Hey mike, I received your posts after I posted that. Thanks for the info though. very helpful. It's difficult starting to understand the change from a movieclip-based view architecture where I would create classes that push to a view and now this architecture.
Baby steps... --- In [email protected], "Michael Schmalle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > danfrap767 > > Have you been reading my posts? From the thread it dosn't look like you are > seeing them or something. > > You need to create a skin class from ProgrammaticSkin. > > Subclass it. > > Peace, Mike > > > On 8/11/06, danfrap767 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I thought so too, as it even says in the addChild for a Canvas > > documentation that it takes a display object. > > > > but for some reason when I test and after attaching the canvas I then > > attach the sprite I still get that same error: > > > > > > "TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert > > flash.display::[EMAIL PROTECTED] to mx.core.IUIComponent." > > > > Why would it try to convert that? > > > > this is the bit of code from the function , and the drawn bg and the > > button show up totally fine. > > > > contentBg = new Canvas(); > > contentBg.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000); > > contentBg.graphics.lineStyle(2, 0xFFFFFF); > > > > contentBg.graphics.drawRoundRect(0, 0, 150, 400, 10, 10); > > contentBg.graphics.endFill(); > > addChild(contentBg); > > > > changeButton = new Button(); > > changeButton.label = returnData.buttons.button.label; > > changeButton.move(30, 30); > > changeButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, someFunction); > > contentBg.addChild(changeButton); > > > > mySprite = new Sprite(); > > mySprite.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF); > > mySprite.graphics.drawRoundRect(300, 0, 150, 400, 10, 10); > > mySprite.graphics.endFill(); > > contentBg.addChild(mySprite); > > > > any ideas? > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > > "dadrobson" <jim.robson@> wrote: > > > > > > You should be able to use Canvas.addChild(Sprite), because it takes a > > > DisplayObject, and Sprite does exted DisplayObject. > > > > > > I don't have time to test it right now, but based on the inheritance > > > outlined in the docs, it looks like it should work. I'll try to run a > > > test later; meanwhile, if you have a chance to test it, please let me > > > know what you learn. > > > > > > -Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > What goes up, does come down. > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
