A child can only have one parent at a time. I would profile the component and see if you can make it lighter.
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 Sébastien Tromp Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Reuse same instance of UIComponent in different views Hello, In my application, I have created an extension of a Canvas: class A extends Canvas This component is rather big in memory, and needs to be displayed in several panels of the application at the same time. For instance, as a child of another Canvas and as a child of a TitleWindow simultaneously. Currently, I recreate an instance of A every time I need it to be displayed. Indeed, I tried to create a common instance (using a view locator pattern) and reuse it everywhere in my application; however if I do this, when setting this unique instance as a child of the TitleWindow, the "parent" property is then sets to the TItleWindow, and not to the Canvas anymore. As a result, it seems the same component can never be reused. Do you have a solution to this? Am I using an incorrect approach to components reuse? Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- Seb
