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June 26, 2009

E4x and as3 gotcha

I love E4X in AS3. It's powerful and fairly simple. If you haven't worked with it yet, check out Roger Braunstein's excellent tutorial. But I was recently annoyed by this gotcha when doing some xml combining. Let's say you have this:
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XML:

<xml>

    <people>

        <person id="123">

            <name>John</name>

  [...]

March 30, 2009

Ignoring files in Flex Builder Navigator

I don't like seeing .svn or CVS files in my Flex Builder/Eclipse workspace. I'll never need to edit those files directly, and if I do, I won't use Flex Builder to do it. But if they're in your project, they'll show up in the Navigator panel. Everywhere.
Fortunately, Eclipse provides a way to filter files in [...]

March 16, 2009

Are your event handlers bad?

Event handlers can be bad. They're not intrinsically bad - that's how shit gets done in AS3. It's the way they often get written that can be bad. Consider the following example:
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Actionscript:

package

{

    import fl.motion.Color;

    import flash.display.DisplayObject;

    import flash.display.Sprite;

    import flash.events.Event;

    import flash.events.MouseEvent;

    public class Nothing [...]