By default, Viewstack creates all of its children, but those children do not create their children unless they are the selectedChild. You can hook up to the creationComplete of one of those grandchildren.
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 Wesley Acheson Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Don't understand how to use deferred instantiation http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=layoutperformance_05.html Have you tried setting the creation policy? Jake It says on the above page that viewStack defers child creation by default. Regards, Wesley Acheson On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Jake Churchill <j...@cfwebtools.com<mailto:j...@cfwebtools.com>> wrote: Yes, a viewstack loads everything when the app loads. If you don't want that, I think you need to use states instead Jake Churchill CF Webtools 11204 Davenport, Ste. 100 Omaha, NE 68154 http://www.cfwebtools.com 402-408-3733 x103 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of biosmonkey Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com<mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [flexcoders] Don't understand how to use deferred instantiation I am having trouble understanding how to use deferred instantiation. I have a project with a viewstack, and the viewstack has a lot of canvas containers for different "pages" that are activated according to user selection on a menubar. Each "page" inside the canvas is actually one or two components. The problem is that each of these components has some custom code attached to the creationComplete event that loads external string files. What I am seeing is that all containers and the components are initializing when the application loads, and all string files are being loaded, regardless of the current viewstack view. This is creating a serious performance problem. To test the child controls, I added some alerts inside the "page" components as well (such as a label) that are attached to creationComplete and addedToStage. Both events are firing when the app loads, for all viewstack containers. I don't understand this. What exactly is being deferred? Do all components/child components/controls go through the initialization process and fire creationComplete, regardless of whether they are visible? Can someone please enlighten me on how to use this correctly? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com<http://www.avg.com> Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.96/2369 - Release Date: 09/14/09 05:51:00
