Flex: How to Call a Custom Component's Public Function in the Main App?

How do I call a custom component's public function from the main app. For example, I've got a timer component, MyTimer.

In the main app, I want to call startTim开发者_如何学JAVAer() or stopTimer().

In the main app, I've got:

<visualcomponent:MyTimer />

In the component, I've got:

public function startTimer():void {
     baseTimer = getTimer();
     t.start();
     }

Any suggestions? Thank you.

-Laxmidi

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You need to set an ID for your component so that the instance can be referenced:

<visualcomponent:MyTimer id="myTimer" />

Now you can say in your main app's script code:

myTimer.startTimer();