Flex resourceManager working perfect in one file and not at all in another

Question

I'm trying to use resourceManager in Flex for some localization. I'm having a strange problem where it works fine in the first file that I tried it in, but in the second it won't even compile.

Both files have

import mx.resources.ResourceBundle;

at the top and

[ResourceBundle("Hurley")]

above the class definition. The first one compiles fine, and pulls the text from the resources correctly at runtime.

The second file (which is in the same project but a different folder), will not compile, and every mention of resourceManager gives an error of "1120: Access of undefined property resourceManager."

For the two different uses:

In the file that works:

public function SeasonsComboBox() {
    this.labelFunction = function(obj:Object):String {
        return resourceManager.getString('Hurley','Season_word') + " " + obj.number;
    };
}

And the file that doesn't work:

public function getCarousels(seriesId:String, callback:Function):void {
    [...]
    ExternalInterface.addCallback("getCarouselsFailure", function():void {
            Alert.show(resourceManager.getString('Hurley','CarouselsFailure_text'), "Error", Alert.OK);
        });
    [...]
    }

I can't think of anything different I did in either file.

Edit, Solved:

resourceManager is defined in all UIComponent subclasses. The file that worked imported ComboBox. The files that didn't don't. In those files, I can make it work by calling:

ResourceManager.getInstance()

More information here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/resources/IResourceManager.html

Answer 1

The reason that you can't access the reourceManager property, is because it is probably not defined.

It is defined in UIComponent, so any class that extends a UIComponent that will have it defined. But, otherwise you have to define it yourself.

You can do so using something like this:

public var resourceManager:ResourceManager = ResourceManager.getInstance();