Hello fellows :) The situation: Actually I extend an AS component CompA into many other MXML components CompA1, CompA2... CompA500 and so on. They all share same skin CompASkin, because it is convenient and maintainable.
Now, there is a requirement: small sub part of the skin have to be different for each extended component. That change is always in same zone of the skin, 99% of the skin will never change. Let's call that zone the ChangeZone. For some of components a new TextInput will be added to ChangeZone, for others it will be a Label, or a Button, or some other component or combination of few of them, nothing too complicated. What is the best practice to solve this problem? For example, do I have to make 500+ small custom components representing that ChangeZone implementing an interface IChangeZone ? Am I be able to set it in the skin separately for each extended component? I hope you understand that having 500+ skins that are almost identical except for this small zone is not an option as it will be a real nightmare to apply change to all of them each time... well, something changes. I know there is a solution without code duplication as Flex 4 is meant to be extensible, but I just can't find it. I hope you can give me some help on this one :) Thank you in advance for your help, Adnan
