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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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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The following example shows how you can set the amount of indentation used when calling the toXMLString() method by setting the static XML.prettyIndent property in ActionScript.
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The following example shows how you can ignore comment tags (<!-- … -->) in an XML document by setting the static XML.ignoreComments property.
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The following example shows how you can get the XML class’s current settings by calling the static XML.settings() method.
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The following example shows how you can check whether a Flex Button control is listening for a specific event (FlexEvent.BUTTON_DOWN) by using the hasEventListener() and willTrigger() methods.
According to the Flex 3 documentation for the EventDispatcher class’s hasEventListener() method (link):
The difference between
hasEventListener()andwillTrigger()is thathasEventListener()examines only the object to which it belongs, whereaswillTrigger()examines the entire event flow for the event specified by the type parameter.
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The following example shows how you can loop over an Array in ActionScript 3.0 using the Array class’s every() method.
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The following example shows how you can loop over an Array object and modify items using the Array class’s forEach() method.
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The following example shows how you can skew a Flex Image control vertically and horizontally using the Transform and Matrix classes.
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In a previous example, “Calling JavaScript functions from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API”, we saw how we could call JavaScript functions from our Flex application.
The following example shows us how we can return a value from a JavaScript function call and use the data in our Flex application.
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In a previous example, “Calling JavaScript functions from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface API”, we saw how you could call JavaScript methods from our Flex applications using the static ExternalInterface.call() method.
The following example shows you how you can call ActionScript methods in our Flex applications from JavaScript using the static ExternalInterface.addCallback() method and a bit of JavaScript.
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The following example shows how you can check to see whether your Flex application is in a container that supports the ExternalInterface API.
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The following example shows how you can call a JavaScript function from your Flex applications using the ExternalInterface class and the static ExternalInterface.call() method.
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