[FLEX-18016] loadSkin() and unloadSkin() badly named

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Spark: SkinnableComponent
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Safari; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 10/Mar/09 04:43
• Updated: 15/Apr/11 15:16
• Resolved: 30/Apr/09 16:48

Description

These methods are badly named as generally there will be no loading and unloading taking place in these methods.

The docs state

"This method instantiates the skin for the component, adds the skin as a child of the component, and resolves all part associations for the skin"

This doesn't mention any loading, and although it would be possible, it's unlikely loading will be take place here.

createSkin() and destroySkin() are much more app, and also fit in with the current API (i.e. createChildren() isn't loadChildren()).