OK never mind, finally figured this out. Hadn't heard of the declarations tag before. And so I just created an XMLListCollection component, and then put the XMLList in that with my data inside that.
And then on my application MXML component, I put this new XMLListCollection component inside my declarations tag. Thanks, and just ignore me! ben gomez farrell wrote: > > > Hey guys, > Just starting to build my first Flex 4 app. I'm making an MenuBar as > the first thing I'm attempting. I can get it working with XML data if I do > <mx:MenuBar> > <s:dataProvider> > <myxml> > </s:dataProvider> > </mx:MenuBar> > > However, I'd like to break out the XML data into a separate > file/component. Normally I'm not so organized - so I don't really think > I ever did this in Flex 3, but I understand you can just create a Model > container, and you're good. > > It doesn't look like I can do this in Flex 4. I'm trying different > things with the DataGroup container - putting a dataprovider in it, or > a XMLList in it, but nothing seems to work out. > > Does anybody know the proper way to do this? > thanks! > ben > >
