Flex and Flash Developer – Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm

First off, wanted to report the sad news my blower’s dead; wrong mixture of gas & oil, piston’s busted or something.
Anyway, deploying a project yesterday and doing the unthinkable, loadMovie. A parent SWF loads a child SWF after a successful login. These child SWF’s are basically applications and the shell that loads them [...]

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The Atlanta Java Users’ Group meeting tonight was about AJAX. Takeaways:

Back button becomes Cancel
Submit button becomes Save
Tons of open source frameworks to bridge to the backend
Code does not need to exist on the client beyond connection scripts; JavaScript can be sent to browser to be executed; basically remote invoking via passing of code (aka [...]

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I’m convinced I’ll have a job in technology till the day I die. At the rate things are going, maybe it won’t be coding, but I’ll bet my last dollar it’s in maintenance.
I spent, oh, 20 minutes at lunch trying to fix my blower; it’s a 2 stroke engine with a fan that generates [...]

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Both Flash & Flex have a Loader component to load content into. It’s nice in Flash because it abstracts sizing & loading code. It’s even cooler in Flex because you can bind to contentPath.
However, if the content you are loading in Flash is an internal symbol, or embedded content in Flex (same thing), [...]

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Typically, if you want external content in Flash, you link to an external text file, and load it into a text field like so:
lv = new LoadVars();
lv.owner = this;
lv.onData = function(str)
{
this.owner.my_txt.text = str;
};
lv.load(”yourTextFile.txt”);
Quick and dirty, right? Well, Flex does the same thing for you, but without all the work; check this out:
<mx:String [...]

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