Actually, you should listen for show/hide in "capture" phase, and then figure out if the thing that changed "contains()" your component.
-Alex ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dorkie dork from dorktown Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcomponents]Event that tells me when parent is hidden or shown ok. thanks gordon. so i just iterated up the chain adding event listeners i should be ok. adding event listeners does not add overhead does it? its the functions that get called that can add overhead right? one more additional question. when a parent container is hidden how does it hide the children? i thought it removed them through removeChild but no event is dispatched. in fact no hide, remove, removed or removeFromStage event is triggered when a parent container is hidden. On 06 Mar 2007 21:36:03 -0800, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: I think your component will have to listen to 'show' and 'hide' events from each of its ancestors. - Gordon ________________________________ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of dorkie dork from dorktown Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:00 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [flexcomponents]Event that tells me when parent is hidden or shown I have a component that needs to know when a parent, grand parent, great grand parent etc, is hidden and when it is shown. The hide and show events never seem to be called on the children of a container that is hidden or shown.
