I'm working on an app that has the need for several popup "item editor" kind of windows.
Example: there are people in a list, and when you double click one of them, you get a popup (TitleWindow) with a form with fields for (and populated with the selected person's) FirstName, LastName, ... and save and cancel buttons. I'm also trying to use the same popup for entering a NEW person, so that the popup comes up with blank form items. My first approach was to make an MXML component based off of TitleWindow, since I have a lot of form elements and layout to add. But then I ran into the problem. I want to pass in a Person instance to populate the form (if I'm in edit mode) or else not pass in anything (null) if I'm in create-new mode. In AS, I'd have the contructor accept a p:Person = null parameter and that would be that. So.. my question finally. Is there a way / technoque to pass in "contructor" types of parameters to an MXML component, or do I need to suck it up and write the class in AS and deal with all the "addChild's necessary to create the layout (oh, and it has states)? Thanks! -- TC
