How to get the label of parent container?

Question

Hi
I have a Canvas, Its label is "News".
I added a text control in it and i want to set its text
dynamically from the canvas label.
But i dont know how to access the label of the Canvas
"without" using the id of the canvas.
like
<mx:Canvas label="News">
<mx:Text text="{parent.label}"/>
</mx:Canvas>
Please guide me to achieve the above thing.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

"manofspirit" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:garoob$lqh$[email protected]..
> Thanks for the reply Amy
> But I dont have any idea about sub-classing!
> Please put some light on this concept.
> Thanks
Say you have an application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:mm="com.magnoliamultimedia.*"
layout="absolute">
<mx:Canvas label="foo">
<mm:ParentLabelText width="100" height="25" />
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Application>
If you have a directory com that has a directory
magnoliamultimedia in it,
then if it has this file, you should see "foo" on the screen
when you run
that application:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Text xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="init()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private function init():void{
if (parent.hasOwnProperty('label')){
text=parent['label'];
} else {
text='parent has no label property';
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Text>
HTH;
Amy