Tab Component Not Updating (Bug?)

Question

Wow. Just discovered the forums today and already making the
most of them!
Anyways, I've come across another problem possibly a bug. I
have a parent component that makes a call to a server side
component. On completion it dispatches a custom event. I've added
listeners to 5 other components so that when they detect this event
they all enable a corresponding button. These seven components are
contained within a parent component that is in term contained
within the first component.
So it goes something like this;
grandparent--->parent-->children. The grandparent dispatches
the event and the children register listeners. In addition the
children extend the box component and are wrapped around a tab
navigator in the parent component.
Now the problem is this. When the event is fired the children
are supposed to enable the button (btn.enabled = true;). But it is
only those components whose tabs that have been selected prior to
the event being fired that are able to enabled the button. For
example, if I click on Tab1 and Tab 2 (children 1 and 2) and THEN
the event is dispatched, Tab1 and Tab2 will enable their buttons.
However Tab 3 - 5 will not enable their buttons. Then if click on
tab 3 and the event is again dispatched Tab3 will enable its
button, but 4 and 5 will not.
Its extremely strange and to be honest its doing my head in!
LOL. Has anybody else had this kind of behavior? is this a bug that
I am not aware of? Is there a solution or a possible workaround?
Thank You
Jaz

Answer 1

May I remind you that we still have this great thing called
DataBinding.
What I am doing is it like this:
(ro is remote Object with a specific function)
<mx:Button
enabled="{ro.myRemoteFunction.lastResult!=null}" .....>
Or when you get some data collection back you store in a
array collection, for example:
[Bindable] private var myArray:ArrayCollection=new
ArrayCollection();
function myResult(event:ResultEvent):void {
myArray = new ArrayCollection(event.result as Array);
<mx:Button enabled="{myArray.length>0}" .....>
The above was done from the top of my head, but you get the
idea...
Use DataBinding!!!!
Ries