Controller control does not allow Controller refs

[confile]

Inside a controller I want to add a new Action. When I click on the plus sometimes there is no reaction, i.e., no new action occurs. After a while I get a new action and I was asked for a "target type". The problem here is that the input field does not work to enter something:

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you have to choose it from the list, but in the next step "choose an event binding" it is working fine.

[Phil.Strong]

for controller references use
v References config

Also note you can drag and drop from the toolbox as well

[confile]

this is not my point. the textfield is still not working.

[sunaku]

ExtJS 4.1.1 doesn't have the ability to use refs inside control(). That's why Sencha Architect does not show user-defined references in that dropdown menu. I wish it did though! It's repetitive (possible source of human error!) to define controller references and then also have to use the same reference definition in our controller actions.

[Phil.Strong]

Are you saying you want type ahead? So you can narrow down the set?

Also note you can click controller action from the drop down using a modifier (shift, ctrl, cmd) and it will bypass this interstitial screen.

You can also add an action via the toolbox.

[sunaku]

Hello Phil,

Thanks for your suggestion. It seems my comment was off-topic, as I was referring to a different limitation altogether: although we're able to define Reference nodes (composed of a name and selector) under a Controller, we cannot reuse those Reference nodes when specifying the controlQuery in ControllerAction objects.

For example, look at the attachments I have added to this post. Here, I have (1) a button with itemId=foo and (2) a Reference that points to it called foo and I want to use that Reference directly in the controlQuery (3) of my ControllerAction.

Currently, I'm forced to copy/paste the selector value of my Reference into the controlQuery of my ControllerAction. As a result, if my design changes, I have to manually go through every ControllerAction in addition to simply updating all References. That is all very laborious and (human-)error prone IMHO.

If Sencha Architect allowed us to use a Controller's References directly in its ControllerActions, then there would be less copy/pasted code and the design (and its glue logic) would be easier to change.

Thanks for your consideration.