I’m not sure if anyone else has run into this…. So for some reason, when writing Flex apps I have been relying on the creationComplete event to initialize my application, but at the time that event fires off the stage is not available yet. I found out there is an applicationComplete event, and after this event is fired off the stage is available.
07
Jan
08
If the code to be executed only has the requirement that the object has been added to the stage, an alternative is to add a listener for the Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE to occur. Example:
public class MyClass extends Canvas
{
import flash.events.Event;
import mx.containers.Canvas;
public function MyClass()
{
super();
this.addEventListener( Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, this.addedToStageHandler );
}
private function addedToStageHandler( e:Event ):void
{
/* do something */
}
}