Re: [flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Schmalle
ers@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question thanks for the input Gordon, When i think of creating mxml components, i'm thinking lazy/convenience programming. i want all the component and its children to be created. I can give the children some de

RE: [flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread Gordon Smith
erited styles aren't known until the component is attached to its ancestors by addChild(). - Gordon From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bhaq1972 Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:50 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject:

[flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread bhaq1972
thanks for the input Gordon, When i think of creating mxml components, i'm thinking lazy/convenience programming. i want all the component and its children to be created. I can give the children some default values which i can then change after the 'new', if i wish eg My PrintView.mxml

[flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread bhaq1972
Thanks Mike this is great advice and knowledge. > What problems are you facing without being able to access box children after > the new call and before the addChild() call? I'm modifying a printing example from the livedocs which uses a print template component. I was making a more generi

Re: [flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Schmalle
Hi, Basically, you have to change the way you think about instantiation. Calling the new operator creates memory allocation, accessibility, enables and adds some listeners. This is like preinitialization. What you now have to think is, addChild() is now the constructor of any UIComponent. If y

[flexcoders] Re: creating instances, addChild question

2007-04-30 Thread bhaq1972
Thanks Mike If i want to create a new instance of an mxml component, how can i ensure its children get created as well. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Schmalle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the flow, > > new VBox() > > "I was wrong about the constructor calling initialize()"