Change a Labels Style

Question

I was wondering if anyone can help me out. I am trying to
change a style of a label dynamically. The problem is I get an
error "Call Attempted on an object that is not a function" if I try
to define the var as an object and it doesn't work correctly as a
string (even with [] since they killed the eval function).
This works fine:
lblHome.setStyle("color", "#FFFFFF")
When I try to do it dynamically is when I get the error:
private function itemOver(event:MouseEvent) : void
var itemID:Object = event.currentTarget.id;
itemID.setStyle("color", "#FFFFFF") --- When I debug itemID
is defined as lblHome
When I try to eval a string it changes style for all labels
for some reason:
private function itemOver(event:MouseEvent) : void
var itemID:String = event.currentTarget.id;
[itemID]setStyle("color", "#FFFFFF") --- When I debug itemID
is defined as lblHome
Can someone please help me... I am new to flex and trying to
redo a ColdFusion flash forms app.
Thanks

Answer 1

sloan2b wrote:
> I think I read somewhere else, but is there a problem w/
> getting the hand cursor to display? I set
useHandCursor="true" and I dont get
> the hand cursor over the label? Will this be fixed in
the next version?
useHandCursor is not supported for Label (it's a
documentation bug that they
are listed there). But you can use <mx:LinkButton>
instead (and you can
change its styles, as desired, to make it look more like a
Label if you want to.)
By the way, on those controls that *do* support
useHandCursor, don't forget to
also set buttonMode="true".
Mike Morearty
Developer, Flex Builder team
http://www.morearty.com/blog