using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Dennis Raddle
I wrote some code using spark.components.Label, something very simple, and I don't see anything when I run this. import flash.display.*; import flash.text.*; import layout.Layout; import spark.components.Label; public class App1 extends Sprite { public function App1() { var

Re: using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Jeffry Houser
App1 extends sprite; which means you probably aren't in a Flex project and there are no Flex specific classes to force the Spark Label through its lifecycle process. In theory you could write your own "SystemManager" class to put Flex components through their livecycle and handle invalidat

Re: using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Lee Burrows
Flex components cant be placed inside Sprites. Try extending spark.components.Application instead of Sprite On 17/07/2013 00:01, Dennis Raddle wrote: I wrote some code using spark.components.Label, something very simple, and I don't see anything when I run this. import flash.display.*; i

Re: using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Lee Burrows
...but that may not be enough. what IDE are you using? is this the entire code of your app? On 17/07/2013 00:14, Lee Burrows wrote: Flex components cant be placed inside Sprites. Try extending spark.components.Application instead of Sprite On 17/07/2013 00:01, Dennis Raddle wrote: I wrote s

Re: using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Harui
Flex is a framework and most frameworks have bootstrap/startup requirements. For Flex, it pretty much requires that you use an MXML file with an Application tag at the top. It is technically possible to build out from pure AS, but very difficult. It is a goal of FlexJS to not require an MXML file

Re: using spark.components.Label through pure ActionScript

2013-07-16 Thread Dennis Raddle
I'm not using an IDE. Yes that's pretty much all the code. I'm just experimenting right now. I have gotten mxml files to work, so for now I'll use that route if I want to use Flex components. I'm not sure if my project really needs Flex. It might be pure ActionScript. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4: