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From: simonjpalmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Can a control be a child of more than one parent?
I have a set of controls that I want to share between two different
containers, one ViewStack and one Repeater. I create the controls
inline as children of the ViewStack and then I pass their references
to a custom ItemRenderer in the Repeater. In the custom ItemRenderer
I add them as a child.
When I inspect the parent property in the debugger I see that it is
the itemRendererer and not their original parent. Is that to be
expected? Can a control be a child of more than one parent?
A control can only have one parent on the display list, though there can be
multiple references to a control. I'm not sure if I entirely follow your
description though.
If you have controls sitting in two different containers, they will be
different instances of the control.
Paul
