Category Archives: Flex 3.0

Cairngorm internal event flow

This has been a big anxiety in my mind to know about the event flow mechanism than runs internally inside the cairngorm until I could look in to the source code of it. Here are my observations in short: Steps … Continue reading →

Posted in Architectures, Design Patterns, Flex 3.0, Flex 4

When not to use a framework

In recent days I have heard of many flex and flash developers trying to make use of micro-architectures like ARP, Swiz, Cairngorm, PureMVC for their projects. In the middle of the project they find lot of management task while maintaining … Continue reading →

Posted in AS3, Design Patterns, Flex 3.0

Flex Child Management

Flex containers are different from normal Flash DisplayObjectContainer. They hide some of their children when you try to access by a children counting method- container.numChildren. By default when no children is attached to the containers, they show numChildren value as … Continue reading →

Posted in Flex, Flex 3.0, Flex Hacks