<mx:CheckBox id="checkbox1" ... />
is referred to in the <mx:Script> block as: checkbox1 this.checkbox1 this["checkbox1"] as in: trace(checkbox1.selected) // get the selected property There is no function since they are actually properties on the document. Subdocuments use parentDocument to talk to parent documents. -Alex ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of carl_steinhilber Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] AS/Flex equivilent of getElementById() ?? Given a string that represents the id of a given component, is there a way to get a handle to that component? Something like: var myCheckboxName:String = "checkbox1"; var myActualCheckbox:CheckBox = getElementById(myCheckboxName); myActualCheckbox.selected = true; I figured if nothing else I'd be able to eval() the string... but then I remembered that AS3 deprecated eval(). Anyone know of a way to do this? Thanks in advance! -Carl
