Thumb owner gets fixed up, but not the track which is parented by a UIComponent which is a child of the Slider
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bryancostanich Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Casting parent to HSlider fails Hi all, I have a custom track for a slider control. in it i'm trying to wire up the change for the parent slider so that when the slider changes, i can do some stuff. i have this in my initialize() method: Slider(owner).addEventListener(SliderEvent.CHANGE, this.parent_change); however, when i run it, i get: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert mx.core::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.controls.sliderClasses.Slider. but the thing is, i stopped and debugged and i saw that the owner was of type HSlider. I thought, well, maybe there is an inheritance issue, so i changed the cast to HSlider temporarily and i still got the error. am i misunderstanding something here? thanks. -b
