Most folks use the Viewstack's change event. You don't want to wait until they are displayed to update them, you want to do it just before, which is when the viewstack is changing.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andrew.0000 Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 5:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] what is a reliable way to know when your component is re-displayed What is a reliable way to know when your component is displayed? The show event is only called when a component goes from visible=false to true. The creationComplete event is only once. My problem is I have various views (forms basically) nested in all sorts of crazy viewstacks and so on, and I just want them to initialize themselves when they are shown. Problem is I can't really just drive them "from outside" when I show them, cause they always seem null, or parts of them are when I make them visible (usually by some viewstack change) IE defered instantiation issues. I would like the component to throw an event when it is displayed and clear it self out, re-fetch data, etc, but I don't see a good event.
