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Whirlpools
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February 21, 2009
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Disappearing links?

  • February 21, 2009
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I've been using the mxmlChildren setter in ActionScript to add multiple elements to textflows and paragraphs at once. After trying the last two Gumbo builds, it seems like whenever I use mxmlChildren setter to append an array of links and spans to a textflow or to a paragraph, the links do not show up for some reason (but the other spans do). Has the way this method worked changed? Is there something special I need to do for links?

Edit: Actually, I made a coding mistake while trying to reproduce the issue. The links are still disappearing from my application when changing the Flex compiler to the last two Gumbo builds for some reason. mxmlChildren doesn't seem to be the problem though.

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Correct answer rdermer
I recommend calling replaceChildren directly.

mxmlChildren is intended for compiled mxml and has special handling intended of the children intended only for that case. It tosses out links if they aren't in a paragraph.

Of course if you call replaceChildren on a TextFlow, for example, it'll throw if you add links that aren't in paragraphs.

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rdermerCorrect answer
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February 21, 2009
I recommend calling replaceChildren directly.

mxmlChildren is intended for compiled mxml and has special handling intended of the children intended only for that case. It tosses out links if they aren't in a paragraph.

Of course if you call replaceChildren on a TextFlow, for example, it'll throw if you add links that aren't in paragraphs.
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WhirlpoolsAuthor
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February 23, 2009
Thanks. I didn't notice the replaceChildren method before.
I was using mxmlChildren repeatedly on the same paragraph to append different links and text. It seems like that was messing things up (not appending correctly maybe?).
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