Question

I have a list of text files and when one is selected it is read and assigned to a string variable. this string is then pushed to a view : pushView(viewer, string), where the string is displayed in a textarea. I want to also pass the relative path of the file also. Is this possible to pass two strings?

protected function view1_viewActivateHandler(event:ViewNavigatorEvent):void
            {
                if(data!=null){
                    mainTextField.text = data.toString();
                }else{
                    mainTextField.text = "";
                }
            }

Answer 1

Yes it is possible. Typically the way I do this in Flex is to add a data property on my view of type Object allowing me to pass any type of object into the view.

In your case I would change pushView(viewer, string) to something like pushView(viewer, data) where data is some object that stores all the data you need to pass to the view. data might look like:

var data:Object = { text: "my text to display", 
                    relativePath: "the/relative/path" };