Archive for February, 2010

How not to use “services_config.xml”

The most common way to use RemoteServices in flex is by creating a separate file to keep the configuration, and adding the “-services” switch to the compiler arguments. It’s a good way to do it, but not always, and is especially painful when explaining remoting to someone. But you can skip the whole file and [...]

Things you might not know about calling actionscript functions

OK, my guess would be that everybody used a function at one point or another. But there are some things which are less than obvious about an actionscript function. Let’s take a quick look. Calling functions Let’s create a simple function which will accept any number of parameters. function sum(…arg):int {       var [...]

Spark Group, SkinPart and Error 1020

I’ve added some SkinParts and it started throwing a strange error message on the definitions: 1020: Method marked override must override another method.

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