Adobe Flex Design Notes

• A sober look at whether to extend or reimplement limited features in Flex: http://jessewarden.com/2008/01/when-you-hit-a-design-brick-wall-in-flex.html
  • Example of TabNavigator and TabBar,
    • No depth (depth is basically hard coded to -1)
  • custom buttons, custom panel, titlewindow
  • monkey patched frameworks making changes to mx_internal and private

Flex help

• http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/10/26/customizing-the-accordion-header-in-flex-3/#more-253 - How to customize the header of the accordion navigator in Flex

Some warts for TabNavigator

• No scrolling of the tabs on TabBar
• Doesn't appear to handle having buttons with tiny close icons on them...
• Here is a library that seems to do something about the problem: http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList

Actionscript 3 without mxml - http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withmxmlc/

htmlcontrol - http://blog.everythingflex.com/2007/03/19/html-control/

flash player exploits - http://bardissi.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/legitimate-web-sites-serving-zero-day-flash-player-exploit/

casting - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=compilers_29.html

type checking - http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001824.html

Error 1180 - http://www.nutrixinteractive.com/blog/?p=56

setfocus issues:

• selection setfocus - http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=292188
• http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15319

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