Hi Manish, thanks for your reply. Please see my comments below. > Your custom shell can be a subclass of ViewStack itself. You can add > the forward-back buttons into the chrome area of the component. I > think either Accordion or TabNavigator extends ViewStack, so you can > look at how that component is implemented and do the same.
That's definitely one possibility and I'm exploring it right now. However, don't you think that I actually _must_ (not _can_) follow this approach? I'm struggling to find any other plausible way to do the shell. I would love to hear of any other approaches that cross your mind (I'm still fairly new to Flex and maybe missing something). > The child elements your component uses for its own purpose (like > back-forward buttons) are known as the component's "chrome". You add > the chrome using the allChildren (or rawChildren, whatever) API. > > > Is there any possibility to extend ViewStack and enjoy the > > benefits of design view/MXML at the same time? > > Not sure about this one, but I think you should be able to enjoy > design view for a ViewStack subclass as well. > If I understand this correctly, we can't leverage our designers' skills and all the visual design stuff will need to be done in ActionScript. Am I correct? If so, now you see why I would like to know of any other possible approaches to this shell development thing. Thanks, Borek
