Flex: access dynamically added RicheEditableText in other function

Question

When I click on a userlist, the function addTab is triggered:

private var counter:int = 0;

public function addTab():void {
    var new vBox:VBox = new VBox();
    var textBox:RichEditableText = new RichEditableText();
    var nameEm:String = "dynamicTextBox" + counter;
    textBox.id = nameEm;
    counter++;
    var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow();
    vbox.addChild(textFlow);
    vbox.addChild(textBox);
    tabNavigator.add(vBox);
}

In another function, I would like to add Rich Text to the newly created TextBox, but I can not access it.

I tried getChildByName(vbox) and vbox.getChildByName(textBox), but that doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

To get childbyname assigned a name to richeditable text and if you want to get it by counter then give name to vbox also, as in the sample here:

private var counter:int = 0;

public function addTab():void {
    var new vBox:VBox = new VBox();
    var textBox:RichEditableText = new RichEditableText();
    var nameEm:String = "dynamicTextBox" + counter;
    textBox.id = nameEm;
    vBox.name=nameEm;
    textBox.name=nameEm;
    counter++;
    var textFlow:TextFlow = new TextFlow();
    vbox.addChild(textFlow);
    vbox.addChild(textBox);
    tabNavigator.add(vBox);
}

If you know the index then

var vb:VBox = tabNavigator.getChildByName("dynamicTextBox"+index) as VBox;
var txt:RichEditableText=vb.getChildByName("dynamicTextBox"+index) as VBox;

So this will give you RichEditableText.

Or if you want to get access just after adding in to tab then return RichEditableText from the addtab function.