Category Archives: Tips

Using Mixin metadata with Module gotcha

This post is not about using Mixin metadata tag. There are tons of documentation on the web to explain about usage. Here are a couple of useful links:
http://adamflater.blogspot.com/2007/03/static-code-blocks.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/1/mixin/
In fact, this post is about to warn you about some of the examples. In short, when you use Mixin, Flex will make sure that [...]

When not to use “hasOwnProperty” when checking for property

While working on FlexSDK bugs, I got one of my patches rejected because I was using “hasOwnProperty” to check for property existed instead of “in”. Alex Huri says “For sealed classes, the practice is to use ‘in’ instead of hasOwnProperty”. You learned something everyday. Thanks Alex.

How you can make your module projects portable when FlexBuilder doesn’t let you

This is post about sharing experience with developing Flex Modules (a lot of modules) and some suggestions on how you can improve development experience to work with multiple developers with different environments.
Here is the link to Adobe’s LiveDocs about how you can set up project structure for Module development: creating_modules_2.html. It has [...]