Swc / accordion problem, trying to create a 3-level dynamic nav

Question

Hi!
First time poster, long-time troller. I've been working on a
CMS system and having a little trouble creating a three level
navigation, that's uses the functionality of the accordion
component, but styled with dynamically loaded fonts.
I'm using the "flexlibs" swc (and was playing with degrafa,
but think it's a little much for what I'm trying to do). What I'm
doing is:
- pulling the three level navigation (1st level - brand, 2nd
- campaign, 3rd - job),
- a VBOX holds the entire nav, the first level is an
accordion with:
-- a header (that somehow draws the data (this is my first
question) to put in a swc I created, in a Header.mxml component.);
and a
-- repeater that does the same thing for "campaign" (2nd
level): vbox, vaccordion (header + repeater), that holds:
-- a swc component, called "JobComp" (I've been playing
swapping it with a flash-made swc but can't seem to figure out how
to pass initialization variables in the constructor)
I used "swc"'s for the nav components, because the fonts are
"AGBuchBQ-Bold" and I thought it'd be easier this way.
I guess my question(s) are:
1. How do I pass a variable in the constructor of a swc
Component?
2. Am I doing this right? Or should I construct the
navigation ALL in flash, export as a swc, and just pass in the xml
to the flash component (which means I need to understand #1...)
3. Is there a way to load / set font in the accordion / list
components that are not the basic fonts? If I can style it all in
the .css, that'd be really really helpful, I think, since it's 90%
there.
Thanks again, for any input,
Dom

Answer 1

My bad i didn't see that you want to create a swc.
Well, as i said earlier, for me, the only way to pass
parameter to a constructor (i suppose you mean like new Label("my
title")) is using actionscript.
What you can do if you want to create an MXML file is
creating public parameters (or getters) in the script tag and use
the [bindable]. As far as i understood Flex, properties in an MXML
will have no action on your component if you don't use this tag.
You can as well create a method that will apply these
parameter after its creation, example :
You create a MyComponent class which has different properties
like displaySubComponent and maximumValue. In your class, you
create a method called "applyParameters" which will do something to
initialize it.
Then you call use it like this:
<c:MyComponent id="a_component" displaySubComponent=[ A,
B, D] maximumValue=5
onCreationComplete={a_component.applyParameters()} />
And yes, i thought
"dataProvider="{repeatCampaign.currentItem..job }" was strange but
it's good to know that we can do that ;)
Hope, i was understandable ^^"