Hi All,
First, thanks very much to all the great ideas that were thrown at
me on this one...in the end, we were all very much over complicating this...
Quite simply, from the dashboard, in each SWFLoader, I simply add a
deeplink (probably not needed but...) with a simple name-pair. I.E.
SWFLoader.source = widget.source + "#project=" + projectName;
Then in the widgets, I simply access this.url, which is unique to
each instantiation of the widget and simply substring the url to get the
projectName...
var urlString:String = String(this.url);
projectName = urlString.substring(urlString.search("=")+1);
This works perfectly and gets the data that is specific to the
tab....and in this way, my users only have to endure one data load event
instead of multiply recurring events every time they change tabs.
Thanks!
Adrian
Amy wrote:
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Tracy Spratt" <tspr...@...> wrote:
> Using a model and events is probably "best", but you can also go
> straight through dom references. Listeners can be added to
dynamically
> created components, so you would not need specific, named references
to
> the child swfs.
Note that you probably want to still keep references to your swfs
somewhere, so that you can remove the listeners if you need to make
sure they get garbage collected. You'll probably want to do this in an
Array or ArrayCollection so that it can expand with the number of swfs
you create.
Or you can just use one swf and move it around :)
HTH;
Amy
