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Month: March, 2007

SuperViewStack

For a Flex project I’m working on I decided I would need a ViewStack that also showed the children underneath the selectedChild. As some might know, the ViewStack class displays its children by setting the visibility of one to true, and that of the others to false.
This got me expecting that bringing my concept of [...]

The this keyword in inline functions

I just spent about half an hour trying to figure out why the inline function I used as a parameter for callLater wasn’t being executed properly (not even when I tried setTimeout instead).
After this short timespan of mental agony someone pointed out to me that I had to leave out the this keyword of my [...]

What’s with the uppercase-fetish?

This is actually something that has been striking me with perplexity for quite a while now, although it has nothing to do with Flash, Flex, or Actionscript.
So this is the issue, what is up with the “Hey, Let’s Make Every First Letter In A Word An Uppercase” attitude? Now of course I can see the [...]