RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
Thank you Stephen. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Gilson Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:17 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It is covered in the doc in the chapter on the Application container: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/201/html/app_container_064_09.html http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/201/html/app_container_064_09.html Stephen From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 6:00 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions I'm on the Flex framework team in San Francisco. Glad to be of help. I'm not sure where (if?) this is covered in our doc set. Where would you expect to look? - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:39 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions GORDON! Where the hell are you in the country? I'm coming to kiss you. :)~ J/K But really, thank you!!! When you are just starting out in a language, the simplest things are the hardest. I've been coding C++, VB, C#, VB.NET for 12 years (3 on the later), but learning this - has been like jumping into the abyss. Thanks again. ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It sounds like what you really want to know is If I have component B inside of component (or application) A, how can ActionScript code in B access A's properties and methods? (Setting the currentState property of the app from one of its components is simply a special case of this.) The answer is by using the parentDocument property. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
1st suggestion, since there is a LACK of flex 2 books, go onto lyndia.com, Adobe Flex 2 Training from the Source is really quite good IMO and it goes over states and transitions pretty well. Lynda.com is great, but I think this book is more extensive than the current Lynda courses. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
sigh! I have searched all day and I still can't figure out how to do this. Did I ask something that was hard to do? This is what I have learned... I can add an event to my custom component that, when clicked, will alert the parent to change state - if the parent is listening. But heck if I can find some sample code that will help me get started. ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merrill, Jason Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:51 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions 1st suggestion, since there is a LACK of flex 2 books, go onto lyndia.com, Adobe Flex 2 Training from the Source is really quite good IMO and it goes over states and transitions pretty well. Lynda.com is great, but I think this book is more extensive than the current Lynda courses. Jason Merrill Bank of America Learning Organizational Effectiveness
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml; layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
It sounds like what you really want to know is If I have component B inside of component (or application) A, how can ActionScript code in B access A's properties and methods? (Setting the currentState property of the app from one of its components is simply a special case of this.) The answer is by using the parentDocument property. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
GORDON! Where the hell are you in the country? I'm coming to kiss you. :)~ J/K But really, thank you!!! When you are just starting out in a language, the simplest things are the hardest. I've been coding C++, VB, C#, VB.NET for 12 years (3 on the later), but learning this - has been like jumping into the abyss. Thanks again. ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It sounds like what you really want to know is If I have component B inside of component (or application) A, how can ActionScript code in B access A's properties and methods? (Setting the currentState property of the app from one of its components is simply a special case of this.) The answer is by using the parentDocument property. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
I'm on the Flex framework team in San Francisco. Glad to be of help. I'm not sure where (if?) this is covered in our doc set. Where would you expect to look? - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:39 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions GORDON! Where the hell are you in the country? I'm coming to kiss you. :)~ J/K But really, thank you!!! When you are just starting out in a language, the simplest things are the hardest. I've been coding C++, VB, C#, VB.NET for 12 years (3 on the later), but learning this - has been like jumping into the abyss. Thanks again. ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It sounds like what you really want to know is If I have component B inside of component (or application) A, how can ActionScript code in B access A's properties and methods? (Setting the currentState property of the app from one of its components is simply a special case of this.) The answer is by using the parentDocument property. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions
Here is a good section name for V3 docs. MXML Component/Parent Application Communications I compare it to referencing a UserControl in .NET. I was hoping there was a simple way of communicating with the parent, but I had no idea where to look. Of course my boss wasn't to happy that it took me all day to figure this out, but that is what he gets for not accepting XBAP as our Web 2.0 solution. I blame the 7% that are not using Microsoft. :) The rest of this application will be a real challenge, and I'm sure the community will be hearing from me again if I get stuck. Best regards, ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:00 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions I'm on the Flex framework team in San Francisco. Glad to be of help. I'm not sure where (if?) this is covered in our doc set. Where would you expect to look? - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:39 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions GORDON! Where the hell are you in the country? I'm coming to kiss you. :)~ J/K But really, thank you!!! When you are just starting out in a language, the simplest things are the hardest. I've been coding C++, VB, C#, VB.NET for 12 years (3 on the later), but learning this - has been like jumping into the abyss. Thanks again. ~David T. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Smith Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:07 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It sounds like what you really want to know is If I have component B inside of component (or application) A, how can ActionScript code in B access A's properties and methods? (Setting the currentState property of the app from one of its components is simply a special case of this.) The answer is by using the parentDocument property. - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Terry Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions If it was that simple I would not be asking for help. I can figure out how to change state when all controls are in the same application, but I can't figure out how to make a custom control change the state of the parent. If the comp:Login control has the register button, and this is the 'parent' page, how does the 'login' tell the parent to change to the 'Register' state? ~David T. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? mx:Application xmlns:mx=http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml layout=absolute xmlns:comp=assets.components.* currentState=Login mx:Style source=../assets/css/main.css/ mx:states mx:State name=Register mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:signup1 horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0/ /mx:AddChild /mx:State mx:State name=Login mx:AddChild position=lastChild comp:login horizontalCenter=0 verticalCenter=0 /comp:login /mx:AddChild /mx:State /mx:states /mx:Application From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of theduderino82 Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Please Help - Components, States, Transitions It's really much more simple then you think. There are some good tutorials on the flex start page. Just type in the search transition or state.
