Thanks for the quick reply Douglas..
I know about the _ for private variables, I am just in the process of
breaking my app up. Am I doing things thre right way then ? I have an ojbect
that 3 of the 4 screens either need to read or update. Do I create a public
var and pass it around ?
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Douglas Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You need to inject data from parents into children. If children need
> to send data up the chain to parents, use a event. Thus, in the below
> add a public variable client and set this upon creation like this
>
> <comp:MyPanel client="{_client}" ......
>
> note its odd to name a publicly available variable with a _
>
> DK
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Dan Vega <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]<danvega%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > I built a small app that has 4 screens and everything is working great. I
> > want to learn more about breaking up the views into different components
> > before I move on to mvc in Flex. My question is lets say I have my main
> > application and then each of my screens are views. In my main application
> I
> > have a public variable called _client. On the first view I am trying to
> > access that object and the compiler is telling me it is undefined. In my
> > code you will the line _client = selected.
> >
> > My question is how does the component know about the data declared in the
> > main application ?
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <mx:Panel xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> > width="100%" height="100%" layout="vertical"
> > title="Rogers Image Uploader - Start"
> > backgroundColor="#000"
> > creationComplete="init()">
> >
> > <mx:Script>
> > <![CDATA[
> > import mx.events.ListEvent;
> >
> > private function init():void {
> > // disable the next button until a client is selcted
> > btnNextStart.enabled = false;
> > // listen for changes on the client grid
> > dgClients.addEventListener(ListEvent.CHANGE,onSelectClient);
> > }
> >
> > private function onSelectClient(event:ListEvent):void {
> > var selected:Object = event.itemRenderer.data;
> > _client = selected;
> > btnNextStart.enabled = true;
> > }
> > ]]>
> > </mx:Script>
> >
> > <mx:DataGrid id="dgClients" dataProvider="{_clients}" width="100%"
> > height="100%">
> > <mx:columns>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="" labelFunction="rowNumber"
> > width="40"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Client" dataField="client_name"
> > width="250"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="City" dataField="city"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="State" dataField="state"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Zip" dataField="zip"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Phone" dataField="phone"/>
> > <mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Status" dataField="status"
> > labelFunction="statusRenderer"/>
> > </mx:columns>
> > </mx:DataGrid>
> >
> > <mx:ControlBar>
> > <mx:Button label="Previous" enabled="false"/>
> > <mx:Spacer width="100%"/>
> > <mx:Label text="Select a client and click next." color="#ffffff"/>
> > <mx:Spacer width="100%"/>
> > <mx:Button id="btnNextStart" label="Next"
> > click="{this.currentState='uploader'}"/>
> > </mx:ControlBar>
> > </mx:Panel>
> >
> > Thank You
> > Dan Vega
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <danvega%40gmail.com>
> > http://www.danvega.org
> >
> >
>
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> Douglas Knudsen
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