There are several ways to do this. The simplest to code is to directly access your control by dottting down through the component dom. If your component is directly referenced by id in the main app you can do: myCompId.chkBox1.selected.
This might not be the best term solution, though, depending on how many such references you will have and how flexible and reusable you want your component to be. The most "loosely coupled" design would be to have your component dispatch a custom event when a control is interacted with, and listen for that event in the parent. Extending the Event object will let you include any data you want in the event, such as the states and values of the controls. Between those extremes are other options, such as passing references to the main app into the component, which can then update a data structure(like an array or associative array) in the main app. As I said there are lots of options. Its ok to take the simple code path to start with. Just keep in mind longer term best practices. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Lee Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] How to Use the Value of a Checkbox in a Component Hello, I'm very new to Flex so please excuse my "newbie" question if it seems a bit dumb...but here is my situation: I have a Flex application - let's call the main application file 'Main.mxml' - I have a component file - let's call it 'MyComp.mxml'. Within the 'MyComp.mxml' file I have an <mx:CheckBox id="chkBox1"> object. I am calling the MyComp component from the Main.mxml file. The user can check or uncheck this checkbox and then click on a 'Submit' button that is defined in the Main.mxml file, which will then fire off the processing logic. All I want to do in the processing logic is to be able to examine whether the user has checked the chkBox1 checkbox or not, so that I can pass that value from the Main.mxml file to a web service. But when I try to do a simple binding {chkBox1.selected} from within the Main.mxml file, the error I get is '1120: Access of undefined property chkBox1.' Can anyone help?
