Archive for August 28th, 2008

28
Aug

Creating a component instance by class name in ActionScript 3.0

The following example shows how you can create a new Flex component instance by using its class name by calling the getDefintionByName() method.

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28
Aug

Parsing XML nodes and Objects with dashes in their names in ActionScript 3.0

The following example shows how you can parse an XML node with a dash in its node name (<font-family />) as well as parsing an Object with a dash in it’s identifier using the square bracket notation ([]).

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28
Aug

Setting a background image on a VideoDisplay control in Flex

The following example shows how you can specify a background image for a Flex VideoDisplay control by setting the backgroundImage style.

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