Rather than give a short anser I'd suggest you read Ted Patricks's blog post on acquisition. http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/01/acquisition-within-flex.php
--- In [email protected], "chrycheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it alright for a component to make references to its parent via the parent property? > Wouldn't this go against the principles of encapsulation/abstraction? >
