Function to retrieve all children for an application or a View.

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Vaibhav/Steve

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Jan 7, 2010, 3:02:23 PM1/7/10

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Hi,

Sometimes, we want to access all/some UIComponents of the application
or a particular view.
I have written a simple function using the recursion concept to get it
done.
Function will push all the UIComponents in arrChilds:Array, which can
be further filtered to get a particular components, like all Buttons /
HBOx / TextInput.. etc.

To invoke the function, you just need to give the object of the view
and its class name as parameter. eg.

getDocumentChildrens(this,this.className); will retrieve all the
components for the current view.

private var arrChilds:Array;
private function getDocumentChildrens
(obj:Object,className:String=""):void
{

if(obj.className == className)
arrChilds = new Array();
else
arrChilds.push(obj);
if(!obj.hasOwnProperty("getChildren"))
return;
var arr:Array = obj.getChildren();
for each(var obj1:Object in arr)
{
getDocumentChildrens(obj1);
}
}