@Peter: Unfortunately I currently do not have the time to look into the situation you’re describing, I will look at it when I have more time (as I said hopefully in about seven days).
I really appreciate that you are giving me feedback about your experiences with the HTMLStyle component, so thanks!

However, I’ve found a situation when HTMLStyle’s styleSheet doesn’t propagate. It happens when the application uses states - mx:State and when HTMLStyle instance is defined in the default (”) mx:State.

However, even when compiling demo.mxml, I get two warnings on lines 80 and 86: Data binding will not be able to detect assignments to ’styleSheet’. Those warnings are same as the ones I get in my code that uses mx:State. So I’ve tried to add an explicit event to styleSheet property, i.e. [Bindable(event="styleSheetGotChanged")] public var styleSheet:StyleSheet= new StyleSheet() and then I dispatched new event at every place where styleSheet was asisigned to, but that didn’t help.

Now question: is there any specific reason why in HTMLStyle init() must be called from application’s CREATION_COMPLETE event when using CDATA content CSS rather than source? Couldn’t I just directly invoke it from HTMLStyle constructor, or from application’s early events e.g. creationComplete?

My line of thought is: since HTMLInstance.styleSheet doesn’t get bound to (for whatever Flex reason) properly in other mx:State states, how about having HTMLStyle instance in default mx:State and assigning its styleSheet to a variable, which I then use in other ms:State states?

thank you

I’m only using the external stylesheet for Anchor hover and rollover effects for my and do not need to toggle back and forth.

Do you know of a solution that does not require the createComplete to load the function. Would rather these styles be set on the page without having to call this function after the Application has loaded.

All I’m trying to do is set anchor hover and rollover states via an external style sheet. Have you seen any quick, simple examples of this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Matt

Are you absolutely sure you ran the demo and didn’t just mean that you used the classes in your own project?

The HTMLStyle component stores its style declarations in StyleSheet objects, and text in Flex (and Flash too) can only get styles from either StyleSheets or TextFormat, not both at the same time..