Reminder: Flex UG meeting tonight

[jdsc...@gmail.com]

This month Jonathon Knapp of Expand Media and coffeeandcode.com will
be doing a presentation on one of the Flex applications he wrote for
Expand. It is a wrapper for many different videos for training
employees on how to use a specific electronic device. The Flex
application is in charge of loading the basic content for the site,
setting up the navigation, and handling events that occur when a video
ends or a new video is requested. There are also a couple Flash
simulations that involve drag and drop that are loaded into the Flex
app as part of the training. The application was built using the Mate
framework to handle many of the events that take place within the
system.

This month we will again meet at the Cuyahoga County Library, Snow
Rd., Parma at 6:30pm.

JD

www.clevelandflex.com

[Jon Knapp]

First of all, thank you very much to everyone that attended last
night. I hope you enjoyed my ramblings, and I was very glad to see
that it sparked some conversations in quite a few Flex-ish related
topics.

Now it's time for me to find out if my bold statements hold any
credit, so it's off to Google to find some answers.

It turns out that the "Flex 4 components use base classes and
exclusively target Flash Player 10" statement I made looks to be
true. You can read more about it here: http://www.insideria.com/2009/06/overview-of-flex-4-gumbo.html
and the part I quoted was in the section "Halo components vs. Spark
components". I really thought I was blowing smoke at the meeting, so
I'm glad this one turned out in my favor.

Next is to find out why we really need to override toString() and clone
() for custom events...
I'll look into it a bit and get back to you. Thanks for stopping by
last night, and the encouraging words after the presentation. Have a
great day!

- Jonathan Knapp

[Jon Knapp]

"You are required to override the Event.clone()"
That pretty much speaks loudly enough. Found it here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=createevents_3.html
and here http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/events/Event.html#clone%28%29

I don't exactly know why yet, but "required" is a pretty descriptive
word. I still think it has something to do with redispatching a
caught event without creating a new event manually.

As for overriding toString(), I believe it is more of convenience so
that you can see relevant information when you trace out an event.

Enjoy!

- Jonathan Knapp