Hi everyone, I'm having trouble trying to find the x,y-coordinate position of components within my application. I'm a brand new Flex developer with experience in Java, C, Python, PHP, ColdFusion, etc. but no experience with Flash or ActionScript.
In short, my question is: is there an easy way to find the location of a component within the window? I have a number of buttons added programatically whose .x and .y properties are all just 0. It seems like this should be a simple task, but I have tried for hours and failed. The situation in detail is this: In my MXML, I have defined a Grid inside of my Application. The Grid is placed with horizontalCenter=0 and paddingTop=50. Inside of the grid is a GridRow containing an empty GridItem. Upon creationComplete of the Application, a function is called which instantiates a subclass of Tile, and adds it to the empty GridItem with addChild. In addition, the Tile subclass has a constructor which creates and places a number of buttons inside the Tile. (There are also other rows and items in the Grid containing some other components.) So in essence the structure is: Application -> Grid -> GridRow -> GridItem -> Tile -> Buttons. This all looks just the way I want it to and functions fine, except I am unable to find the location coordinates of the Buttons. All of the buttons as well as the Tile itself have x and y as 0. I have tried using the localToGlobal to convert, but this doesn't work since the buttons don't even have an x,y relative to the parent, they simply have an x,y of 0. I feel like someone may want to know why I need the position of the button. The specific answer is that I want to place a series of additional labels on top of it, but the general answer is that it just seems like something a developer should be able to do when working with a GUI. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
