Individual MXML files for each tab

[dave80210]

I'm fairly new to flash programming and I can't find what I'm looking for, although it seems like it should be a fairly common practice. Maybe someone out there can help.

I'm building a flash application (there will be a web version and an AIR version) that has six tabs defined in MXML. Each tab will have a layout that I'd like to define in seperate MXML files, each which will have to handle events and data.

So how do I build a project like this where the main MXML file includes the sub MXML files? I'm using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3 from the command line in Linux.

Thanks in advance!

[ljuwaidah]

You can add the tab components as separate mxml components.

ie: Tab1.mxml, Tab2.mxml

then you can put them in the tab as normal components after adding the folder as a namespace, something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" xmlns:tabs="org.ljuwaidah.tabs.*">
<tabs:Tab1 id="tab1" width="100%" height="100%"/>
<tabs:Tab2 id="tab2" width="100%" height="100%"/>
</mx:Application>

i haven't used tabs much so i'm not sure how to put components inside tabs but that should be fairly easy for you. Do ask and i'll look it up for you.

[dave80210]

That works. Thanks ljuwaidah!