I have a very simple, 4 State, page. Each State is called Pie, Bar, Line, and
Grid. Each has ONE child with a canvas tag having the same ID as the state.
Exampe Attached.
All I want to be able to do it print the appropriate state by evaulating the
'currentState' to know which chart (canvas id) to print as in:
printChart.addObject(currentState);
In coldfusion I would have used Evaulate("currentState"). It's obviously not
cold fusion but it's what I know. I am sure there should be an easy way to
accomplish the same.
thanks for much for any input.
Best,
Kevin C.

<mx:State name="Bar">
<mx:AddChild>
<mx:Canvas id="Bar" width="100%" height="100%">
code
</mx:canvas>
</mx:State>

same for pie, line, and grid.

I don't like states and don't do much printing, but it sounds like you need
bracket notation.

To get a reference to any runtime component with an id, you do:
parent["myIdValue"]

So if you nave a canvas in the main app with an id="Bar" you can do:
var sId:String = "Bar";
var myCanvas:Canvas = this[sId]; //"Bar is a child/prpperty of the main app,
'this'
Alert.show(myCanvas.whatever.)

Tracy

I don't like states and don't do much printing, but it sounds like you need
bracket notation.

To get a reference to any runtime component with an id, you do:
parent["myIdValue"]

So if you nave a canvas in the main app with an id="Bar" you can do:
var sId:String = "Bar";
var myCanvas:Canvas = this[sId]; //"Bar is a child/prpperty of the main app,
'this'
Alert.show(myCanvas.whatever.)

Tracy

I don't like states and don't do much printing, but it sounds like you need
bracket notation.

To get a reference to any runtime component with an id, you do:
parent["myIdValue"]

So if you nave a canvas in the main app with an id="Bar" you can do:
var sId:String = "Bar";
var myCanvas:Canvas = this[sId]; //"Bar is a child/prpperty of the main app,
'this'
Alert.show(myCanvas.whatever.)

Tracy