Rarely is this the way to go.
You should go through the dataProvider for all data access. You should use the dataProvider for all renderer UI updates as well. Your renderers must be updating the dataProvider items or they wouldn't be working. So do: var myComboValue:String = MyDG.selectedItem.myComboValueProperty; Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeffreyr6915 Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Actionscript/Flex 3 - Communicating with an itemRenderer from the main applicati I know that if you want to communicate with the main application from within the itemRenderer component, you have to use "outerDocument" first...Example: <mx: DataGridColumn dataField="field" headerText="col1" editorDataField="text" editable="true"> <mx: itemRenderer> <mx: Component> <mx:ComboBox dataProvider="{outerDocument.myXml.info}" change="myMethod(dg.instanceIndex)" id="cbItemRenderer"/> </mx: Component> </mx: itemRenderer> </mx: DataGridColumn> My question is: ---How do you communicate with an itemRenderer from within the main application? It seems like the main app does not have scope to the itemRenderer, because when I add an id attribute to the <mx:ComboBox> tag, I cannot refer to it...Example: cbItemRenderer.getSelectedItem().label) Thanks
