I'll agree that an event dispatching method is sort of the "correct" way to go. But if you want a quick way that will work, you could have a bindable public variable named job_id in both your JobSearch and Timeline3 components and then use data binding to bind the job_id in Timeline3 to the job_id in JobSearch. So that way whenever it's updated in JobSearch it will get updated in Timeline3.
Doug On 15 Mar 2007 11:44:59 -0700, Karl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are a lot of ways to accomplish this, but the best practice would be to fire off an event in JobSearch and have either Main listen on it and call a fuction in timeline3 or use a central event dispatcher and have timeline three listen for it directly. But you could also use application.Application.timeline3.methodName or walk the DOM up, but neither are really advised. Karl Cynergy *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *April Rosequist *Sent:* Thursday, March 15, 2007 1:12 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [flexcoders] I've been looking all day and can't find a solution to this - although I'm sure it's very simple. I have a main application that I'm using a ViewStack in: <mx:ViewStack id="preTrafficNav" width="100%" height="100%" creationPolicy="all" x="10" y="90"> <v:JobSearch id="jobsearch" width="100%" height="100%"/> <v:Timeline3 id="timeline3" width="98%" height="711"/> </mx:ViewStack> This works great. :-) The JobSearch.mxml page has a button that when you click on it, I want to take the job_id variable I've declared and pass it to the Timeline3 page and have that page as the main page. If I put the button on the main.mxml page, everything works fine (except for passing the variable, but it will at least change the page)... but if I put the button on the JobSearch.mxml page it doesn't work. I guess I don't know the syntax for doing that. If someone would help me with the syntax to link from one child to another, when the children are their own mxml pages I would be soooo appreciative. Thanks! April
