The problem I run into with rolling a new viewstack, is that many of the situations where I want to use this require a viewstack, so I have to extend it.
--- In [email protected], "reflexactions" <reflexacti...@...> wrote: > > Out of the box when using deferred instantiation the ViewStack was designed > to only support animations on a child container 'hide' not 'show'. > > If you only slide 'out' it should work fine, if you want to slide 'in' or > both 'in' and 'out' you need to roll you own version of ViewStack and build > in the support. > > This is something we have done, though I can't really help with the code > because of copyright. > > You need to override selectedIndex, commitSelectedIndex, and commitProperties > as well as add a function to init the selected child container. > > Its not really difficult, you should take a look at the adobe code in the > ViewStack and basically emulate that. > > > --- In [email protected], Alex Harui <aharui@> wrote: > > > > I still believe that all children of a viewstack are created no matter the > > creationpolicy. CreationPolicy affects the grandchildren. > > CreationComplete on the child is long gone. Try listening to SHOW as well, > > and call validateNow on the entire viewstack, not just the child. Children > > get their size from the parent. > > > > Alex Harui > > Flex SDK Developer > > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > Behalf Of dfalling > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:09 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [flexcoders] Still struggling with creation complete > > > > > > > > I have a viewstack that animates its children by sliding them in and out. > > It works fine when the creationPolicy is set to all, but when it's set to > > auto, uncreated views slide in blank, then render themselves. > > > > I thought that I could fix this by checking to see if a view has been > > created yet (the only way I could figure out how to do this is > > mx_internal::numChildrenCreated), and then trigger its creation with > > createComponentFromDescriptor. For some reason this isn't working though- > > my creationComplete function is never called...what am I doing wrong? > > > > override public function set selectedIndex(value:int):void > > { > > _lastIndex = selectedIndex; > > > > if(value != _lastIndex && value >= 0 && _lastIndex >= 0) > > { > > _newIndex = value; > > var targetChild:Container = getChildAt(value) as Container; > > if (targetChild.mx_internal::numChildrenCreated < 0) > > { > > targetChild.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE,child_creation,false,0,true); > > createComponentFromDescriptor(targetChild.descriptor,true); > > targetChild.validateNow(); > > return; > > } > > else > > { > > slideTabs(_lastIndex,_newIndex); > > } > > } > > } > > > > private function child_creation(event:Event):void > > { > > slideTabs(_lastIndex,_newIndex); > > } > > >
