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Flash Builder Development

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Help us decide where to go with Flex 4

Internally on the Flex team, we’ve been talking about how to partition the new Flex 4 features within the existing Flex 3 SDK.  Flex 4 introduces new Buttons, CheckBoxes, etc that must live happily with components from Flex 3.  And, Flex 4 also introduces new “language” features, like the new states syntax. As an example, [...]

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 [...]