So what's wrong with using the "initialized" property? From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cwicky99 Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Programmatically Determine if FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE has been dispatche
So, say I missed the creation_complete event....or I can't listen for it. there is no programmatic way to ask a component if it is complete right? I know UIComponent ( or something like that ) has the "initialized" property. --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "florian.salihovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah forgot to tell about that one. > > Or delete the reference manually. There have been some discussion about weakReferences > when registering eventlisteners.But that's another topic... > > Best regards. > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Josh > McDonald" <dznuts@> wrote: > > > > Any time you're going to create a Dictionary to keep track of things like > > this, make sure to use weak references, by calling new Dictionary(true) or > > your app is likely to leak memory like a sieve :) > > > > And you might be able to get away with UIComponent.initialized, depending on > > what it is you're actually trying to achieve. > > > > -Josh > > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM, florian.salihovic < > > florian.salihovic@> wrote: > > > > > One way to do so: > > > > > > private var dictionaty:Dictionary = new Dictionary(); > > > private var button:Button = new Button(); > > > > > > protected function initializeComponent():void > > > { > > > this.button.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, > > > onCreationComplete); > > > this.dictionary[this.button] = false; > > > } > > > > > > function onCreationComplete(event:Event):void > > > { > > > if (event.target == this.button) > > > { > > > dictionary[this.button] = true; > > > } > > > > > > Working this way you can allways test, wether the component-creation has > > > been > > > completed or not. > > > > > > Best regards from Germany > > > > > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > "cwicky99" <codecraig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I need to programmatically determine if a component has dispatched > > > > FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE so that I know it has finished being > > > > created as well as all of it's children. > > > > > > > > I don't see a "creationCompleted" property, is there some other way to > > > > tell? I know I can listen for the event I am wondering if there is > > > > some other way to tell that it had already happened. So I can have > > > > logic similar: > > > > > > > > if ( comp.creationCompleted ) > > > > { > > > > // do stuff to a child > > > > comp.fooView.fooButton.addEventListener(...); > > > > } > > > > else > > > > { > > > > comp.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, handleCreation); > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > > > Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! > > > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > > :: 0437 221 380 :: josh@ > > :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ > > >
