So, can something like this be done or not?  I want to define a bunch
of constant values and pass them in as the value for a custom
attribute.  Can I do this?  I don't want to hard code these values.

Thanks!

--- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There used to be warnings.  I can't recall if we've gotten around them
> yet, but you still might be getting hit up by some initialization thing.
> Try looking in your trace output, it might be a runtime warning.
> 
>  
> 
> Also dump out the value of that constant at various time.  It might
> start out 0 and gets set to 2 during component instantiation.
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of gary_mangum
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 3:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Custom Attributes
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your response!
> 
> I am not getting any compiler errors...should I be? Is it illegal to
> assign constant values to an attribute?
> 
> I am trying to create an attribute that is an integer "mask" and then
> use OR-ed together constants to pass in and set the attribute? Isn't
> this possible?
> I'd hate to hard code all of my attribute values to magic numbers if
> it is possible to use constants instead for readability and
> maintainability.
> 
> In my example, myComponent.xml is the class, not MyComponent. 
> 
> --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> , "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote:
> >
> > Aren't you getting compiler warnings about binding to statics?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What is "myComponent"? "MyComponent" is the class, but "myComponent"
> > must be something else?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> ] On
> > Behalf Of gary_mangum
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:53 AM
> > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> 
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Custom Attributes
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Still haven't figured this one out...is this a bug in flex?
> > 
> > --- In [email protected]
> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>
> > , "gary_mangum" <garym@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am unsuccessfully trying to pass an integer constant to a custom
> > > integer attribute of a custom component. Confused yet? Here's an
> > > example of what I am trying to do:
> > > 
> > > Application:
> > > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
> <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> 
> > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > "
> width="700"
> > > height="250" borderStyle="solid" xmlns:ns1="*">
> > > <ns1:myComponent supportsMultiselect="true"
> > > supportTypeMask="{myComponent.TYPE_MASK_TEXT}"/>
> > > </mx:Application>
> > > 
> > > MyComponent:
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > > <mx:Button xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
> <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> 
> > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > ">
> > > <mx:Script>
> > > <![CDATA[
> > > public static const TYPE_MASK_ALL:int = -1;
> > > public static const TYPE_MASK_NONE:int = 0;
> > > public static const TYPE_MASK_IMAGE:int = 1;
> > > public static const TYPE_MASK_TEXT:int = 2;
> > > public static const TYPE_MASK_SPRITE:int = 4;
> > > 
> > > public var supportsMultiselect:Boolean;
> > > public var supportTypeMask:int;
> > > ]]>
> > > </mx:Script>
> > > </mx:Button>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The public var supportTypeMask is never getting set for some reason
> if
> > > I try to pass it one of the constants. If I pass "2" instead of
> > > "{myComponent.TYPE_MASK_TEXT}" it works great.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas about what I am doing wrong here?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help!
> > >
> >
>


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