http://coding.bhirschmann.de Flex, Java ...and all the rest - by Bernhard Hirschmann Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:21:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you too asked yourself "how can I clone an object in AS?" - fortunately it is as simple as in other programming languages. Again, the challenge is to find the right utility class for it. Just use ObjectUtil.copy: var clone:Object = ObjectUtil.copy(originalObject) as Object; Thats about it. But remember Adobes documentation about this ... http://coding.bhirschmann.de/2008/04/15/cloning-an-object-in-actionscript/ With bigger Flex applications you might consider separating parts of your application to modules (<mx:Module>). When I came to this point, I encountered into troubles handling the Eclipse projects with the separate module code. Here is the result of my analysis, which finally worked out, after trapping in to several ... http://coding.bhirschmann.de/2008/04/07/flex-modules-in-eclipse-projects/ The first thing you see when you load a Flash application in a browser is the progress bar of the preloader. This Flash preloader is a neutral piece of visual indicator, maybe too neutral. For a stylish application, you may want to use a preloader in the application's look and ... http://coding.bhirschmann.de/2008/03/20/preloader-for-flex-with-rsl-support/ Using request parameters inside Flex/Flash is a common way to initialize the application during runtime startup. Adobe calls this FlashVars. Accessing those variables inside the code is often a bit confusing. I'd like to provide two examples for different environments, to show how to access the values. A FlashVar can be ... http://coding.bhirschmann.de/2008/03/17/accessing-flashvars-in-actionscript/