Comments on: Skinning & Styling In Flex 3

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:44:00 +0000

Hi Jay,

Did you use my code added to the bottom of the post?

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:28:03 +0000

When I try the example code I get the error:

Access of undefined property menuBarItems.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

By: Rob S.

Rob S. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:39:24 +0000

Brilliant man, thank you for this!

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:34:26 +0000

@Martin – Check out the original post as i’ve added a link to the bottom showing my custom mxml file.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:57:46 +0000

I was just running into the same problem. I was originally going to skip the subclass and build my own menu bar based on the MenuBar code but then you hit the various dependency problems, e.g. the IMenuBarItemRenderer requires accessors for the concrete MenuBar type.

Its unfortunate that some parts of the framework are specified by interfaces but some other seemingly arbitrary parts are just concrete classes.

I think in this case the best option is to override those 2 methods, even though they end up running twice just because they put the margin as a constant.