definitely - parents call public methods on children, children fire events to inform parents to call methods
i never call parent functions from a child a On 11 May 2010 18:15, jonathan howe <[email protected]> wrote: > As soon as you removeChild on child1, it loses the reference to the parent. > If you want to continue on that tightly-coupled path, I would store a > temporary reference to the parent, then unload child one and use the > temporary reference to parent to load the new child. > > The design I would choose is to create an event that is broadcast from > child1. In the parent, I would add an event listener to child1. When the > event fires, unload 1 and load 2 from the eventlistener in parent. > > -jonathan > > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW) < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Did you mean to say removeChildAt(0)? > > > > Have you tried Loader.unload()? > > > > _ _ _ > > Erik Mattheis > > Senior Web Developer > > Minneapolis > > T 952 346 6610 > > C 612 377 2272 > > > > Weber Shandwick > > Advocacy starts here. > > > > PRWeek Global Agency Report Card 2009 - Gold Medal Winner > > The Holmes Report Global Agency of the Year > > PR News Agency of the Year > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lehr, Theodore > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:15 AM > > To: Flash Coders List > > Subject: [Flashcoders] changing parent from child > > > > I have a container swf - with a child... I want to have a button in the > > child that will change the child in the parent... so if I have: > > > > Parent.swf>Child 1.swf > > > > Once I click on a button in child 1, I will have > > > > Parent.swf>Child 2.swf > > > > I have tried removeChild(0) to take out the original swf, but that only > > seems to work once.... > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > > -- > -jonathan howe > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
