thanks bill,  but it's the conditional if () that i'm trying to avoid.
i'm thinking of the way it's implemented in browser DOM models with
document.getElementById(elementID).

surely there's a way?

On 5/12/05, Bill Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
> Using components you can use getFocus to get a reference to the currently
> active component.  I use this in conjunction with an event listener to
> respond to component events.  Not sure that this is the best way.  I'd be
> interested to hear what others are doing. 
>   
> //example 
>   
> var new_object = createClassObject(mx.controls.TextInput,id,next_depth,o); 
> new_object.addEventListener("change", change_action); 
>   
> function change_action(evt:Object)
> {
>   //get focussed item
>   var f:Object = evt.target.getFocus(); 
> if(f.className == "TextInput")
>   { 
> f.text = "something"  
> } 
>   
> } 
>   
>   
>   
>   
> Bill Lane
> =====================
> Web Developer
> Educational Media Group
> PVC Teaching and Learning Portfolio
> RMIT University
> Tel:   61 3 9925 9804 
> Fax:  61 3 9925 9625
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