I was able to get it to work by adding a listener for "click" but I don't understand why I had to do that.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what was going on? Thanks, Jack --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jack_freud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still pretty new to making components. Basically this one is like > an image that navigates to a URL in HTML-land, except that I want to > make it so you can set its text and URL as properties of the > component. Seems to be utterly simple. > > But I can't get it to hear the click event... > > It extends VBox and contains a label. It has a member variable of a > URL and a click event so that clicking on the box (or the label) > should navigate to that url. > > "click" does not show up in the auto-complete, but I get no errors > when I implement it, and I see click there in the class hierarchy. > > But nothing happens. Breakpoints don't stop, nothing happens. > > What's got me puzzled is that in the mxml where I used this component, > if I put code for the click event, it works flawlessly. Of course I > could leave it there in the app, but naturally I'd prefer to > encapsulate it so it has its own data and behaviors like any good > little object. > > Is there something obvious I don't know? > > Thanks, > > Jack >
