Fine. Can you just show me a simple example of how to "Just add the label when
you
subclass". Real code is most convincing and helpful to me. And you blog is
cool, but it
just seems not so easy to dig up the specific snippet I need in a short time.
Thank you
again.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> There are no hard rules here. I'm a code minimalist and don't like
> adding layers of code and display object parents unless it is really
> important. Adding one child is not worthy of another layer IMHO, so I'd
> just subclass, and I don't see why such a subclass wouldn't be reusable.
> See the examples on my blog (blogs.adobe.com/aharui).
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> The more stuff you add, the slower things get and more memory they take.
> MXML is convenient, but not as efficient. It's up to you. If you do
> composite, the trick should be propagating the data object from the
> container to the children.
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>
> Also, you should never call addChild in a constructor. We have a
> component lifecycle documented for performance reasons.