[flexcoders] Re: getElement from scope

2007-11-29 Thread johantrax
Hi Raf, item.modelns::name.text(); is a way of accessing the variable name.text() in another namespace (item.modelns). This is far more complicated than it needs to be. An example: ___ components/Example.mxml --- ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Canvas

[flexcoders] Re: getElement from scope

2007-11-28 Thread johantrax
Like if i create a mx:TextInput id=foo / to work with it on the actionscript just use foo.text = 'bla' for example. The reason you can access foo in your AS here is because when you define an mxml-tag, it basically becomes a public, bindable property of that class. So if you want the same in AS

[flexcoders] Re: getElement from scope

2007-11-28 Thread Rafael Faria
Johan, Thanks for your useful reply. I will try to work with the dictionary as well but i was hopping you could explain me what does item.modelns::name.text(); mentioned on the article means. Sorry, i didnt work with this object before and i try to google it but i didnt get nothing.

[flexcoders] Re: getElement from scope

2007-11-28 Thread Rafael Faria
The other thing is that i create all the elements on a formitem and a form before add to the stage so basically when i create the element i get the formitem name and the name of the element FormItem287.source_code_bt so i dont get the whole object at all at the point of creation. =/ --- In