Could be just me, but if that does work it seems like kind of a hack... I think most applications would use something similar to the shell concept. It let's you have a lot of flexibility on what operations to perform on login/logout, and it will work for applications outside of the browser I'm guessing.
Brian On 1/30/07, Tracy Spratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What abour navigateToUrl, pointing to the app itself, using _self as the > target? > > > > Just thinking, haven't tried it. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of brent_trx > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Full Application Reset? > > > > > > > > That sounds like exactly what I need to do. Thanks for the help! > > > Don't feel bad, this left me scratching my head when I encountered it > > as well. I was used to just displaying a titlewindow for a login > > screen, making it modal, and having the application blurred in the > > background. > > > > My way of implementing an application reset was to have a "shell" app > > that handled the instantiation of a login or my main application. When > > the shell app first loads, it displays a Login application... after > > login, the login app gets removed and the main application gets > > created. Upon logout, vice versa. > > > > Hope this helps! > > > > Brian > > > > On 1/30/07, Oleg Filipchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why don't you just refresh the page where your application is > embedded? > > > > > > On 30/01/07, Brent Dearth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This has got to be an obvious implementation, but it's left me > scratching > > > my head. Here's my scenario: > > > > > > > > When user performs a logout in an authenticated flex > application, I would > > > like to fully re-initialize the application back to it's initial > load state > > > (as if the SWF was being accessed anew). All children components > are reset, > > > or ideally destroyed and re-created. There are portions of this > application > > > that may contain sensitive data, and thus, I'm not willing to > leave it to > > > chance by manually calling custom initialization functions on each > component > > > / sub-component / etc. > > > > > > > > I've thought about recursively iterating through the Application's > > > children, looking for these custom methods and executing them when > > > encountered, but there has got to be a cleaner, simpler way that I am > > > missing. I didn't see much on the mx.core.Application > documentation that was > > > relevant, beyond accessing children properties manually. > > > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best regards, > > > Oleg Filipchuk > > > > > > -- > > Brian Dunphy > > > > > > -- Brian Dunphy
