----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:38 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Rippling through state changes


> --- In [email protected], "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I have some custom components (nothing special) that are displaying
> product
>> information. essentially I can use the same component for seprate
> purposes:
>>
>> Product info (each product can be added to the shopping cart),
> shopping cart
>> (each product can be removed from the cart). Within the main
> component, I
>> have TileLists or datagrdids with item renderers. When the custom
> component
>> flips between states, I need the individual items contained therein
> to
>> switch state too.
>>
>> I'm trying to think of the most elegant way to do this. Any thoughs
> 9apart
>> from the fact I'll go Doh! real soon now).
>>
>> I've tended to avoid states, but seem to be embracing them big time
> now..
>
> I'd look at the Button code and see how it uses stateful skins.  And
> I've found that using styles for this kind of thing works pretty
> well.  You can either extend TileList to pass through the appropriate
> style into the component or you can look at my TileList_withStyle
> component, available at http://flexdiary.blogspot.com.  Or you can
> just change the style declaration for your custom component on the
> fly to change the applicable style/state at runtime.

Thanks Amy.

> HTH;
>
> Amy
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> --
> Flexcoders Mailing List
> FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt
> Alternative FAQ location: 
> https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847
> Search Archives: 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups 
> Links
>
>
>
> 

Reply via email to