So after more research it appears that using getStyle within the skin is the accepted way actually, according to the old 4.6 using flex documentation https://help.adobe.com/archive/en_US/flex/using/flex_4.6_help.pdf.
However, I still am not sure why my Labels within BottomControlBar are not inheriting the styles from BottomControlBar. Is this because they are within Groups? Kyle -- Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/
