----- Original Message ----- 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
