[CLOSED]Component.ref does not work anymore

[htammen]

has the config option ref of class Component been removed?
In Ext 3.3 I used this technique to get a reference to a component quite frequently because it produces much more readable code.
Is this available in Ext 4.0 or will it come back?

[kaigan]

It have been replaced with ComponentQuery, see aconran's post here: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...8-Ref-Property

[htammen]

thank you. I´ve already seen this new class but it makes the code more unreadable than

Ext.getCmp('myId').on(...) 

In Ext 3.3 I used

this.myId.on(...) 

and with ComponentQuery it would be

Ext.ComponentQuery.query('#myId')[0].on(...) 

Decide by yourself which on is most readable. I hope the guys from Sencha read this and reconceive their decision to remove the ref config option.

[evant]

// for direct child
this.child('selector').on(....);

// for first matching child, any level
this.down('selector').on();

[steffenk]

i think ref was not a bad idea, however you had to know the level of the component.
There was already a discussion, and i hope to get something like referenced items in a component for easy assign.
Easy would be a wrapper for ComponentQuery like this.getChildComponent(selector) - i prefer such for better readability, and to be different from DOM queries. At the end it's also a kind of taste.

[evant]

@steffenk

Those methods are there. Container has:
query
child
down

Component has:
up