Alex, In addition to my earlier reply:
Alex, I'm not quite sure what to say... 1. I don''t receive any errors, 2. there is a button visually displayed, but it does nothing. I thought I should add the following... As I mentioned in my original post (it was near the very bottom) I have 2 functions in the script block, one of which needs to be run upon initialization. I am wondering if I need to put these functions into and Actionscript class file (??) What do you think? I am very new to this. If I do put these functions in their own AS file how (where) do I call the function(s) to initialize it (them)? Again, many thanks, Tex --- In [email protected], Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Please explain what errors you are getting or what isn't working. > > 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 tex_learning_flex > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] my first Custom Component is not working > > > I created a menubar in my main.mxml file and it works just fine. > > I next created a custom mxml component file where I moved the code, and this is where I am having trouble. > > My original code (while in my main.mxml) looked like this: > > <mx:MenuBar > labelField="@label" > itemClick="menuHandler(event);" > id="menuBarButton" > dataProvider="{menuBarCollection}" > /> > > > with the following excerpted from the script block: > > <mx:Script> > <![CDATA[ > > import mx.collections.*; > import mx.controls.Alert; > import mx.controls.MenuBar; > import mx.controls.menuClasses.IMenuBarItemRenderer; > import mx.controls.menuClasses.MenuBarItem; > import mx.events.MenuEvent; > > > [Bindable] > public var ! menuBarCollection:XMLListCollection; > > public var menubarXML:XMLList = > <> > <menuitem label="Menu bar" data="top"> > <menuitem label="Selection A" type="check" data="A"/> > ! <menuitem label="Selection B" type="check" data="B"/> > <menuitem label="Selection C" type="check" data="C"/> > </menuitem> > </>; > > // Event handler to initialize the MenuBar control. > > public function initCollections():void > { > menuBarCollection = new XMLListCollection(menubarXML); > } > > /// Event handler for the MenuBar control's itemClick event. > > public function menuHandler(event:MenuEvent):void > { > // Don't open the Alert for a menu bar item that > // opens a popup submenu. > if (event.it...@data != "top") > { > Alert.show("Label: " + event.it...@label + "\n" + "Data: " + event.it...@data, "Clicked menu item"); > } > } > > ]]> > </mx:Script> > > > I moved the above to its' own .mxml file and added the following line to main.mxml header data: > > xmlns:comp="components.*" > > in order to access the new component file. > > I now placed the following line! in place of the green< /font> code above: > > <comp:MenuBar /> > > I'm thinking that the problem lies in accessing the initCollections() or the menuHandler(event:MenuEvent) functions, but I don't know if that is the problem or, more importantly, how to get past it if it is... >
