[flexcoders] Re: apply style in newly created component

[invertedspear]

use the styleName option if your applying a CSS to it:
mychart.styleName = "noGutterChart";

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Vivian Richard <kanps...@...> wrote:
>
> Actually I am trying to apply a very simple style to a chart. My chart is
> inside a
> canvas component and in a separate file. I want to add this chart containing
> canvas in dynamically. This component is like this:
> 
>                     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>                     <mx:Canvas width .....>
>                             <mx:ColumnChart .... id ="myChart">
>                             </mx:ColumnChart>
>                     </mx:Canvas>
> 
> Now I have this simple styles for the the chart which are:
> 
>     .noGutterChart {
>        gutterLeft:0;
>        gutterBottom:0;
>        gutterTop:0;
>        gutterRight:0;
>     }
> 
>     Now as I am trying to create the component dunamically and want to apply
> the
>     style to the chart I get the error message.
> 
>               var myComp:ChartComp = new ChartComp;
>               myComp.myChart.setStyle("styleName","noGutterChart");
> 
>     This gives me the error message that I cannot access a function of a
> null object.