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I'm stuck with trying to get a text field for example in any view class in flex.
here is the thread in some detail but I feel I need to get hold of the distinction between flash and flex and the stage.

I'm used to getting the reftostage passed to the main stage mediator but I'm told I cannot add stuff to the stage in the normal flash way....here is the link

http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?p=932091&posted=1#post932091

The reference you are getting in Flex when you do facade.startup(this) is the reference to the MXML Application instance. Begin looking at the Flex API docs there. There is rarely a need to fiddle with the stage in Flex (except in AIR). You work primarily with the view hierarchy starting with the Application.

So if the App had a text box with the id "myText" then you could access it from your ApplicationMediator by app.myText.

-=Cliff>

Thanks, I'm trying to get flashvars populated into a value object firstly, and was needing the stage to place my views on. So I'm still thinking in the flash line way too much.

I could in theory have all my view components inside the main Application tags but the main issue I have with mxml is that I cannot seem to instantiate with parameters my custom classes. This is why I'm breaking out in pure script very quickly as I'm used to the flash way.

But I see where I have to go now, instead of using the ref to a view component like we pass round in the flash version of the framework we have to pass round the Application instance and use that instead.

Thanks I know enough to start moving onwards again.

Here is my flex pure mvc friendly flashVarsVo script

http://www.calvincrane.com/archives/270-Flex-Value-Object-Script.html

place it in your model package.

Here's the recommended way to handle FlashVars in a PureMVC app: http://forums.puremvc.org/index.php?topic=622.msg2781#msg2781

-=Cliff>