You can just handle the click event from your button and in the handler function pull the necessary information out of your 3 custom components and then do what you want with it.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Laurence MacNeill <lmacne...@...> wrote: > > I have a form with 3 Custom Components on it. I want to be able to > click a single button on the form (button is not in any of the custom > components) that will submit the form. But I'm confused as how to do this? > > From what I understand, I somehow need to get all three custom > components to throw an event at the same time, yes? And to have them > throw these events when a button is clicked, and said button is not a > part of any of the three components. Therein lies my confusion. How > do I do this? > > Or would it just be easier to combine all three components into one > giant component that contains the submit button? Seems like bad > programming practice to me, tho. There's gotta be a way to keep the > three components separate, and have a submit button on the main form > that will trigger the "submit" event in all three components > simultaneously, I would think -- I just can't figure out how to do it. > > Thanks for any help you can offer, > > Laurence MacNeill > Mableton, Georgia, USA >