Flex 4.6 Obtain Reference to Component within <s:Application> Skin
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I am building an application within Flex 4.6, which uses a custom skin on the main `<s:Application>`. This skin has several components inside of it which I would like to access from the main application.

I tried using `this.skin.getChildByName("<name of component within skin>")`, but it gave me a runtime error.

How can I access a component within the skin from the main application?