Comments on: Why Extending Flex Sucks http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/ Web Applications and Open Source Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-286 admin Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:26:12 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-286 Hi Bitpusher, you can't do what you want, but lo and behold, the horizontal list: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/HorizontalList.html You can't extend, but sometimes they do the work for you :-) bye Ariel Hi Bitpusher,
you can’t do what you want, but lo and behold, the horizontal list:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/HorizontalList.html
You can’t extend, but sometimes they do the work for you :-)
bye
Ariel

]]> By: bitpusher http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-285 bitpusher Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:34:03 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-285 Hey Ariel, Couldn't agree more. Just spent a week trying to create custom list and rendrer from ListBase an ItemRenderer. It seems Adobe never imagined that a list could be horizontal. I give up. Hey Ariel,
Couldn’t agree more.
Just spent a week trying to create custom list and rendrer from ListBase an ItemRenderer.
It seems Adobe never imagined that a list could be horizontal.
I give up.

]]> By: admin http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-78 admin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:07:35 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-78 Hi Tink, thanks for the explanation! I'll try to keep my hands off mx_internal then :-) As for includes, I can see your point, but it's pretty bad for code portability, I find. Wrapping your code in a class and finding it a space in your codebase is probably worth your trouble in the long run. Ariel Hi Tink,
thanks for the explanation! I’ll try to keep my hands off mx_internal then :-)
As for includes, I can see your point, but it’s pretty bad for code portability, I find. Wrapping your code in a class and finding it a space in your codebase is probably worth your trouble in the long run.
Ariel

]]> By: Tink http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Tink Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:51:02 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-77 mx_internal denotes that Adobe may not support backwards compatibility with those methods. i.e. if you override public or protected methods, you can rest assured that framework updates won't break your code. If you extend Adobes classes includes shouldn't affect you. If you copying their code in custom classes you can omit things like. include “../core/Version.as”; These ActionScript files (they are not classes) enable you to isolate and re-use code, and cutdown on the code in the class. For instance you can isolated all the border styles out into one file, and then just include that in any component that you have built to support those styles. Basically an include is the same as doing a Script tag and setting its source property to an ActionScript file. mx_internal denotes that Adobe may not support backwards compatibility with those methods.

i.e. if you override public or protected methods, you can rest assured that framework updates won’t break your code.

If you extend Adobes classes includes shouldn’t affect you. If you copying their code in custom classes you can omit things like.

include “../core/Version.as”;

These ActionScript files (they are not classes) enable you to isolate and re-use code, and cutdown on the code in the class. For instance you can isolated all the border styles out into one file, and then just include that in any component that you have built to support those styles.

Basically an include is the same as doing a Script tag and setting its source property to an ActionScript file.

]]> By: Rounding Up April Fool’s Week http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Rounding Up April Fool’s Week Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:01:20 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-74 [...] While some may wonder why Adobe Flex has next to no community-inputs coming in despite being open source, Ariel tells us why he thinks extending Flex sucks. [...] [...] While some may wonder why Adobe Flex has next to no community-inputs coming in despite being open source, Ariel tells us why he thinks extending Flex sucks. [...]

]]> By: Anselm Bradford http://arielsommeria.com/blog/2009/04/03/why-extending-flex-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Anselm Bradford Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:49:57 +0000 http://arielsommeria.com/blog/?p=99#comment-72 Yeah, overriding the Flex classes is painful :( Yeah, overriding the Flex classes is painful :(

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