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reflection [as3]

[we're not talking about those mirror-images that were hip in Flash for a year.] reflection allows your code to inspect its own properties, methods, type, parent-type… . used in recipes including copying xml values to object properties & creating a decorator which extends proxy. I’m putting useful examples below, in one convient spot. ReflectionUtil.rtf includes: [...]

object-oriented as2 development

built a game banner which published to flash 7. requirements included being

the interface is your friend

picnik has the friendliest registration process i have ever experienced with immediate, intuitive, consistent feedback.

moxie & me

“moxie & me,” it sounds like a chick flick. Hell, with the amount of time i spend with Moxie… Flex Builder 3 (aka “Moxie”) Beta 2 is engaged in a user-friendly direction. Unlike my relationships. Adobe is all over their bug database. Moxie’s current character flaws are worth noting: Pre-Moxie workspaces will act irreverant. Import [...]

Grabbing the swf’s URL when the swf is loaded

I finally got fed up with recompiling our Flex application for the different servers I had to deploy to and decided to have it automatically figure out where it is and configure itself. This should have been relatively simple as the swf’s URL is known by the Flash player and was always available in Flash [...]

flex bug makes 9-slice seem slippery

an especially relevant bug to anyone skinning, 9-slice is non-operative on bitmap assets imported from flash. this lost me a couple hours while skinning tonik.

SearchCoders Dashboard: apollo app integrates as3 dev's

Find code & commentary.  Provides mail list tracking, RSS feed pulls, Search, plus Chat about Flex/Apollo/Flash.

Bindings to E4X don’t work as expected

Our current application uses a large XML structure to send data back and forth between the frontend and backend. This is a legacy interface which was created 2-3 years ago by the developers of a Flash 6 version of the same application and has stuck with the system since then. If I had my druthers [...]

Only one Validator per element??

Further work with Flex Validators has lead me to find yet another limitation. You can have only one Validator per element. If you attempt to apply multiple Validators for one element you end up with the last one fired usually taking precedence as its errorString and valid/invalid events are the last set/fired. I do see [...]

RadioButtonGroup is not an IValidatorListener

While building out a new framework for a series of highly form-centric applications in Flex 2 I ran into a strange problem. Seeing as I’m now using Flex I wanted to do things the right way and use a Validator to make sure that a value was selected. Imagine my surprise when the validation didn’t [...]