Hi Sean: Yep. Three-up - three-down. You nailed them all.
Thanks! Ted. --- In [email protected], "Sean Clark Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ted. > > 1. Oh, right... the mouse events bubble, so they are fired not only for your > components, but for whatever you actually clicked on underneath it. It > looks like I used event.currentTarget instead of event.target. Can you > trace (event.target) and see if it is actually the component you wanted? > > 2. Try fixing 1 and seeing if that fixes > > 3. You needed to import flash.display.Spirte; Google "flex 3 language > reference". you can find everything there. The only reason I used sprite > was because that was the class that defines startDrag. Normally, if all the > components were the same (all of type ComponentA), I would do > event.currentTarget as ComponentA, since that's more specific. Since all > flex components are UIComponents, which are sprites, they all have the > startDrag event. you would have to import your ComponentA though. You > could have done event.currentTarget as UIComponent just as easily (import > mx.core.UIComponent). > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:36 PM, edlueze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Sean! > > > > I've only just started playing with your suggestion - it seems to work > > fine but there are some things I'm going to need to dig into before I > > fully understand what's going on: > > > > 1. Not only do my components drag around fine, but the components > > *within* those components now also drag around. Interesting, but not > > what I expected. I'm going to have to figure out how to lock those > > internal parts of the component. > > > > 2. There is some text that I'm displaying within the components. It > > appears that this text is not allowed to be dragged, and when I click > > on the text to drag it an error is thrown. > > > > 3. I now need to add an additional line of code "import > > flash.display.*". I didn't need that before - presumably I need it now > > to cast the component into a Sprite. Not sure which part of > > flash.display.* I actually need. > > > > All the best! > > > > Ted. > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Sean > > Clark Hess" <seanhess@> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, use event.target. > > > > > > private function onMouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void > > > { > > > (event.target as Spirte).startDrag(); > > > } > > > > > > The reason why your last two things don't work is because, unlike > > > javascript, "this" and "id" would refer to the parent component > > (e.g. the > > > file you are currently editing). So, if you want to pass "id" you > > have to > > > pass "ComponentCId.id" (like you did in #2). Or, if you want to > > pass "this" > > > you have to pass "ComponentDId" > > > > > > This way is very consistent... this always just refers to the file your > > > working in. It's always easy to drill down anyway. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM, edlueze <edlueze@> wrote: > > > > > > > I am trying to refer to the id field for an mxml component from > > within > > > > that component so I can pass it back to some actionscript. > > > > > > > > Consider this example: I want to be able to drag components around a > > > > panel by calling mouseDown/mouseUp from within the mxml component > > > > definition. The first two components work (ComponentA and ComponentB) > > > > but the second two components don't work (ComponentC and ComponentD). > > > > > > > > Being able to reference the component id from within the mxml > > > > component provides a little more scalability. Perhaps there is a > > > > better way altogether? > > > > > > > > <mx:Script> > > > > <![CDATA[ > > > > > > > > private function onMouseDown(event:MouseEvent, myid:String ):void > > > > { > > > > this[myid].startDrag(); > > > > } > > > > > > > > private function onMouseUp(event:MouseEvent, myid:String ):void > > > > { > > > > this[myid].stopDrag(); > > > > } > > > > ]]> > > > > </mx:Script> > > > > > > > > <!-- This works --> > > > > <component:ComponentA > > > > id="ComponentAId" > > > > mouseDown="onMouseDown(event,'ComponentAId')" > > > > mouseUp="onMouseUp(event,'ComponentAId')"/> > > > > > > > > <!-- And this works --> > > > > <component:ComponentB > > > > id="ComponentBId" > > > > mouseDown="onMouseDown(event,ComponentBId.id)" > > > > mouseUp="onMouseUp(event,ComponentBId.id)"/> > > > > > > > > <!-- But this doesn't work --> > > > > <component:ComponentC > > > > id="ComponentCId" > > > > mouseDown="onMouseDown(event,id)" > > > > mouseUp="onMouseUp(event,id)"/> > > > > > > > > <!-- And this doesn't work --> > > > > <component:ComponentD > > > > id="ComponentDId" > > > > mouseDown="onMouseDown(event,this)" > > > > mouseUp="onMouseUp(event,this)"/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
