Thanks, looks like too much trouble for what it's worth...but still glad
for the insight.
-- Keith H --
www.keith-hair.net
Josh McDonald wrote:
>
> You would need to modify the compiler. MXMLC looks at what's inside
> your {} brackets, takes a (usually correct) guess as to which property
> chains should be watched in order to fire the binding, and then
> creates a new function with a name like __binding_123() or something
> in the .AS file it is constructing from the containing document. In
> order to add "self", you'd have to inspect the soon-to-be-function,
> and replace "self" with the id (field name) for whatever tag/element
> you're compiling.
>
> But what should "self" be? The enclosing MXML element? What if it
> represents a field, or a class, and not an instance? And what about
> when you're doing bindings that are elements of their own right,
> rather than attributes of an element? And how would we handle
> repeaters? <mx:Component>? [DefaultProperty]?
>
> As you can see, there'd be a *lot* of situations to evaluate, and a
> great many edge cases to boot.
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> Hello Amy,
>
> How could I "monkey patch" in Flex that I could use "self" in the
> brackets?
>
> This is all I could think of but I don't know how I could use that in
> the Flex framework....
> UIComponent.prototype.self=function():UIComponent
> {
> return this;
> }
>
> If the solution is more trouble than what it's worth...them I'm just
> getting lazy. :)
>
>
>
>
> -- Keith H --
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>
> Amy wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:flexcoders%2540yahoogroups.com>>, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Pat,
> > > Sorry I used a bad example earlier, yes I could do that with
> events
> > but
> > > I meant like using it in other properties that
> > > "event" is not available. .
> > >
> > > Here's a better example situation where I'd wish for a
> > shortcut "self"
> > > reference to each component.
> > > For example if I wanted to assign the current component's
> height in a
> > > Binding expression for the current component's width property.
> > >
> > > <mx:CheckBox width="{self.height}" />
> >
> > You could monkey patch UIComponent and give it a "me" property.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> >
>
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