title: How to access data of parent container from custom view in Flex?
body: <p>I have in Flex a TabNavigator container and in all tabs I have the same view (a bunch of buttons and a grid).</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;mx:TabNavigator id="myTabThing"&gt;
              &lt;mx:VBox label="First tab"
                       width="100%"
                       height="100%"&gt;
                  &lt;view:myView/&gt;
              &lt;/mx:VBox&gt;
              &lt;mx:VBox label="Second tab"
                       width="100%"
                       height="100%"&gt;
                  &lt;view:myView/&gt;
              &lt;/mx:VBox&gt;
          &lt;/mx:TabNavigator&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I, in myView.mxml, get grasp on data of the tab navigator thing?
  I should very much like to be able to do something such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;mx:Text text="{myTabThing.selectedChild}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Or actually something more complicated based on the selected child (change the populating of the list inside the myView view).</p>
  
  <p>Total Flex newbie here, so sorry if my question is dumb.</p>