Hello, I'm struggling on wrapping my mind around the best way to architect a particular feature i am developing. i have gotten my code to work, but i want to improve it to make it work using a more stable and scaleble design.
QUESTION: Now, the problem is when a user rolls the mouse over a custom MXML compoenent which already has a Move effect applied to it, I want the MXML component to stop moving. The custom MXML component has a Label, Text Area,and other components inside of it, but the mouse roll over Event is caught by the inner most UITextField component. Inside the Event Handler i have a very hacky way to stop the Move Effect: event.target.parent.parent.activeEffects[0].pause(); 1. how do i make the custom MXML component catch the event instead of the UITextField buried deep inside the component 2. how do i reference the MoveEffect for the MXML component without having to use parent.parent.activeEffects[0] since that is basically hardcoding. Any help would be greatly appreciated. For more information on my situation, i've posted some info: GOAL: the feature is simple, i have a custome MXML component that has a Label and a TextArea field inside of a Canvas. My flex application makes HttpService to my server and returns data which i put into an ArrayCollection. for each element in the ArrayCollection initialize a new custom MXML component, I bind it to my custom MXML component which i initialize and apply an effect to the MXML component so that the component moves across the screen in various places. The component should stop moving when a user rolls his/her mouse over the component. Thanks for all of your help! --Deven
