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The Adobe Platform Docs team has released a beta version of the new combined version of the ActionScript Language Reference called the Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Flash Platform. This reference documents the ActionScript packages and classes from Flash...
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This example shows how to display a list of links in a Flex List control and let the user click on the list items navigate to the links.
The following code declares a set of links in XML, binds them to a Flex List control, and then opens up each linked page in a new browser window when the user …
The new Flex 4 SDK is coming along quite nicely over at opensource.adobe.com. All you documentation geeks (there are some of you out there, right?) will be interested in the new ASDoc in MXML feature.In the past the ASDoc engine...
Adobe has posted the ActionScript 3.0 Coding Conventions that the Flex 3 engineers used while developing the framework. It's a great start.
To get the ASDoc utility that ships with Flex Builder 3 to recognize the new AIR classes, use the -library-path option on the ASDoc command line to include the folder that contains the airglobal.swc file.
Apollo Alpha 1 has launched! One of the coolest Apollo features is the new HTML rendering control and its Flex framework sibling, the HTML component. Here's a simple but functional web browser in just three lines of code...
We're midway through the Apollo Camp event here at the Adobe office in San Francisco. The level of customer interest is high. It's a very high-energy event, in spite of the late hour on a (mostly) work day.
It's great to see real-time blog posts popping
The ASDoc tool that comes with Flex Builder and the Flex 2 SDK generates great looking docs from your ActionScript and MXML code, but it can drive other types of documents, reports, and processes too. All you need are these undocumented command-line param
As Mike Chambers just announced on his blog, the new Apollo book that Mike, Jeff Swartz and I wrote is already up for preordering on Amazon.com. The tentative title is Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide but that could change by the time it's pu
Here is a technique for switching among views in a Flex 2 ViewStack or TabNavigator component without needing to know how the views are ordered. This hides the ViewStack implementation from other components or code, letting them switch views by view id al