Comments on: Flex 3 Tips, Tricks, and Gotchas (A Series)

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:21:50 +0000

Here, here on the lack of word wrap in radio buttons and check boxes. Omission of such a basic and required feature was downright criminal.

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localToGlobal » Blog Archive » news review -> 3rd week of 2009 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:06:42 +0000

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By: owen

owen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:13:19 +0000

Of course, I now see that this was written over a year ago. You probably figured those things out by now ;)

By: owen

owen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:11:07 +0000

This is a great list of Flex’s bugbears. I have to say I did my first major Flex project a few months back and ran into almost every single one of these problems.

You’ve talked a lot about the problems of [Embed]ded assets. I came across a lot of these too and found that using a swc to bring your assets across from Flash is far and away a better option. It has it’s own set of problems (I did a blog post about it a while back) but the benefits are worth it.

I also didn’t find preloaders that much of a chore. Looking back at the code I used it seems to be a class by Jesse Warden, which worked pretty much out of the box.

Hope that helps :)

By: Alex C

Alex C — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:20:55 +0000

Great stuff! Flex is a powerful tool that needs some serious polishing. There are so many of these “gotcha’s” that unless you’re serious about Flex, you could throw your hands up in frustration.

By: erixtekila

erixtekila — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:26:45 +0000

you can?t use scale 9 with assets embedded from symbols in SWFs.
That just work fine in flex 3 now. I don’t know for 2 btw?

By: Nick Matelli

Nick Matelli — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:56:39 +0000

Roger, with regards to the resource bundle, you may want to let the user know that the source path of your resource must be relative to the main application source path. It took me a while to realize that it was checking against /src in my AIR project.

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:28:19 +0000

@GregM, well there's my book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Flex :)

By: GregM

GregM — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:21:09 +0000

So the book “Flex 2/3 for the Real World” is due out when? :) Three months into Flex 2 and I have learned SO MUCH. I was one who missed the Java boat and wandered aimlessly for a couple years in CRM (very old VB language) then moved to the taboo side of Flash and table based web sites. Now aboard the Flex boat I have a very bright spot light guiding me in the path of a better future… Long live Flex, AS3, and the leaders who are helping the new crew catch up.
…ramblings of a drowned rat…

By: Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:14:00 +0000

Nice work… I have only dabbled with Flex so far, as a web developer it requires a different mind set with application flow since ( even with Web 2.0 ) you are stuck in the request / response world. Being able to bring large amounts of data client side and have this modified and sync up later requires rewiring heavy old cables inside my brain.

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Alex G — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:27:30 +0000

oh man… that Axe Vice Naughty to Nice is hilarious!

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By: Matt Chotin

Matt Chotin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:13:12 +0000

Hi Roger,

Great commentary. I’m hoping that you’ve filed lots of bug reports and enhancement requests at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex or made comments on the livedocs version of the documentation where appropriate. There’s definitely elements mentioned here that we already knew we needed to improve, but having details makes it all the easier to address.