Comments on: Creating Your First Custom SkinnableComponent in Flex 4

By: Tahir Azeem Alvi

Tahir Azeem Alvi — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:53:20 +0000

Hi,

How i skin or apply the Css to Alert in Flex 4?

Thanks

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:58:32 +0000

In addition to extending partAdded and partRemoved functions, you can add event listeners to any visual component by following;
1. Add an event listener function to the component class. Ex: onDragEnter
2. In the skin file, specify this function by {hostComponent.functionName(event)}. Ex: dragEnter=”{hostComponent.onDragEnter(event)}”
This way you can speed up the development but if you want to remove this event listener, then you have to override partRemoved anyway. It just offers a quick solution.

By: Greg Lafrance

Greg Lafrance — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:30:05 +0000

The Flex 4 sample apps I have tried in this blog have not compiled for me thus far. Would it be possible for you to bring them up to speed with the current SDK so they work without having to change anything? I’ve learned a bit from trying to get them to work, but this one on skins I ultimately could not get to work as I get an error that the “data” property is unknown.

By: Deepa Subramaniam

Deepa Subramaniam — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:14:22 +0000

Regarding attachBehaviors/removeBehaviors vs. partAdded/partRemoved:

Since some components don’t have parts, attachBehaviors/removeBehaviors is for the adding and removing of event listeners to the skin object itself. When a component has parts, adding and removing of event listeners should happen in the partAdded/partRemoved methods.

Remember, all of these methods are optional and should only be overridden when you need to do extra work in those methods.

By: Chetan Sachdev

Chetan Sachdev — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:04 +0000

Nice, Have you got how to register for event, Say on click of a button I need alert. Looking into it.