Hello Fellow stackoverflowers,
I´m stuck writing a piece of code. I have application with a viewstack witch load 5 modules. each module is loaded via the moduleLoader tag and they all have an id.
Every loaded module has a context menu. the context menu has 5 menuItems. one menuItem for each view for the viewstack.
The context menu is loaded via xml.
this is my application file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute"
backgroundColor="#b1b1b1"
backgroundGradientColors="[#b1b1b1,#252525]">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.core.Container;
//change viewstack views via modules context menu
public function switchView(viewId:String):void
{
var container:Container = Container(tops.getChildByName(viewId));
if (container != null)
{
tops.selectedChild = container;
}
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:ViewStack id="tops" width="100%" height="100%">
<mx:ModuleLoader id="admin" url="view/admin.swf" width="100%" height="100%"/>
<mx:ModuleLoader id="tv" url="view/tv.swf" width="100%" height="100%"/>
<mx:ModuleLoader id="community" url="view/community.swf" width="100%" height="100%"/>
<mx:ModuleLoader id="shop" url="view/shop.swf" width="100%" height="100%"/>
<mx:ModuleLoader id="communicator" url="view/communicator.swf" width="100%" height="100%"/>
</mx:ViewStack>
</mx:Application>
and this is my switch statement in my Module
public function changeView():void{
switch(action) {
case "admin":
parentApplication.switchView("admin");
break;
case "tv":
parentApplication.switchView("tv");
break;
case "shop":
parentApplication.switchView("shop");
break;
case "community":
parentApplication.switchView("community");
break;
case "default":
parentApplication.switchView("communicator");
break;
}
}
and this is my context menu xml
<mx:XML id="appMenu">
<root>
<menuitem enabled="false"/>
<menuitem label="Administration" action="admin" icon="adminMDI"/>
<menuitem label="Television" action="tv" icon="tvMDI"/>
<menuitem label="Community" action="community" icon="communityMDI"/>
<menuitem label="Shopping Mall" action="shop" icon="shoppingMallMDI"/>
<menuitem label="Communicator" action="default" icon="communicatorMDI"/>
</root>
</mx:XML>
What i would like to do is switch the views in the viewstack by clicking on one of the menuitems in the context menu. i can't communicate from my module to the application. What am i doing wrong? what must i do? Can anybody help me out?
Oyeah before i forget
the xml of the context menu is in the module but, the context menu is in a as file that extensiate a button.
please can any body give me a good example how to accomplish this.
Thank
DJ