Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Multiple initializers for property 'dataprovider'

So, while migrating from Flex 3 to Flex 4, I'm going through the

  • change namespaces
  • move mx: to fx:
  • wrap non-UIComponents into <fx:Declarations>
The next round of compiler errors is
"Multiple initializers for property 'dataProvider'. (note: 'dataProvider' is the default property of 'mx.controls.ComboBox').

Super useful error message here. 
Thanks to the hint at http://www.freeflowingcode.com/blog/flex/flex-multiple-initializers I noticed that there where still non-visual elements inside these components. 

Wrapping these elements into <fx:Declarations> made the error go away. 

So I guess that the take-away is, for components that use a dataProvider, and whose default property is dataProvider, you get a cryptic error message when your <Declarations> are not inside the correct tag. 

1 comment:

  1. Hey, thanks for the props and always happy to help another dev.

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