I had no idea that SimpleApplication existed; it's not in my Flex 2.01 api
docs. But then I looked in the source tree and indeed, there is an
mx.core.SimpleApplication class. But the source reveals that it's just an empty
subclass of MovieClip, so it can't be used in place of the Application class. I
wouldn't be able to add any UIComponents to the display list without errors,
since it seems that a UIComponent's entire ancestor chain must be made up
entirely of other UIComponents.
Anatole Tartakovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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?
