I know an ItemRenderer is a ClassFactory and that you can use the newInstance method of ClassFactory to get an instance of the ItemRenderer. My question, however, is is it possible to use methods of the ItemRenderer without using ClassFactory.newInstance()?
In my case I can't use this newInstance method because it doesn't keep the state.
Is there any way I can do this? Thanks!
An ItemRenderer is a component, like any other. The itemRenderer property of a list based class has a value of a ClassFactory. If you have a reference to an instance of the itemRenderer component, you can call methods on it.
You cannot call a method on any component if an instance if that component instance has not been created yet. So to call a method on an itemRenderer without using ClassFactory.newInstance() you must manually create your own instance using the new keyword.