All AS code needs to be inside the curly braces and you need to concatenate
your static string to the string returned from your function
<mx:Text text="{returnEmail() + ' is logged on'}" />
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on a logon class in Flex 3. I've got a login.mxml which
> controls the overall views (logon/register/logout) all in the same box
> depending on what state the user is in.
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> In the loginForm.mxml (included in the logon.mxml), I've got a function
> called protected returnName():String
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> Function I want to call from the loginForm AS3 script:
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> *protected* *function* returnName():String (I've also tried public in
> case it was not available in that area of code)
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> {
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> *return* *this*.username.text;
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> }
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> Snippet from my mxml code:
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> Xmlns:login="com.ft.views.login.*";
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> ...
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> <mx:State name="loggedIn">
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> <mx:AddChild position="lastChild">
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> <mx:Panel
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> width="75%" height="50%" layout="vertical"
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> verticalScrollPolicy="off" horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
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> <mx:VBox width="100%" height="100%" verticalScrollPolicy="off"
> horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
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> <mx:Text text="{returnEmail()} is logged on;" /> ß------- line in
> question --------
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> <login:LogoutForm
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> logoutSuccessful="this.currentState='onLogin()';" />
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> </mx:VBox>
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> </mx:Panel>
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> </mx:AddChild>
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> </mx:State>
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> I can't seem to figure out how to reference the method as I get the error:
> 1180: Call to a possibly undefined method returnName.
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> I've tried:
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> <mx:Text text="{loginForm.returnEmail()} is logged on;" />
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> <mx:Text text="{login.returnEmail()} is logged on;" />
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> Among many others…
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> This is probably pretty simple. I really appreciate your help.
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