Question

I’ve embedded an image in my Flex mxml file (script section) using:

<fx:Script>
   <![CDATA[
   import com.views.myTitleWindowFile;
   ...
   [Embed(source="com/assets/image_error.png")]
   public static const IMG_ERROR:Class;
   ...

and it works fine. Now I want to use the same image in an mxml file named myTitleWindowFile (for a spark TitleWindow component), which was imported as shown above. The myTitleWindowFile.mxml gives an error on this line:

Alert.show("Please enter a value.", "Error",Alert.OK,null,null,IMG_ERROR);

The error states: 1120: Access of undefined property IMG_ERROR. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any comments.

Answer 1

Your myTitleWindowFile shouldn’t be accessing any resource in its parent. It can easily lead to a situation where you want to reuse that myTitleWindowFile in another area of your application that doesn’t have IMG_ERROR defined.

I would just declare IMG_ERROR in myTitleWindowFile and access it locally. It keeps your code cleaner and more portable.