Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-31 Thread Josh McDonald
children won't really work if you are > trying to insert the children between a menubar and status bar. > > > > > -- > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Josh McDonald > *Sent:* Wednesda

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
work if you are trying to insert the children between a menubar and status bar. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh McDonald Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:36 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders]

Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
Alex, I definitely understand the need for this, but I'd use components is all. I can see how it'd be useful though. I'd have to poke around inside the generated actionscript, but I'm sure this could be hacked up without *too* much shenanigans to work with the current compiler. I might take a look

Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
-- > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Alex Harui > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:09 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet? > > &g

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
onald Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet? Makes sense, since you're overriding Container._childDescriptors anyway. But why on earth would you *want* to do this? -Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:0

Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
Frankly I'm moving towards the root Application having nothing but enough code to initiate framework bootstrapping and instantiate the "home" component when bootstrapping is completed anyway. -Josh -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' Mc

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Tracy Spratt
@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet? Any attempt to subclass an MXML Component based on a container to add other children to it usually results in some issue or another, usually that thing about "children have already been defined", so you can't really make

Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
Makes sense, since you're overriding Container._childDescriptors anyway. But why on earth would you *want* to do this? -Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any attempt to subclass an MXML Component based on a container to add > other children to it usua

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
ect: Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet? I'm confused. You subclass Application every time you create a new Flex app, and in MXML. What problems are there to speak of? -Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &g

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Tracy Spratt
ving? Tracy From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Harui Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:09 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet? You can certainly subclass Application via AS. Are you try

Re: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Josh McDonald
I'm confused. You subclass Application every time you create a new Flex app, and in MXML. What problems are there to speak of? -Josh On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can certainly subclass Application via AS. Are you trying to do it > in MXML? > > >

RE: [flexcoders] Can we subclass Application yet?

2008-07-30 Thread Alex Harui
You can certainly subclass Application via AS. Are you trying to do it in MXML? From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chigwell23 Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:51 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Can