Referencing repeated components from different AS file

Question

Hi
I am having a View SatSetting.mxml and it has repeater
component which is text field.I am trying to assign the value to it
from different action script file like below code snippet
msatView:SATSetting = new SATSetting();
msatView.taxid_ti[0].text = "Testing";
where taxid_ti is the id of the textinput inside the
repeater.
I am getting null exception at line #2
I am following the steps in flex doc but still getting this
error.
Thanks in advance
K

Answer 1

What you need to do is pass a reference for your GUI mainline class to the constructor of your subcomponents and keep a reference to the subcomponents in the mainline. This way the main GUI object can refer to methods in the other objects and they can refer to methods in the GUI.
eg:
class GuiMain extends JFrame
    MyMenu menu;
    MyButtons buttons;
    GuiMain()
       menu = new MyMenu(this);
       buttons = new MyButtons(this);
       // the rest of the constructor
    // the rest of the class
    m.buildMenu("File");
// in separate files
class MyMenu
    GuiMain parent;
    MyMenu(GuiMain parent)
        this.parent = parent;
        // rest of constructor
    // rest of menu class
    void mnuExit()
       parent.doExit();  // ask parent to shut down
// other classes