Glad you got it working, but I vote with Ralf. Having the popup dispatch an event allows for reuse of that popup in other applications and places within the current application.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Anderson Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:55 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: how to call a function in a popup parent? passing an instance to the parent class as a variable is exactly what i did, thanks guys! On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:26 PM, actionscript_czar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Since it looks like MiniTextEditor is a custom component, you could make a public variable, or at least a public setter, inside your component so that a reference is available in your component. Then you would instantiate it like this: textPopUp = new MiniTextEditor(); textPopUp.creator = this; PopUpManager.addPopUp( textPopUp, this ); Then the variable should be available to you. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Derrick Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > i create a popup like this from file A: > > textPopUp = > MiniTextEditor( > PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, MiniTextEditor)); > > in this case 'this' is file B: > > from my popup I am trying to call a function in file A, and since the parent > i pass to the popup is not actually the 'parent' - i can't figure out how to > reference a function in the actual parent. any ideas? > > d. >
