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A RobotLegs Book

posted in ActionScript on 2011-07-22   book robotlegs joel hooks finished information read

@Stray and @Joel Hooks finished their book for RobotLegs. Definitely it is something that you should read. More information here.

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AS3: Using custom Metadata in Flex (part 1)

posted in ActionScript on 2010-12-28   metadata public flex mycustomclass information metadata tags tag as3 flash utils describetype public function mycustomclass

I'm sure that you've already used metadata tags in your flex applications. There are several reserved keywords like [Bindable], [Embed], [Event] and so on (the full list is available here). The function of the metadata tags is to provide additional information to the flex compiler. For example information about embeding assets, dispatching events. This article doesn't explain how to use the default flex tags (you can learn that from here). It shows you how to create your own metadata tags and how to use them.

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Trace JSON object in AS3

posted in ActionScript on 2010-07-17   str description gettypeof o spaces var object information users

I'm absolutely sure that all of you are working with JSON objects. It's pretty helpful to be able to print them and find out what exactly they contain. I wrote a simple function that makes this possible.

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