This works great.
I'll continue to look for a more straightforward way that doesn't rely on
mx_internal variables.
Thank you for this though! This will work for now.
-Mark
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Manish Jethani wrote:
> On 3/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am able to create an effect to apply to alerts when I define the effect
> > in MXML, but it does not work when I try to create it the effect and apply
> > it in actionscript.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why this does not work?:
>
>
> > StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration( "Alert" ).setStyle(
> > "creationCompleteEffect", alertEffect );
>
> The MXML compiler does a bit more than that. You can look at it
> yourself by using the -keep-generated-actionscript compiler switch.
> But here's the additional stuff:
>
> import mx.core.mx_internal;
>
> var acs:CSSStyleDeclaration = StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration("Alert");
> if (!acs.mx_internal::effects)
> acs.mx_internal::effects = [];
> acs.mx_internal::effects.push("creationCompleteEffect");
>
> I don't know why there isn't a straighforward way of registering an
> effect, but you could use this hack if you really must.
>
> Manish
>
