Me personally? Probably never. Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oneworld95 Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:18 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: parentDocument variables Thanks, Alex. When would you use a custom event to connect the main Application with an itemRenderer component? - Alex C --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > parentDocument should be ready to go in your data setter. Test it like this. > > override public function set data(value:Object):void > { > trace(parentDocument); > } > > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Developer > Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> > Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of oneworld95 > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:05 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: parentDocument variables > > > By the way, if there's a better way to do it, please let me know. > Thanks :) > > - Alex C > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "oneworld95" <oneworld95@> wrote: > > > > Awhile back, someone on this group mentioned that a good way for a > > component inside an itemRenderer to access variables in the > > parentDocument was to use custom events. I've found some info on > > custom events, but can't quite wrap my brains around how this would > > work with the itemRenderer's set data() function, where the > > parentDocument variable needs to be accessed. Your help is much > > appreciated. > > > > - Alex C > > >
