accessing the stage from a uicomponent

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So I'm building a UIComponent that I want to be able to access the stage with. Only problem though, is due to the asynchronous approach to initializing ui components in flex, accessing the stage results in a null value in many of the different places I've checked.

Can anyone tell me at which point in the process can I actually access the stage? It's for setting up an event listener, so I'd want it to be part of initialization.

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Event.ON_ADDED_TO_STAGE

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I don't see that as a constant for event. I see Event.ADDED, but that still gets me null. I'm thinking its because its added to its parent before its parent is added to the display list.

EDIT: Ok, I did find a solution.....not sure if it's the best solution though:

PHP Code:

public function MyComponent(){
    this.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE, creationCompleteHandler);
}
    
private function init():void{
    trace(this.stage);
}

private function creationCompleteHandler(evt:FlexEvent):void{
    this.callLater(init);
} 


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Event.ON_ADDED_TO_STAGE was added in player 9.0.28.0 and Flex 2.0.1.