Test String 1

Next in your application try the following:

Results:

When you run/debug the application you should see both test variables in the console window. Object is a Top Level Class, and doesn’t meet the requirements of UIComponent.

Secondly, why would you ever want to use mxml for anything outside of flex’s framework? I don’t understand how you could have gotten to the point where you would need to do this without already knowing that AS3 based components/classes are vastly superior in every way. Were you just trying to sound smart or have you not learned Actionscript?

Sho: Who the hell are you/we and what do you mean by “considering how hard it would be to allow this”? You obviously have nothing to do with Flex Builder/MXML/AS3 development or you would have immediately known that
a.) The poster was simply wrong and Sven didn’t bother to actually try to do what he claims he wants to do.
b.) Rostilav most likely suffers from some sort of congenital retardation, half of what he wrote is nonsensical gibberish. I mean seriously, “MXML creatures”,”‘base visual class’ of ‘pure AS3 work flow’”,”MXML is the basement”, who did he learn programming from, M. Night Shyamalan? It’s like he took a huge nitrous hit and just started typing whatever random crap came out of his head.

So if you have no idea what you are talking about(this much is obvious) and have no influence over what is “allowed” why are you responding to idiotic drivel thereby perpetuating a useless discussion based on an imaginary problem and causing me to end up on this stupid blog reading things that just make my brain hurt? Please don’t do this anymore, at least until google somehow comes up with a way to differentiate between mental masturbation and actual useful content, or at least can tell the difference between real problems and those that only exist in the minds of clueless people who just like to see their names on blogs.

I know DataGrids have many more secret rules and exceptions and many things must be broken in their implementation.

Still, great post and thanks a lot !

This is what I tried:

public function putText() : void
{
var ref : UIComponent = new UIComponent();
var field : TextField = new TextField();

field = “a very long text goes here… “;
ref.addChild( field );
somePanel.addChild( ref );

}

This works in a way, but not so well because the text is just drawn over the panel and if it is to long, for example, it wont force the panel to scroll. I think it is similar to what happens with the addrawchild method, isn’t it??.

what I want to do is render a big chunk of text on top of a panel, the text content I get from an xml file (with url loader)…

let’s assume I now have a XML variable (externalXML) with my data.. then…

for each ( var element:XML in externalXML.elements() ) {

field.htmlText += ” ” + element.Name.toString() + “ “;

}

NOW… what would be the correct form to display “field” inside a Panel somewhere on my aplication?? the UIComponent gives me the above mentioned problem, adding the textField directly to the panel is a no go obviusly because of the type error…

any help is appreciated,
mario romero

I am a chinese.I want to translate your posts into Chinese and publish on the web. I want more people in China to know and learn Flex. It is cool, isn’t it? Of course, all the translations will link to the original posts in your blog.

Thanks very much

Sven: We’ve heard this a few times before, and we’re considering how hard it would be to allow this. Thanks for the feedback.