Hi,
I have a custom class (SlideShow) that I'm including in an MXML document.
In the same MXML document, I add several UIComponents as children of SlideShow.
I would like the SlideShow class to be able to access those UIComponents (e.g.
change the text of a Text object). Right now, I am stepping through children
to get the references to each UI object. But a change in the layout will break
my application. Is there a way to get a child/subchild/subsubchild/etc without
trawling through the hierarchy (sort of like the double dot operator in XML
parsing)?
Here is my example:
<ss:SlideShow id="slideshow" width="800" height="600">
<mx:HBox id="my_hbox">
<mx:Text id="my_txt" text="Description Goes Here" />
</mx:HBox>
</ss:SlideShow>
To get the Text object, I am currently doing:
var my_hbox:HBox = HBox(getChildByName("main_hbox"));
var my_txt:Text = Text(my_hbox.getChildByName("my_txt"));
But it's clear that this is not a good way to do it because if I want to change
the MXML code (make the HBox a VBox or add more HBoxes, etc) then the "path" to
the Text object will change.
I'm looking for a solution that is more like:
var my_txt:Text = Text(getChild("my_txt"));
which would return a reference to the Text object irrespective of where it
lives in the child hierarchy.
Thank you very much in advance for your help,
James
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