Try inheriting from SimpleApplication - you still will get all mixins for css and static linkage for generated code, but less of the framework initialization - you should be able to create screen and have controls there. Of course, fewer things depending on the global managers will work later on ...
Regards, Anatole Tartakovsky FarataSystems On 11/30/07, Dave Glasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to create an Application in pure Actionscript, by > subclassing mx.core.Application, and when I run it I get: > > TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null > object reference. > at mx.core::UIComponent/getStyle > ()[C:\dev\flex_201_ja\sdk\frameworks\mx\core\UIComponent.as:7095] > ...etc. > > The source file is basically an empty shell, with nothing but a > constructor that calls super(). I'm not adding any children or setting any > properties. It's not in the top-level package, if that makes any difference. > > Is what I'm trying to do impossible, at least without adding some amount > of setup code that is normally generated by the MXML preprocessor and isn't > documented anywhere? > > >
