geoff is dead on. There are a probably 100 ways to do what you want done. states/transitions, event listeners, adding and removing the children via actionscript and leaving in your initApp().
But, yeah, the least amnt of code (depending on the framework you're using) would probably be adding this to your mxml: show="initApp()" --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "gedavies" <gedav...@...> wrote: > > I have a series of tabs and I use the "show" event in the individual > components. Then I keep a "needsReloading" boolean value that is based upon > event data from a controller. If the tab is selected, the show event kicks > in and the data is reloaded based upon the needsReloading boolean. > > Not sure if that is what you are looking for but I hope it helps. > > Geoff. > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Wally Kolcz" <wkolcz@> wrote: > > > > My application uses a ToggleButtonBar with a viewstack as it's > > dataprovider. When the app is first loaded and each component is called in > > the stack, it loads the component and runs it's initApp() on the > > creationComplete. However when you go back it's already loaded and doesn't > > run the initApp() and pull new external data. > > > > Is there a way to automatically reload the component each time a generated > > button is pushed in the ToggleButtonBar? > > >
