Each mxml has its own (document) scope. It essentially defines a class. A method must be public in order to be accessed from outside the class, you cannot access protected from outside the class.
Your snippet doesn't have id's or show the relationship between the two classes so it is hard to say why it isn't working. Also, you appear to be trying to call returnEmail when the snippet only showed a returnName method. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Calling AS3 functions I'm still getting the same error... The class exists in the loginForm.mxml but the mxml code exists in the login.mxml file. Is there something special I have to do to use the functions that exist in the other mxml file? Better yet, is there a way to access variables other than setting up a function in the active script? Thanks much. ----------- 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'}" /> -------------- 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. In the loginForm.mxml (included in the logon.mxml), I've got a function called protected returnName():String Function I want to call from the loginForm AS3 script: protected function returnName():String (I've also tried public in case it was not available in that area of code) { return this.username.text; } Snippet from my mxml code: Xmlns:login="com.ft.views.login.*"; ... <mx:State name="loggedIn"> <mx:AddChild position="lastChild"> <mx:Panel width="75%" height="50%" layout="vertical" verticalScrollPolicy="off" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"> <mx:VBox width="100%" height="100%" verticalScrollPolicy="off" horizontalScrollPolicy="off"> <mx:Text text="{returnEmail()} is logged on;" /> <--------- line in question -------- <login:LogoutForm logoutSuccessful="this.currentState='onLogin()';" /> </mx:VBox> </mx:Panel> </mx:AddChild> </mx:State> 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. I've tried: <mx:Text text="{loginForm.returnEmail()} is logged on;" /> <mx:Text text="{login.returnEmail()} is logged on;" /> Among many others... This is probably pretty simple. I really appreciate your help. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner <http://www.mailscanner.info/> , and is believed to be clean.
