Seeing as how Flex is most commonly used to add fancy widgets to web pages. Thus far all of the stuff I’d done made it a dead end. You can pass values to the Flex app when it starts, but after it gets running it did its own thing and ignored the rest […]

As I’m learning the Flex language I’m creating a client for the Hearts project. It gives me some sort of focus and a more or less realistic application to apply the language to. Currently I’m still working on the lobby.
The design I had in mind was to create a control that would represent […]

I guess this is the sequel to my post on custom events for Flex controls. Last time I discussed simple events that just had the event name. I quickly learned that these are really limiting, and will quickly become inadequate. In this installment I’m going to review how to establish custom events […]

We’ve now created some new Flex controls then loaded them into our application. Using the public methods we’re able to interact with the control. What we can do is get the control to send stuff to the main application. The standard controls mainly did this by sending events back to the parent, […]

In my previous examples to show how to create and load modules in Flex I kept the module simple, consisting only of an Action Script class. There were no visual components at all which makes it simple to use. Recently I had a need of a more complex module, basically new form control […]