Flash/Flex Integration: SWFLibrary v1.5

Usually I like to post glamorous stuff, like 3D swirly things and experiments. Occasionally, however, I feel the need to release a little code in the interest of helping a few people out. This code is a review of sorts, since I already posted a similar utility back in June. However, since […]

Compiling Astro with Flex 3

From my experience, I estimate that actually reading Adobe’s instructions before trying this will save you approximately four and a half hours.

Broadcasting Events from Custom MXML Components - The [Event] Tag

Okay, this was hard for me to wrap my brain around, so let me summarize, in case anyone else is stuck on this. When developing in Flex, all the standard components let you specify a listener when you create them in MXML, like this:

<mx:Button id="someButton" click="handleClick( event );"/>

Now when someone clicks on someButton, it […]

MXML Singletons in Flex 3

Okay, so I’ve been putting together a little image-viewer component in Flex, and I wanted it to load one data model that all other components would share. Sounds like a job for a Singleton, right? However, I also wanted to instantiate said model from MXML, which adds some kinks. In fact, I’ve heard it said that it’s not possible at all. And after some trial and error, I found that apparently it is possible- you just have to hack around a little bit.

Flex 3 + Game Dev = Awesome

First of all, a synopsis of this entry so you don’t have to read the whole thing. First, I’m going to reminisce in a slightly condescending tone. Then, I’m going to suddenly switch tacks and turn my reminiscence into a rather awkward metaphor about how Flex rocks. Then I’ll say something like “download Adobe Flex 3 here and try it for game development.” So if that’s enough to convince you, you can stop reading here. If not, read on! There’s another link to download the Flex trial at the bottom of this post.