Comments on: Making sure your Flex is initialized

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:03:17 +0000

@Joe indeed - but it’s always better to be safe than sorry

Joeflash — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:33 +0000

Wouldn’t it be a better idea to disable user interaction until the Application.creationComplete event has been called?

Eric Cancil — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:45:41 +0000

oops forgot the getter

public function get theText():String{
return _theText;
}

Eric Cancil — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:45:00 +0000

Or you could choose to make things a lot more rigid and have it more like this

private var _theText:String;
private var theTextDirty:Boolean = false;
public var label:Label;

public function set theText(val:String):void{
_theText = val;
theTextDirty = true;
invalidateProperties();
}

override protected function commitProperties():void{

super.commitProperties();

if(theTextDirty){
theTextDirty = false;
label = _theText;
}
}