Ahhhh.. got it, thanks Alex.
-b
--- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
