Comments on: WindowShade component added to FlexLib

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:21:21 +0000

Zee & Doug:
I had an issue where my AIR app would crash when using a WindowShade going from Flex 3 to Flex 4. I had to add a style for the headerClass in WindowShades. Try adding a style to your project like:

@namespace flexlib “http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/”;
flexlib|WindowShade {
headerClass:ClassReference(“mx.controls.Button”);
}

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 06 May 2011 20:29:15 +0000

Hi Doug,

I am having the exactly same problem as Hariprasad is above.

Could you help us out with this.

Best
Zee

By: Hariprasad

Hariprasad — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:25:20 +0000

Hi Doug,

I like to use Your WindowShade in my application.

But I am facing an issue with WindowShade in flex4, I have changed my application from flex3 to flex 4.The issue is i am not able to use WindowShade in my application.If i add the WindowShade while running the application nothing is showing in the browser. If i change the WindowShade to Panel or Some other container it is working fine.I am new to flex.

Could you please help me to get rid of this…

By: CC

CC — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:27:12 +0000

Hi Doug, I love the windowShade. One question. When the windowshade is first clicked, it is not opening or closing… from the second click onward, it works fine. Is this a problem for anyone else? Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks.

By: tth

tth — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:22:26 +0000

Hi Doug, similar to David, can I find out what you did to fix “TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. at flexlib.containers::WindowShade/createOrReplaceHeaderButton()[/Users/groumly/Development/workspace-3.5-flex4/FlexLib/src/flexlib/containers/WindowShade.as:258]” ??

Thank you.

By: Arnie

Arnie — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:09:25 +0000

Hey guys,

Have any of you guys been able to have the default arrow displayed for the windowshade component in flex 4? I can’t seem to get it displayed. Everything else works.

cheers
Anh

By: David

David — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:38:35 +0000

Doug:
I have the same issue, but, don’t understand what you fixed. Can you clarify your last post?

I’m using linkButtonWindowShade in few places in my app also, and have component extending WindowShade, should this style also be included here?

Thanks,
David

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:54:47 +0000

Ok, got it sorted – My issue was related to nesting of WindowShades, whereas in Flex3 I only need define stylename in the parent WindowShade – in Flex4 I need to define stylename for all nested instances as well. I didn’t look back at the Flex3 WindowShade docs but I did see that headerClass has no inheritance in Flex4 docs, which I assume was the issue.
HTH
Doug

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:20:20 +0000

I have what seems to be similar issue to Srini, except that moving styles out of component did not resolve issue. The error begins: “TypeError: Error #1007: Instantiation attempted on a non-constructor. at flexlib.containers::WindowShade/createOrReplaceHeaderButton()[/Users/groumly/Development/workspace-3.5-flex4/FlexLib/src/flexlib/containers/WindowShade.as:258]”

From WindowShade.as:
else {
var headerClass:Class = getStyle(“headerClass”);
258… _headerButton = new headerClass();
}

This indicates to me that the issue is with headerClass, as defined in styles in main.mxml:
.linkButtonWindowShade {
headerClass:ClassReference(‘mx.controls.LinkButton’);
header-style-name: linkButtonStyle;
…..

Not sure…thoughts appreciated

By: Srini

Srini — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:55:56 +0000

Got it , component class wasn’t able to find headerlcass , which exists in stylesheet.

Thanks
Srini