If you have ever tried to add mx.core.ToolTip (or certain other classes) as a mxml-tag to your Flex project then you might’ve run into the following compiler-error: “Could not resolve <mx:ToolTip> to a component implementation.” So why does Flex (or rather MXMLC, the compiler) let you write <mx:Button> and <mx:Canvas> and all those other Flex [...]
This post provides some example-code for the concept presented in my previous post, please note that this post serves only to add some concrete material to the abstract idea presented in the previous post and that the focus should be on the latter rather than the former. This post is not at all about best [...]
When namespaces were first introduced in Actionscript 3 I thought it was all pretty cool, but still I sort of had a difficult time thinking of actual use-cases. What I initially would have liked to use custom namespaces for was to restrict access to certain properties/methods, to only be accessible for certain classes, in the [...]