Changing currentState of Main and Customized Component in Flash Builder 4

Here is a short way to change the currentState of components from an external component, Note that this is based from my coding experience and somewhere out the net a better solution might exists.


Change state of Main from a customized component:

1) add this import script

import mx.core.FlexGlobals;

2) Access the main app by this:

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.currentState = 'NewStateName';

Change state of component that is displayed from Main:

NOTE: This might be also used to access variables and other public objects of that component.


1) add this import script:

import mx.core.FlexGlobals;

2) make sure that the component has an ID value

<component:ComponentName id="comp1" {..other variables} />

3) access the component from the main app

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.comp1.currentState = 'NewStateName';

Again these line of codes are based from my experience, if there is a better way of doing this, I would be glad to hear it via your comment.