Hello!
I'm getting started with a custom Flex component (based on
ComboBox), and running into a bit of difficulty.
I bought, the "developing rich clients with macromedia flex" book,
and have to say it comes very close in helping but I'm still stuck.
BTW thanks Steve & Alistair for writing a great book.
I've developed a previous Flash application that has a custom
dropdown component which already takes the following XML to
initialize itself. (XML generated outside of the Flash
application), I'd like to take the exact same XML and wrap it into a
Custom Flex Component, but XML structure below is presenting some
problems...
One of the issues is that while I can create a class named Prefix to
match the <Prefix> tag...The Prefix class cannot take attributes on
itself, I get an error message if I try, "Property elements may not
have attributes.". I would have to have them in another child tag.
This is somewhat like the Portfolio and Account Objects described on
page 61 of the book, except my "Account" tag was not embedded in
a "CurrentAccount" tag.
I understand I could wrap these in either my own tags where the
attributes would be in another child tag, or <mx:object> tags, or
put the whole Component XML in an <mx:xml> tag, but all of these
require changing my existing XML structure which I don't really want
to do.
I'm also having trouble with the <Name> tag in a similar fashion. I
tried using an instance variable of type object, or string, but that
won't work, I pretty much need a class for it, but since there is no
attribute holding it's value, I'm stuck there as well.
Please help!
Thanks,
Jason
<DropDownBox Width="86" Scrolling="false"
Id="DropDownBox_OFGTZRQZVUI" height="30" >
<Tooltip></Tooltip>
<Name>myDropdown</Name>
<Value></Value>
<SelectedKey>b</SelectedKey>
<Prefix prefix_visible="true" prefix_style="GRAPHIC" />
<Items>
<DropDownItem>
<Value>a</Value>
<Key>a</Key>
<Action ActionUrl="myframe1.xml"
ActionTarget="Frame1" />
</DropDownItem>
<DropDownItem>
<Value>b</Value>
<Key>b</Key>
<Action ActionUrl="URL2.xml"
ActionTarget="Frame1" />
</DropDownItem>
</Items>
</DropDownBox>
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