Try... <local:myContainerComponent id="containerComponent" imageVar="@Embed(source='myTestImage.jpg')"/>
--- In [email protected], "Christopher McArthur" <cmcart...@...> wrote: > > I have a component, that has a property of type Image. I need to assign > a new Image component to it. this is trivial to do in action script. > But, how do I do it in MXML? > > > > Example: > > mxml: > > <local:myContainerComponent id="containerComponent"/> > > > > actionscript: > > var myImage:Image = new Image("myTestImage.jpg"); > > containerComponent.imageVar = myImage; > > > > > > Is there anyway to do that creation of the image, and assignment purely > from MXML? The image cant be a child of anything else, so I cant just > declare it randomly somewhere in the same container. > > > > > > For context, im using the Flash Component Kit, and the > myContainerComponent is a container exported from flash a > "mx.flash.ContainerMovieClip". And it requires you to assign a component > to its "content" property. Ideally, id like to create and assign this > content component using mxml only. >
