King Dork, It's all composition mon...
The developer of the component creates an API. This is the front or interface of your component. There are really two main api's to a component, the public and we will say protected(developer). There are many ways to open up certain parts of a component to be styleable. My guess is this. A public style api needs to be defined in such a way that you don't end up exposing all of the sub components to those that might actually harm your algorithms(somethings need to be private). So the solution is simple but unfortunately all component have not had this implemented yet. Create a styleName for the sub component. Like in Container, we have verticalScrollBarStyleName. So on and so forth. This doesn't solve your problem of filters on a subcomponent. It really comes down to all possibilities cannot be predicted by a component developer. You have to draw the line somewhere to protect your assssets. ;-) As far as your accordion header problem, The accordion header is an itemRenderer. So to solve your problem quickly. I would either subclass the AccordionHeader and create a new header or subclass UIComponent and implement IDataRenderer. Remember, like I showed you last month. ;-) hahaha Use the headerRenderer:IFactory <../core/IFactory.html> [read-write], the force flows strong in it. Peace, Mike On 12/14/06, dorkie dork from dorktown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I posted this in flex coders but its something component developers should know. How does someone manipulate the properties and styles of a sub component? Like the ComboBox contains a Label inside it. Does a component developer have to provide getters and setters for each sub component property he wants to expose to MXML? For example, I've been having trouble trying to find a way to add a filter effect to the label component that is inside the Accordion header. dorkie tinkering dork from dorktown
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