Can't change second comboBox

Question

Hi all,
I have two canvas in a tab navigator. From my function I can
change the
properties of a comboBox from the first canvas (conbo1_cb)
but I can't do it
for the second one.
Any way how to do this?
Why works only for the first canvas?
Tks
JFB
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.ComboBox;
public function setCombos(event:ResultEvent):void
this.combo1_cb.label = "label1";
this.combo2_cb.label = "label2";
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:TabNavigator width="800" height="100%" y="18"
horizontalCenter="60">
<mx:Canvas label="view1" width="100%" height="100%">
<mx:ComboBox id="combo1_cb" x="148"
y="53"></mx:ComboBox>
</mx:Canvas>
<mx:Canvas label="view2" width="100%" height="100%">
<mx:ComboBox id="conbo2_cb" x="148"
y="153"></mx:ComboBox>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:TabNavigator>

Answer 1

Great... This make a lot of sense, Tks
JFB
"ntsiii" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:f4pj4i$bn$[email protected]..
>A little more detail:
> The Flex navigation containers all use what is called
"deferred
> instantiation"
> by default.
>
> This means that the child views are not rendererd (do
not exist) until a
> user
> has navigated to that view. The purpose of this is to
improve the
> percieved
> performance of the application at start-up. If every
view in a complex
> app
> must be rendered at start-up, the start-up time can be
unacceptably slow.
>
> Setting creationPolicy="all" should be considered a
short-term fix. The
> correct way to handle this is to have the child
components bind to a
> central
> data location, or have initialization code in them to
retrieve and set the
> desired properties.
>
> Tracy
>