Try calling createComponentsFromDescriptors in init()
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jerusalem_pilgrim Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: MXML inheritance Sadly, I get the same results (null object reference) even if I add the following to my AS code: var viewObj:myChildComponent = new myChildComponent(); trace("viewObj created"); app.vwStack.addChild(viewObj); viewObj.init(); * 'app' refers to my the <mx:Application> in my main mxml file. It has a viewStack 'vwStack'. The viewStack has creationPolicy="all". --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Children are not created until the parent is added to the display list. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of jerusalem_pilgrim > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:54 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] MXML inheritance > > Results of execution: > viewObj created > base object init() > child init() > Container from child: null null (should be references to the Container) > Container from base: null null (should also be references to the > Container) >
