OK well I'm I guess one or two lines from making the 'simple' version
work. When I hard-code the following in my thumbChanged method, it
works...well if loading the same image no matter what thumb you click
means it works LOL:
Application.application.galleries_module1.imagetabs.bigImage.source="a
ssets/galleries/CD2.jpg";
But when I try to grab the proper {data.piclink} which corelates to
the thumblink after clicking (i.e., the right image in the XML file),
I get, well, nothing, not even an error LOL...but no image
either...it DOES make the broken image link go blip, but it doesn't
load. Here's what I am trying to do, but please keep in mind, with
this sort of thing, I still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing
yet (the source code in the HBox works, but my thumbChanged method is
frying):
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.containers.HBox;//???
import mx.core.Application;
//import mx.core.Application;
[Bindable]
public var selectedThumb:XML;
// Event handler for the Tree control change event.
public function thumbChanged(event:Event):void {
Application.application.galleries_module1.imagetabs.bigImage.s
ource="{data.piclink}";
Application.application.galleries_module1.thumbloader.thumbSer
vice.send();
//Application.application.galleries_module1.imagetabs.bigImage
.source="{data.piclink}";
//selectedHBoxItem=HBox(event.target).selectedThumb
as XML;
//Application.application.thumbService.lastResult.galle
ry.piece.piclink.url=selectedThumb.piclink;
// parentDocument.thumbloader.thumbService.send();
//Application.application.thumbService.send();
};
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HBox click="thumbChanged(event);"
id="thumbbox" width="100%" height="100%"
verticalAlign="middle" verticalGap="0"
verticalScrollPolicy="off" horizontalAlign="center"
backgroundColor="#000000" backgroundAlpha="0.0">
<mx:Image id="img" source="{data.thumblink}"
horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle" height="75%"/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:Canvas>
As usual, the source is available if I'm clear as mud...I'd really
appreciate any help here, because I've spent all weekend on it and
I'm just totally lost:
http://www.shawngibson.com/faceitphoto.ca/shawn/index.html
(click the "Galleries button", anything else will probably blow up...)
Shawn
--- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yes, also Application.application will give you a reference to the
> top-level application. As I said in my other post, there are many
ways.
>
> Tracy
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of shawn.gibson
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Unbelievably embarassing question - making
> components talk (and modules) amongst
>
>
>
> I'm sure it goes deeper than this (if you'll pardon the pun), but
if
> you add 'parentDocument' to your parent (i.e.,
> parentDocument.thumbloader.etc you get the kind of thing I'm
hoping,
> at least for component-to-component-from-within-the-same-module.
>
> I typed the name of the error message into the help screen. Go
> figure :S
>
> Shawn
>
> --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%
40yahoogroups.com>
> , "shawn.gibson" <shawn.gibson@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to Tracy's earlier help, I was able to get at least the
ugly
> > (i.e., my) version of HTTPService going (and I'll revisit it to
> > Tracy's specs one I figure this here problem out), but in order
for
> > me to do it, I had to de-compartmentalize all my code. In other
> > words, I have originally been using an approach where each
> > major 'page' was a module loaded into a state of my main app, and
> > each major chunk of a module was made of a custom component (the
> > entire Tree, it's code, the little stuff; or the entire thumbnail
> > with all it's itemrendering in a HorizontalList...etc)- nice
> > separation of code, easy to understand in 6 months, and no 6,000
> line
> > files. Also offered me a fighting chance in the future to figure
> out
> > model, control, and view separation.
> >
> > But for me to get (for example) the tree component I made to
> > communicate with the thumbnail component, both housed in the
> > galleries module, I had to hardcode the components back into the
> > module (i.e., they are no longer components), so the module is
now
> > one big-ass file that has no components, they are right in the
> file.
> >
> > I can't go on like this, it's just too ugly. As a designer and a
> poet
> > wannabe, that sucks LOL.
> >
> > But I can't for the life of me get things to talk amongst
> themselves,
> > say my module has 3 custom components doing their things...how do
I
> > access something in one component from another component?
> >
> > I became very afraid when I realized there doesn't seem to be any
> > kind of AS2/Flash dummy-movie approach - loadMovie ('thisthing')
> into
> > dummyclip instance 'whatever' and suddenly you just say
> > whatever.thisthing.stuff, and you've gained access to everything.
> In
> > other words, you can jump up and down as long as you know the
> scope.
> > I haven't a clue what the equivalent is in Flex 2.
> >
> > It's very embarassing. I refuse to get through this weekend
without
> > figuring it out. I'm not botching my gallery project by having 5-
6
> > modules (as I DO want) but with thousands of hardcoded chunks
> within
> > them, when each module should by rights have nice piecemealed
> (sorry
> > for the word) custom components doing their thing from their own
> file
> > and from there communicating with each other. I need to use
> > components in the modules for my own sanity, and even worse, how
do
> I
> > get one module to talk to another module's objects, functions,
etc.?
> >
> > In a word, you can't go from:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > srv.send();
> >
> > ...strip it out into a component and then call the id of the
> parent,
> > i.e.:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > thumbloader.srv.send();
> >
> > ...you get "Access of undefined property thumbloader" for your
> > troubles...
> >
> > You can't back up a generation like you could with Flash. Or if
you
> > can, I'm missing big bits of the puzzle.
> >
> > Any suggestions, other than take a chill-pill?
> >
> > Thanks guys,
> >
> > Shawn
> >
>
