Dynamic View Stack

Question

Hi all,
I am trying to create a reusable wizard application component
around the ViewStack component. The component will make it easy for
people to create a new wizard by defining paths through the wizard
in XML along with the names of the views/pages, and then
implementing the views/pages in mxml.
Is there a way to add named views, implemented as mxml pages
(probably based on Canvas), at runtime? The trick seems to be
creating a DisplayObject from an arbitrary name that maps to the
actual mxml file. Is this even possible? Does the ViewStack require
all the views to be defined statically?
Below is the XML that defines the wizard.

Answer 1

"Mike Eppel" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to create a reusable wizard application
component around the
> ViewStack component. The component will make it easy for
people to create
> a new
> wizard by defining paths through the wizard in XML along
with the names of
> the
> views/pages, and then implementing the views/pages in
mxml.
>
> Is there a way to add named views, implemented as mxml
pages (probably
> based
> on Canvas), at runtime? The trick seems to be creating a
DisplayObject
> from an
> arbitrary name that maps to the actual mxml file. Is
this even possible?
> Does
> the ViewStack require all the views to be defined
statically?
Use getDefinitionByName and ClassFactory to dynamically
create your class.
Just be sure that you actually have at least one "hard"
reference to each
class you intend to use, or the class might not get compiled
into your swf.
Here's a full write-up of how to do that:
http://www.paulofierro.com/archives/520/