Thanks. No, and in fact I can trace out a value it's typeof object and
has an internal name same as my app. I was told by someone on this list
a while back to do it that way.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
L&LD GT&O
eTools & Multimedia Research & Development
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Application.application.container?
Didn't you get an exception accessing application.container? I
don't think we have such a property.
You can draw on the graphics layer of any UIComponent, but it
may be obscured by children. You should just be able to pass in
Spite(Application.application)
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Application.application.container?
OK - not understanding something here.
Application.application.container? I'm trying to figure out the base UI
class I can add sprite children to. I have a class which draws objects,
and I want those objects to be drawn in my flex app. So here is the
simplified version of the code below. The thing I don't get is if I
leave in "_container = Application.application.container;" then the
constructor in my class does not run, but if I take it out, it runs. ?!?
Is Application.application.container the correct way to reference the
base UI object you can start adding Sprites to and then draw on with
Actionscript?
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml
<http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute"
applicationComplete="init()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import src.MyClass;
import mx.core.UIComponent;
private var _myClass:MyClass;
private var _container:UIComponent;
private function init():void
{
_container = Application.application.container;
_myClass = new MyClass(_container);
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Application>
The MyClass.as file is:
package src
{
import mx.core.UIComponent;
import mx.core.Application;
public class MyClass
{
private var _container:UIComponent;
private var _circle:Sprite;
public function MyClass(container:UIComponent)
{
trace("constructor runs")
_container = container;
drawGraphics();
}
private function drawCircle():void
{
_circle.graphics.drawCircle(100, 100, 100);
_container.addChild(_circle);
}
}
}
Any ideas as to what is going on? How do you handle getting to
the base UI class to draw objects with Actionscript? Thank you.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
L&LD GT&O
eTools & Multimedia Research & Development
