--- In [email protected], "Manish Jethani" <manish.jeth...@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:45 PM, endrone endrone <endr...@...> wrote: > > >> It's either the TabNavigator's 'change' (your current method) or its > >> children's 'initialize'. It's hard to say without knowing more about the > >> sort of initialization you're doing here. > > > > I'm not using states. > > Assume you have 2 categories who have more or less the same settings. > > When you click a category, you get a dynamic generated settings page. > > You remember the chosen category so you can add dynamically the correct > > components. > > (assume I have different tabs, eg Settings, Content, About) > > If I choose another category, I need to reinitialize that settings page. > > > > Now it's done with catching the change event. > > Are there other ways? > > Okay, I think I understand it better now. So you have different views > for each category. Unless the views really need to be dynamically > generated, you don't have to do it. You could create different views > like CategoryASettings, CategoryBSettings, CategoryAContent, > CategoryBContent, CategoryAAbout, ... and use them in the following > manner: > > <TabNavigator> > <ViewStack label="Settings"> > <CategoryASettings /> > <CategoryBSettings /> > <CategoryCSettings /> > </ViewStack> > <ViewStack label="Content"> > <CategoryAContent /> > <CategoryBContent /> > <CategoryCContent /> > </ViewStack> > ... > </TabNavigator> > > You can combine this with states so that the relevant views are > automatically selected when you switch category. That, I would say, is > the Flex way. But you might have performance concerns here depending > on how many different categories you have ... so think about that. > > If you must generate the views dynamically every time a tab is > selected, then I think the change event is the way to go.
I have an example here that shows "reparenting" a component into the various tabs of an accordion that might be similar to what is needed here: http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2008/09/groupingcollection-example- featuring.html
