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Listen to me rant about ActionScript, part 3

So after a three week vacation, I think I’m finally ready to dive into a few other fun pieces of ActionScript.  And really, what better place to start than local variable hoisting. In Java and C++, local variables are scoped per block, starting at the beginning of a function.  Each set of curly braces corresponds [...]

Flex Builder Protip: Import missing imports

Let’s say you’ve just pasted in a snippet of code, or loaded a file that is missing imports.  When you compile, you get errors and you’re stuck importing each definition by hand.  Flex Builder provides a bit of a hidden feature here to help you import your missing types:  next to each type that is [...]