It is. As there are other aspects of the app that use the reference in the model successfully.
I just traced out and found out that at the time when i wanted to use it, that it is not yet populated. d On 16-Jan-09, at 3:14 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: > Surely the progress bar is bound to the model, not part of the model > itself? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dnk" <d.k.emailli...@gmail.com> > To: "Flexcoder List" <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 11:14 PM > Subject: [flexcoders] model locator population too late > > > Hi there, > > > > I have an app that uses a model locator class. > > > > Now I have a component that is passed in a reference to another > > component (A progress bar in my case). > > > > Now my problem is that the component is being created prior to the > > model locator being populated with the reference to the progress > bar. > > > > So then obviously my component does not work as expected as it needs > > that reference. > > > > I have no idea on how to get around this issue. I can't populate the > > model locator (manually) any earlier as the progress bar has not yet > > been created. > > > > Ideas? > > > > d