When working with popups, rather than directly set properties of visual controls, I set a public property, and in the popup I bind the control property to the public property backing variable.
This helps avoid timing issues. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valdhor Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Trouble passing values to a child window I think it's a timing issue. Try this... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public var theNote:noteWindow; //********** popup selected note public function floatingNote():void { theNote = new noteWindow(); theNote.title = "Floating note"; theNote.maximizable = false; theNote.open(); theNote.noteContents.text="My contents"; theNote.noteTitle.text = "Mytitle"; } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Button label="Create Note Window" click="floatingNote()"/> </mx:WindowedApplication> --- In [email protected], "Andrew Wetmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry, I should have said below if I DO comment out the two lines that are > currently commented out, the code runs fine > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi. I have an app where the user can select a note and opt to "pop" > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew Wetmore > User Experience Director > Open Learning Exchange - www.ole.org > 978-319-7324 >
