this.parentDocument for actionscript file

Are you using CustomLookup in your MXML

Can be two problems:
1) parentDocument is not instance of CustomLookup
add one line above trace(parentDocument );
2) in CustomLookup.as file you don't have public function parseSearchText
you can validate by:
var lookup: CustomLookup= this.parentDocument as CustomLookup;
trace(lookup.hasOwnProperty("parseSearchText"));

actually i am getting an error  
on this line
var searchString : String = (this.parentDocument as CustomLookup).parseSearchText();
                        

The error is
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

Did you read what I am suggestion?

replace by

trace("Is CustomLookup=" + this.parentDocument is CustomLookup);
var lookup: CustomLookup= this.parentDocument as CustomLookup;
trace("Is accessible to parseSearchText="+lookup.hasOwnProperty("parseSearchText"));
var searchString : String = lookup.parseSearchText();

Hi i tried this and getting this responce in console

trace("Is CustomLookup=" + this.parentDocument is CustomLookup);
false

var lookup: CustomLookup= this.parentDocument as CustomLookup;
trace("Is accessible to parseSearchText="+lookup.hasOwnProperty("parseSearchText"));
getting error here: TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

var searchString : String = lookup.parseSearchText();

thanks

You got answer in first trace. You are customhouse to wrong class. Check what type of parentDocument

yeah.Actually this is what i am doing

In CustomLookup.as i am using this code
/**
 * Prepares the datagrid column from dataFieldCollection.
 * */
public function createDataGridColumns () : void {
columns = new Array();
for each (var object : Object in dataFieldCollection){
var col : DataGridColumn = new DataGridColumn();
col.headerText = object.headerText;
col.dataField = object.dataField;
col.width = object.width;
if ( object.dataField != CHECKHBOX ) {
col.itemRenderer = new ClassFactory ( org.ms.views.components.renderers.DataLabelForGrid );
} else {
col.itemRenderer = new ClassFactory ( org.ms.views.components.renderers.SelectCheckBox );
}
columns.push( col );
}
dataGrid.columns = columns;
}



and in DataLabelForGrid.mxml  i have

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Label xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
      
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridListData;
import mx.core.Application;
import org.ms.views.components.CustomLookup;
override public function set data ( value : Object ) : void {
super.data = value;
var strData : String = value as String;                        
var labelString : String = value[DataGridListData(listData).dataField] as String;
trace("parent doc=" + this.parentDocument);  
//here i want this.parentDocument to  be CustomLookup
Any idea how i can make this.parentDocument as CustomLookup ?
if (searchString.text = "jay") {
this.setStyle( "color", "yellow" );
}  
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
</mx:Label>

In DataLabelForGrid.mxml create public variable

public var lookup:CustomLookup;

Now modify you CustomLookup.as

if ( object.dataField != CHECKHBOX ) {
var cf:ClassFactory = new ClassFactory ( org.ms.views.components.renderers.DataLabelForGrid );
cf.properties = {lookup:this};
col.itemRenderer = cf;
} else {


That should assign lookup variable during constractor

now you can use  "lookup" variable  in your DataLabelForGrid.mxml

I didn't compile but should work

nice, but i did not understand how it works :)
cf.properties = {lookup:this};  what does this line do ?

>>That should assign lookup variable during constractor
so lookup is assigned to CustomLookup in constructor of CustomLookup ?

thanks

THANKS!