Well, unfortunately, I did some further testing, and it turns out not to be as
complete a solution as it initially appears to be. Here's a comment that I just
posted on that blog entry:
It is sort of true that "btn" won't be accessible outside that component, but
there are limits on this. Let's say that your custom component is in the file
MyComponent.mxml, and that we would therefore instantiate it within another
file as follows:
<myNamespace:MyComponent id="myComponent" />
If we try to use the btn attribute within that tag, it will not be available to
us. However, we can still access the button subcomponent for things such as
binding. Thus we can add another tag which would bind to the button
subcomponent, like this:
<mx:Text text="{myComponent.btn.label}" />
Not only would this not cause a compiler error, but it would work correctly.
Further, we can access the subcomponent button using ActionScript, such as this:
this.myComponent.btn.label = "modified";
And that will also work. Thus it turns out that [Exclude] is limited to
altering what attributes are available within the tag that declares a component.
----- Original Message ----
From: Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:52:15 PM
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Encapsulating a custom flex component?
Damn, why didn't I think of that? I'd been trying to think of ways to do that
for ages a few months ago, trying to clean up the ctrl-space on some APIs :)
-Josh
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Sid Maskit <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote:
I just found this blog post which seems to provide a way of doing this that is
very straightforward: http://blog. ashier.com/ 2008/03/25/ hiding-propertie
s-in-flex- components/
----- Original Message ----
From: Nate Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:27:13 AM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Encapsulating a custom flex component?
A feature request has been opened for adding accessors to MXML. Please vote on
this if
you see fitting. It also better explains the issue that I am running into.
http://bugs. adobe.com/ jira/browse/ SDK-16181
There is also discussion going on about this issue at Jeff's blog:
http://www.jeffryho user.com/ index.cfm? mode=entry& entry=4DC9B79C- 65B3-D59C-
464EC981E0A2EA8F
Thanks,
Nate
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> In an ActionScript component, you can make the component internal to
> the package. You might also combine it with the "ExcludeClass" metadata
> tag to 'hide' the class name from people using your SWC.
>
> I'm not sure if I'd equate either of these approach to private, though.
>
> I blogged about this in a bit more detail:
>
> http://www.jeffryho user.com/ index.cfm? mode=entry& entry=4DC9B79C-
> 65B3-D59C-
464EC981E0A2EA8F
>
> Josh McDonald wrote:
> > Not in MXML components.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Nate Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:nate@ ...>> wrote:
> >
> > Newbish question... but after searching on google, I can't get a
> > concise answer.
> >
> > Is it possible to encapsulate (mark private) components within a
> > Flex component?
> >
> > So I have custom MXML component (ResourcesTree) that has a Tree
> > inside of it. I don't want
> > the Tree to directly be available outside the ResourcesTree Component.
> >
> > Any input?
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