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FLEXocubic (Flex & AS3)

Author:	exocubic	Created:	4/5/2008 4:22 PM
Adobe Flex and Action Script (AS3) development

Adobe's Fault: ColumnCharts in Flex for Live Data
	By exocubic on 6/19/2008 10:18 AM

I'm always careful (OK, not always) not to blame the vendor right out of the gates when I have a problem. This problem, however, I REALLY want to blame on Adobe - This blog is about isolating problems and knowing how to get the right information from a vendor when you have a deep issue with their tools...

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Custom Events
	By exocubic on 4/5/2008 2:22 PM

I recently encountered a need to build a custom event in Flex 3. I've done this plenty of times in other languages, but my first time in Flex was a bit more frustrating than I expected; there are a few oddities about how to declare the event name and ensuring it gets correctly called from the client object, etc. that I think would throw off a new developer, so I decieded to look for other examples people had posted on this kind of thing and maybe upload my own demo of the functionality. One good tutorial I found was this one: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=170 There are some decent notes in the Flex documentation, but they are pretty generic. Of course, you need to understand your reason for creating the event or else you are better off using a pre-defined event - this is the point the documentation makes; so, assuming you know you want a truly custom even ...

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