AH beautiful! Thanks Alex - ended up sending component.skin out and all is well.
On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:29 AM, grimmwerks wrote:
> Duh - sorry - I can trace this out now and I see component.skin.
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2013, at 1:10 AM, grimmwerks wrote:
>
>> Hmm -- so how do I find the 'skin' part? I was reading about parent vs owner
>> but both of these point to root1, which isn't the actual component...
>>
>> Following the PureMVC/Fabrication thing, I've got the mediator sending it's
>> view -- which *should* be an instance of my COVideoPlayer class which
>> extends VideoPlayer but utilizes the skin:
>>
>> <video:COVideoPlayer id="videoPlayer" width="100%" height="100%"
>> skinClass="com.creativity.player.skins.video.COVideoPlayerSkin"
>> visible="true" />
>>
>> So I'm not sure why the SkinnableComponent is the thing being sent around:
>>
>> From the mediator:
>>
>> public function get component():COVideoPlayer
>> {
>> return viewComponent as COVideoPlayer;
>> }
>>
>> sending it out:
>>
>> //sendNotification(PlayerConstants.FULL_SCREEN_DISPLAY_VIEW, component);
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Alex Harui wrote:
>>
>>> The only child of a SkinnableComponent is supposed to be Skin and other
>>> children go in the skin. There is no interface for SkinnableComponent, so I
>>> guess you have to test for it and add to its skin?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/10/13 9:03 PM, "grimmwerks" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to pop something above items that are calling for fullscreen
>>>> like
>>>> the VideoPlayer; but in my case I've extended the VideoPlayer and created a
>>>> SkinnableComponent for it.
>>>>
>>>> I've got a little bit of code that I'm using ubiquitously by a few
>>>> different
>>>> components and for some reason this video player is being seen as NOT an
>>>> IVisualElementContainer but of course the addElement has to work with it vs
>>>> addChild; so I'm unsure how I can or really SHOULD be checking for this?
>>>> Here's the code:
>>>>
>>>> debugger.trace(this,'test: ' + (note.getBody() is
>>>> IVisualElementContainer));
>>>> var ui:UIComponent = note.getBody() as UIComponent;
>>>> if(note.getBody() is IVisualElementContainer){
>>>> var n:IVisualElementContainer = note.getBody() as
>>>> IVisualElementContainer;
>>>> n.addElement(view);
>>>> }else{
>>>> ui.addChild(view);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That first line outputs as false -- and forgive the note.getBody() -
>>>> -that's
>>>> the way PureMVC / Fabrication sends messaging around. So I'm basically
>>>> sending the view of the videoPlayerMediator out to be dealt with but for
>>>> this
>>>> the code throws an error:
>>>>
>>>> Error: addChild() is not available in this class. Instead, use
>>>> addElement() or
>>>> modify the skin, if you have one.
>>>> at
>>>> spark.components.supportClasses::SkinnableComponent/addChild()[E:\dev\4.y\fram
>>>> eworks\projects\spark\src\spark\components\supportClasses\SkinnableComponent.a
>>>> s:1123]
>>>> at
>>>> com.creativity.player.view::OverlayPanelMediator/respondToFullScreenDisplayVie
>>>> w()[/Users/Shared/__WORK/Adage Creativity Player
>>>> Redone/src/com/creativity/player/view/OverlayPanelMediator.as:178]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Garry Schafer
>>>> grimmwerks
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Harui
>>> Flex SDK Team
>>> Adobe Systems, Inc.
>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>>>
>>
>>
>> Garry Schafer
>> grimmwerks
>> [email protected]
>> portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Garry Schafer
> grimmwerks
> [email protected]
> portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/
>
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Garry Schafer
grimmwerks
[email protected]
portfolio: www.grimmwerks.com/
