Dynamic and inherited States in MXML not recognized

Question

Hi ! can you explain how Flash Builder detects the states in MXML?
It seems that it only parses the inline MXML declaration (and only strings!)
<s:states>
        <s:State name="state1"/>
        <s:State name="state2"/>
</s:states>
but if you have states defined in the base class those states are not recognized when you type includeIn, excludeIn, etc.
Even more ! if you make something like this:
<s:states>
         <s:State name="{STATE_NAME}"/>
         <s:State name="state2"/>
</s:states>
Where STATE_NAME is a local var, Flash Builder doesn't recognize it either.
Please tell me if this is a bug or a lack of feature, and in any case, if there is a workaround for this.
I need to inherits my states, and use them in the child components.
Thanks !
Enrique.

Answer 1

but problem is when I try to set some variable as valie of
attribute and I dont want to make it bindable: I get warnings
unable to bind,etc etc ....
so I am pretty sure it tries bind anything that is variable
type. for example I have static variable :
static public var MY_DATE_RANGE: Object = {rangeStart : new
Date(1970,0,1), rangeEnd : new Date()}; and if I set that as value
of attribute selectableRange of DateField component :
selectableRange="{NpdNaDateField.UNLIMITED_DATE_RANGE}"
I start getting warnings : unable to bind etc etc ... so that
means it is trying to bind.
but how else I can set that value besides {}?
if I do
selectableRange="NpdNaDateField.UNLIMITED_DATE_RANGE" does
not work.