Hi Venkat, That worked out very well. Thanks for your help.
Regards, Ban --- In [email protected], "rueter007" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Flex will not create the children of a component until is is added to > a display object already in the display list. > > you can call initialize() on the component to force creating the children. > > - venkat > http://www.venkatj.com > > --- In [email protected], "letterpigeon" <ban.luc@> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I think the problem I'm having right now is related to when flex > > creates the components to display. > > > > I have a data grid which uses a custom header renderer, so when the > > header is clicked, a panel (a custom component that I named > > TextFilter) will show up that contains a text input (named > > filterField) to accept input for searching on that column. And it's > > working all fine. > > > > The problem occurs when I try to programmatically set filterField.text > > before clicking on the header of that column. At this point, > > TextFilter is initialized but filterField is not, so it's still null. > > I think flex will only fully initalize the TextFilter component > > before it displays, but if the column header is never clicked, flex > > will not initialize TextFilter's children. > > > > I tried setting the creationPolicy of TextFilter to "all" but that > > didn't work. > > > > Does anyone see any feasible solutions to this. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > Ban > > >

