It has been instantaited and added as a child to Application (unless it is a true downloadprogressbar preloader) but the entire application is not on stage yet.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Wills Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Acessing stage Height Hmm... sorry newbie here. So it's returning null because "this", the _preloader, hasn't actually been instantiated yet? But if this were called after applicationComplete then it would be fine? Michael Alex Harui wrote: There is an evil nasty trick in Flex that your components aren't on the display list until the applicationComplete event. We did that to get a measurable performance gain at app startup. The stage is still available, but as systemManager.stage. -Alex ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of patricklemiuex Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Acessing stage Height I have a sprite, it's added to the display... I understand that any display object has access to the stage Object. Can someone clear the confusion for me, what's the deal here, I get a null error trying to access the stage height... I've even tried to call another method after addChild to make sure that it's already in the display. My preloader extends sprite (of course). This is baffling. var _preloader = new _preloader(); addChild(_preloader); _preloader.getHeight(); inside my preloader... public function getHeight(){ trace (this.stage.stageHeight); //returns null object reference??? Thanks, Patrick
