Trouble with Flex 3 styles not fully applying to dynamically generated tabs within a TabNavigator

When using ActionScript to dynamically create a tab, I noticed that the style is applied to the skins but not to the text of the newly created tab until I click on another tab and then go back to it.

ActionScript

private function clickAddTabHandler(event:Event):void{
   var vbox:VBox = new VBox;
   var tab:Canvas = new (Canvas);
   vbox.label = "Select Location";
   vbox.addChild(tab);
   tabBar.addChild(vbox);
   tabBar.selectedIndex = tabBar.numChildren-1;
  }

MXML

<mx:TabNavigator id="tabBar" width="100%" height="100%" tabStyleName="tabNavigator" selectedTabTextStyleName="tabNavigatorSelected" tabHeight="19">

CSS

.tabNavigator
{
   disabledSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_disabledSkin.png",
    scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   downSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_downSkin.png",
   scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   overSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_overSkin.png",
   scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   upSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_upSkin.png",
   scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   selectedDisabledSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_selectedDisabledSkin.png",
       scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   selectedUpSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_selectedUpSkin.png",
       scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   selectedOverSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_selectedUpSkin.png",
       scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   selectedDownSkin: Embed(source="assets/skins/TabBar-tab_selectedUpSkin.png",
       scaleGridTop=1, 
       scaleGridLeft=20, 
       scaleGridBottom=18, 
       scaleGridRight=32);
   textAlign: left; 
   paddingLeft: 20; 
   paddingRight: 20; 
   fontSize: 11; 
   fontFamily: Helvetica Neue; 
   color: #FFFFFF;
   textRollOverColor: #FFFFFF;
}

.tabNavigatorSelected
{
   textAlign: left; 
   paddingLeft: 20; 
   paddingRight: 20; 
   fontSize: 11; 
   fontFamily: Helvetica Neue; 
   color: #135F9E; 
   textRollOverColor: #135F9E; 
   textSelectedColor: #135F9E;
}
cssapache-flexactionscript-3

Answer №1

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