Sometime ago someone asked me how I’d pass custom paramaters to event listeners. I don’t remember the exact use case neither who asked me but basically he was asking for something like:
mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, myListener, "myCustomParam", 2);
functoin myListener(event: MouseEvent, custom :String, custom2 : int) : void;
While the exact syntax above would not be possible, closures are in [...]
In case you missed it, a couple of days ago an article I wrote a while ago went live in Adobe Devnet
The article summarizes a set of best practices to configure your projects on Flash Builder and Eclipse in general for maximum efficiency and reduced maintenance effort.
As a software engineer joining a new project, I [...]
In this post I’ll explain how you can develop a flex library that automatically initializes itself avoiding developers the hassle of remembering how, when and where the libraries need to be initialized and hooked into the application. This can be particularly helpful for debugging libraries like fxSpy, DeMonsterDebugger, KaptInspect, mrdoob, etc. and extremely useful to [...]
Sometimes, due to many different reasons, there’re exceptions that happen during the invalidation/validation cycle of the flex SDK. Most times these exceptions end up being unveiled in the very core of the SDK, being not possible to catch them up because their async nature and the place where they happen.
The stacktrace of these exceptiosn, normally, [...]
One of the biggest problems around testing installed AIR applications is that testers can’t see when a runtime exception is triggered. Lots of times the symptom of a problem will be something completely different to the real cause and developers will have to spend much more time trying to figure out what was the root [...]
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