Jason: That works great. Thanks for the info.
That still leaves one question, Is there a way of telling if the textAlign attribute is at its default (left) state or was it set in the mxml (or programmatically) to "left"? What I am trying to do is override default behavior in my extended TextInput, but if someone actually specifies textAlign="left" I don't want to override that. Paul --- In [email protected], "jmfillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul, > > I believe that the answer to your original question is that you need > to use setStyle(). > > For example: > > <mx:TextInput id="myTextInput"/> > > private function textAlign():void{ > myTextInput.setStyle("textAlign", "center"); > } > > Jason > --- In [email protected], "aceoohay" <pauls@> wrote: > > > > Well I found the answer, but I have another question or two. > > > > The answer is this.nonInheritingStyles.textAlign. > > > > One new question is how can I tell whether this value is the > default > > value, or a value set by the mxml? > > > > If I change the value during run time, it doesn't seem to honor the > > new value. How can I go about making this happen? > > > > Paul > > > > --- In [email protected], "aceoohay" <pauls@> wrote: > > > > > > I am trying to extend the TextInput class and one thing I would > > like > > > to do is check the current value of the textAlign attribute, and > > > change it if needed. > > > > > > I access the other attributes that I need using the syntax > > > this.attributeName such as this.maxChars, I cannot, however > access > > > this.textAlign. The compiler barfs with error 1119 Access of > > possibly > > > undefined property... > > > > > > It also doesn't appear in the intellisense for the "this" keyword > > in > > > my extended class. It does appear in the intellisense for the > > > <mx:TextInput> tag. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Paul > > > > > >
