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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 0, but they do contain chidren, which are known as”chrome” elements or “non-content” children. Let’s [...]

Design.xml

If you are not sure about the use of design.xml inside the flex component packaging, please go though my previous article(Custom components), where I faced some problem regarding categorizing my own set of components.
Design.xml plays a vital role in creating a new new tree child inside the flex components panel. Here is a simple [...]

Custom Components

This was a bit hard stuff for me to categorize my ow components in my flex component folder. I googled a lot about this..but didn’t get some clue of it. I started searching arround the xml files inside the flex installation directory, Well , that was of no help. I was still searching, and some [...]