Natasha, Yep you missed a couple of steps from the older thread.
//Add to the BaseWidget.as
/**
* Added by me
* so that I could get the widget instance
*/
public function getInstance():BaseWidget
{
return _Widget;
}
//Add to the IBaseWidget.as
/**
* Used to get a refference to this widget for code
*/
function getInstance():BaseWidget;
//Add to the WidgetManagerDocked.mxml
public function getWidget(id:Number):IBaseWidget
{
var widget:IBaseWidget;
var label:String = configData.configWidgets[id].label;
var icon:String = configData.configWidgets[id].icon;
var config:String = configData.configWidgets[id].config;
var url:String = configData.configWidgets[id].url;
if (widgetTable.containsKey(id))
{
widget = widgetTable.find(id) as IBaseWidget;
widget.setState("maximized");
var wObj:DisplayObject = widget as DisplayObject;
scrollToWidget(wObj);
}
else
{
//module loaded
if (moduleTable.containsKey(url))
{
var modInfo:IModuleInfo = moduleTable.find(url) as IModuleInfo;
widget = modInfo.factory.create() as IBaseWidget;
widget.setId(id);
widget.setTitle(label);
widget.setIcon(icon);
widget.setConfig(config);
widget.setConfigData(configData);
widget.setMap(map);
var widgetDO:DisplayObject = widget as DisplayObject;
widgetBox.addChild(widgetDO);
widgetTable.add(id, widget);
}
else
{
return null;
loadWidget(id, url);
}
}
return widget;
}
