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How To Create Bindable Properties (using Getters and Setters Methods) in Flex
Andrei Ionescu | 26.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Let’s say you created a new component and you want to add some properties that need to be bindable. Something like this:

<flexer:myComp width="400" height="200" myNewSetter="{_myData}" />
<mx:Script>
[Bindable]
private var _myData:String= "";
</mx:Script>

And when we do this

_myData = "new_val_1";

the myComp component should know that _myData has changed and should modify itself [...]

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rodiq: I looked a lot for a multiselect component, it is just great! In my case, I just modified it to work with...
Nami: Thank you !!
Gert-Jan van der Wel: It seems to work when you pass in the whole path of the class. var myClass:Class =...
Andrei Ionescu: Cornelius, thanks for your fix.
Cornelius: In the end, you forgot the case of a right-aligned image: if (getStyle("horizontalAlign") == "right")...