Included AS file cant access MXML varriables?

Question

I must be missing something here, but when I add in an Action
Script file using the <script source="xxx.as"/> or include
"xxx.as"; methods the AS file cant access variables I declare in
the MXML file. Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
levancho
quote:
Originally posted by:
jfizer
Not sure I understand what your saying. Of course my MXML
objects have parents and children, but when I had problems I could
access the children but not the parent by ID..
Object A can access its children with ids: (b,c,d) (which is
same as by variable name) because they are part of that object ,so
somewhere in object A there is code :
b = childOne
c = childTwo
d = childThree
thats why objct A can say c.doSomething, b.doSomething else
etc ...
but
Object A can not access its parent (f) By id ,because
Object A does not have :
f = parentObject
(although DisplayObject has property called "parent" which
is invented for that reason so one DisplayObject can cascade up the
hierarchy to its parent etc ...).
I understand all of that, but I fail to see what it has to do
with what I'm talking about where actionscript outside of the
parent child hierarchy of the MXML objects cant access items by ID
or even AS variables defined elsewhere. I have for example MXML as
follows...
<mx:HDividedBox id="daBox" width="100%" height="100%">
<mx:Canvas id="daCanvas" label="Canvas 1" width="100%"
height="100%" backgroundColor="#FFFFCC">
<mx:Label id="daText" text="Add components here"
fontWeight="bold"/>
</mx:Canvas>
<mx:Canvas label="Canvas 2" width="100%" height="100%"
backgroundColor="#99CCFF">
<mx:Label text="Add components here"
fontWeight="bold"/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:HDividedBox>
Now my action script code could change the properties of
daCanvas or daText but not daBox. At least until it magically
started working this morning (well yesterday morning by now). At a
guess, this is a problem with the syntax checker, but because its
intermittent its hard to really check.