Re: [flexcoders] Custom ComboBox Class issue

[Warren]

I found what is causing the problem.  ComboBoxSuper failed to work when the 
arrowButtonWidth wasn't set in the mxml.  I never set it in my custom class 
because it seemed to be there already.  There must be some default parameters 
that the mx:ComboBox pulls in and that my ComboBox version was inheriting 
without me knowing about it.  ComboBoxSuper didn't inherit these values and 
fails silently.

Sigh.  I've fought my way through the debugger and it is way beyond me.  
Something is setting the default styles and parameters for a combobox but I 
can't figure out where it is or how to force my ComboBoxSuper to pick them up.  
I hate relying on using the same class name...  I'm reluctant to create an 
arrowButtonStyle in the ComboBoxSuper constructor -- that may fix that problem 
but I don't know what other defaults I'm missing because I can't extend the 
ComboBox.

Anyone have a suggestion?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Warren 
  To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 12:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Custom ComboBox Class issue


    

  OK.  I read up on manifest files and gave it a go.

  I had no manifest in my library project so I created one

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <componentPackage>
      <component id="ComboBoxSuper" class="myClassLibrary.ComboBoxSuper"/>
      <component id="ComboBox" class="myClassLibrary.ComboBox"/>
  </componentPackage>

  I added this to the library compiler, created a namespace URL 
http://myLibrary, and recompiled

  I changed my application from 

  xmlns:myCL="myClassLibrary.*"  to 
  xmlns:myCL="http://myLibrary";  and recompiled.  Got no errors but it still 
doesn't work.

  I must be missing something once more.  Can you elaborate a bit more about 
what is wrong and what I need to do to fix it?


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Vaibhav Seth 
    To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:18 AM
    Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Custom ComboBox Class issue


      
    its a problem with the namespace.
    check out for manifest.xml

    Thanks,
    Vaibhav Seth.




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    To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
    From: warrenony...@charter.net
    Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:17:16 -0600
    Subject: [flexcoders] Custom ComboBox Class issue

      


    Yesterday I posted some code which fixes a bug and adds some features to 
the ComboBox.  Because the ComboBox class has private functions in it, I was 
forced to copy the code into my own class and modify it.  No problems 
except.....

    I had named my class ComboBox simply because I copied the code directly 
from the sdk.  Yesterday I decided it might be a better idea to name it 
something different to distinguish it from the one in the sdk.  I went into my 
class and renamed it to ComboBoxSuper. 

    Now it doesn't work some of the time.  If I use ComboBoxSuper as straight a 
mxml tag, it fails.  If I create one in AS and then addChild it to a container, 
it works fine.

    I don't get it.  Can anyone explain this behavior?

    Warren