Also the "show" event of the TabNavigator children. Tracy
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Manish Jethani Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:11 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] enterState for tabNavigator? On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:22 PM, endrone endrone <endr...@gmail.com <mailto:endrone%40gmail.com> > wrote: > when you change a state, there's a enterState dispatched when a new state is > shown. > This is very handy for initializing the state. > > But does something similar exist for the tabNavigator? (enterState exists > for a TabNavigator but doesn't work) > What if you have several tabs and you want to initialize your tab view when > changing? > What are best practices? There are some state-related events: currentStateChanging, currentStateChange, enterState. Check the docs. There's also a change event dispatched by the TabNavigator, and then there's the initialize and creationComplete events dispatched by the individual child containers. Manish -- http://manishjethani.com/ <http://manishjethani.com/>