I needed a simple spark button with only an icon – basically a bitmap made into a button. The problem is that I have lots of these buttons, each with a different icon – and all the skin samples use hard-coded assets. UPDATE: The new Flex 4.5 Hero has this feature built in, as described in [...]
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Go Beyond Flex, Part 1 – How to make your code smaller and faster
Flex is often taken for granted when implementing flash/AS3 projects. However it is not mandatory to use Flex on the flash platform. Not only that, its not always the preferred solution for most RIAs. In this post, I will cover a few alternatives to Flex while staying in the realm of Actionscript and Flash. Yes, [...]
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