I feel like I've seen something like this before, but not sure where and searches aren't turning up anything useful. A library like this would evaluate xpath-like string expressions that would resolve to references to actual components (if they exist) in a Flex application's display list tree.
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these might help:
http://code.google.com/p/xpath-as3/wiki/GettingStarted
http://flexcomps.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/xpath-with-as3/
http://apdevblog.com/actionscript3-e4x-and-xpath/
http://lab.arc90.com/2010/04/28/actionscript-3-xpath-library/
Eugene
2010-08-31 14:41:49
how does it apply to searching the display list ?
David
2010-09-01 06:28:48
Ditto. Doesn't answer the question.
Julian
2010-09-01 07:56:59
yeah, but its a good start to write own class of thing you want, so get the current UI classes and try to encapsulate them in your new class
Eugene
2010-09-01 13:57:10