flex 4 and ApplicationMediator

[inconduit]

i'm switching from flex 3 to flex 4 and i'm hitting a few snags.

i create all my mediators in ApplicationMediator.  in flex 3, i listened for the ADDED_TO_STAGE event in ApplicationMediator to get references to all the instantiated views in the app.  now in flex 4, i get null references on a lot of the views within that added_to_stage event.

i'm probably missing something very basic here, but haven't been able to figure it out.  what event should i be listening to with ApplicationMediator to ensure that all of my views in the app are instantiated?

[puremvc]

If you don't startup your PureMVC app until after applicationComplete, then all of your children that aren't deferred¹ should be created by the time ApplicationMediator is registered. Which means in its onRegister you should be able to wrap Mediators around those children by name. Most ADDED_TO_STAGE events would be dispatched during the creation of the app before applicationComplete.

Can you tell us a little more about your startup timing?

-=Cliff>

¹  i.e. unseen children of a ViewStack whose creationPolicy isn't 'all'

[inconduit]

i never replied to this and i should have.

thanks cliff for the response, indeed i needed to wait until after applicationComplete before doing all of my mediator instantiation.  why i was triggering on added_to_stage i don't really know, i think it was just very old code that i wrote when i was just learning puremvc.