getChildByName only checks the immediate children. Recursion is required to go deeper.
If you can blow the stack be recursing on the display object tree, you have too many things on the display list. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pbrendanc Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Enumerating throug container/control arrays in Flex/Actionscript? In windows apps there is a control array collection that can be used to find controls and return a handle to the appropriate object. What is the recommended Flex approach to finding controls and are there any performance tradeoffs here - recursion is slow and potentially error prone (stack overflows anyone?)?? (I'm seeing the use of recursive GetChildByName calls in some examples and wonder if there is a more direct way to find a control given the name/ID - regardless of the nesting level). Am I correct in thinking that GetChildByName only searches the current node for an item, rather than subordinate, nested items? TIA, Patrick
