Preventing TabNavigator from selecting tabs.

I’ve been working for couple of weeks now on a large Flex 3 based project at the company I work for. It’s a multi-user  publishing system for various flash based creative types, that aids and alleviates the whole creative from concept creation through approval cycles to deployment on various platforms.

In this project I had a page that contained a tab navigator with a custom editors inside of it. It all worked fine, before I needed to make sure the data on the page is saved before going onto another tab. To make this work I had to essentialy force tab navigator to cancel select child action after user click on the other tab and the data on the current weren’t saved.

This proved to be a problem. Read the rest of this entry »