Hi Scott, The linking of all the projects and sub-projects into the style project finally fixed Issue no. 2.
Thank you for your help! - David -----Original Message----- From: Scott Talsma [mailto:sc...@talsma.tv] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 1:58 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Flex 4.6 Spark Skin question David, Is there a particular reason you are maintaining two separate projects? Is it your intention to share the skins across projects? One thing you can try to it add your skins directory as a secondary source root. I'm not sure how to do it in FlashBuilder, but I recall it being pretty simple. That would probably solve both problems. But if you attempt to reuse projectSkin in a third project, you will still have to contend w/references to possibly non-existent HostComponents that are referenced in Project1. HTH, Scott On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:45 PM, David Frank <david.fr...@on24.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > First time mailing the group. Let me introduce myself. I've been > working on Flex 3.2 for the past 6 years, and I've only recently > upgraded my project to Flex 4.6. > > I'm having difficulty in two areas and I've Googled the hell out of > this but all the web links that seem to have the answers, are dead. > Serves me right for upgrading 6 years after Flex 4 was introduced. > > Anyway, I'm hoping some of you might have the answer to my issues. > > Issue 1: > I have a main Flex project for my application. I have a separate Flex > project (a "style" project) that has all the style definitions and > assets in it. The .css file is located under src/skin folder inside > this style project. The problem is that I'm not able to > 'ClassReference' my skin class. The compiler keeps throwing an error > saying that the class is not found. Here is my sample: > > custom|CustomItemRendererComponent > { > skinClass: > ClassReference("skin.sparkSkins.SkinForCustomItemRendererComponent"); > } > > If I move my .css file directly under the src folder, then the > compiler seems to find the class. If it is under src/skin, this > breaks. Can someone tell me if there is a workaround for this without > having to move the .css file directly under the src folder? > > > Issue 2: > A skin class is inside a separate Flex project (a "style" project as > mentioned above). I am unable to declare the HostComponent inside the > skin class if this is a custom component belonging to the main Flex project. > Here is my sample: > > [HostComponent("custom.itemRenderers.CustomItemRendererComponent")] > > The CustomItemRendererComponent is defined inside the main Flex Project. > So, I thought that this was the reason the compiler is not able to > find the class. So, I linked the entire main Flex project in the > Source Path of my style project. But this still does not get rid of > the error. I even get the class in the code hinting, but the compiler > doesn't see the class. (Please note that this error happens even if I > have the .css file directly under the src folder of the style > project.) The error goes away only if I physically move the > CustomItemRendererComponent skin class somewhere inside the style > project itself. This is not feasible unfortunately since I have other > classes referenced inside the skin class and so on. Can someone help > please? Is there a way I can fix the compiler error or maybe tell the > compiler to ignore this "error" in any way? FYI, until this error goes > away, I'm forced to change the HostComponent to > "spark.components.SkinnableContainer" (super class of > CustomItemRendererComponent). I would prefer to use the actual custom > component class though. > > > Thank you in advance for your help! > > Cheers, > > David Frank >
