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Creating Template Components

Defining an array of template properties

You can define an array of template properties, as the following example shows:

// Define an Array of deferred properties for a row of components.
// Do not restrict the type of the component.
[ArrayElementType("mx.core.IDeferredInstance")]
public var bottomRow:Array;

// Define an Array of deferred properties for a row of components.
// Restrict the type of the component to mx.controls.Button.
[InstanceType("mx.controls.Button")]
[ArrayElementType("mx.core.IDeferredInstance")]
public var bottomRow:Array;

In the first example, you can assign a value of any data type to the bottomRow property. Each 
array element's 

getInstance()

 method is not called until the element is used.