To the adobe developers, I have found that I can extend the simpler display classes without much issue, I have really only had issues with sub-classing the Form based components. For our project (and probably many Flex projects) the form concept is a strong one and the ability for designers to layout input screens very quickly with Form, FormItem and FormHeader is fantastic. I want to extend these classes primarily to preserve the integration with Flex Builder. Maybe trying to make these classes infinitely extensible is the incorrect approach. Maybe a tool that would allow me to integrate my components more tightly in Flex Builder would be a better solution.
Specifically when someone drags an NForm on the page I want flex builder to automatically wrap other components in an NFormItem etc. --Sean ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Schmalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:42:00 AM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Are other developers hesitant to extend existing classes in Flex? > However, the indicator is added as a child to rawChildren, which is public. This means you could reach it without problems. No, that is not true. You know why? They didn't name it! That should be a requirement of all composites Aodbe people. You need to name every instance, this way if us devs do want access to it we can get it. EECOLOR, as far as the indicator, you would have to call getStyle(), create the class instance, loop through all the rawChildren and do an is comparison. This is just to get a reference, it sucks. But, Is possible through that hack, I haven't tried it though. Peace, Mike On 13 Mar 2007 03:10:38 -0700, EECOLOR < [EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: I ran into the same problem when i wanted to align the label to the left. However, i found that there is a reference to the label in the mx_internal namespace. override protected function updateDisplayList( unscaledWidth: Number, unscaledHeight: Number):void { super.updateDisplay List(unscaledWid th, unscaledHeight) ; var labelAlign_str: String = getStyle("labelAlign"); if (labelAlign_ str == "left" && label.length) { var vm:EdgeMetrics = viewMetricsAndPaddi ng; var labelObject: UIComponent = mx_internal: :labelObject as UIComponent; labelObject. move(vm.left, labelObject. y); }; }; This however does not work for you, since there is no equivalant for the indicator. However, the indicator is added as a child to rawChildren, which is public. This means you could reach it without problems. Greetz Erik On 3/12/07, Sean Sell <rough68fish@ yahoo.com > wrote: Alex, I understand exactly what you mean about testing requirements for public method and I can really only speak to the FormItem class, but here's my experience.. . The first thing I wanted to do was change where the required field asterisk is displayed; and put it in front of the label. No big deal right. To do it all I need to do is override updateDisplayList and move: // Position the "required" indicator. displayIndicator( left, y); left += indicatorGap; above // Position our label. if (labelObj) {... But there are calls to about 16 private methods or values within this function which I would have to re-write to make this work. Ironically I think all of those would work as written if I could just call them. --Sean Recent Activity 130 New Members Visit Your Group SPONSORED LINKS Software development tool Software development Software development services Home design software Software development company Cool Websites Know a good site? Share and vote on Bix.com! Y! Toolbar Get it Free! easy 1-click access to your groups. Yahoo! Groups Start a group in 3 easy steps. 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