Comments on: A couple of samples from MAX (no, not that one)

By: Sean Wesenberg

Sean Wesenberg — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:38:15 +0000

Question:

In your ASBinder.bindHandler method, you have the following line of code inside the impromptu handler function.

watcher.unwatch();

Any reason for this? If I comment the above line out, I can attached similar HandleEvent bindings to multiple methods (one click event triggers 3 methods). Nothing seems to have broken in my code yet. Was wondering if the unwatch() does anything special.

By: rafael

rafael — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:27:13 +0000

Hey, great work but i have a big question here, may I add some tags to the picture and this appears when is the current one??? like coverflow…

By: BrianLai

BrianLai — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:28:38 +0000

Looks like this works in a similar way to Java annotations, with the concept of class reflection. So I guess you don’t have privileges to access the definition any private or protected (or internal) members or methods. Not sure if we can access xxx_internal, but maybe we can try to put “use namespace xxx_internal” in the metadata implementing class and hope that it will work?
Another thought is to use a bunch of getDefinitionByName(â€œcom.myPackage.myClassâ€) in some manager class to initiate all the class that uses the metadata so you don’t need to call ASBinder.InitObject(this); in each of the class constructors.

By: Jove

Jove — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:03:46 +0000

For the Customer Tags, I find we can only get the public methods by flash.utils.describeType(), but how to get the methods which is defined under protected or other namespace like XXX_internal?

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:04:47 +0000

I was the guy asking you to post the samples at MAX… just wanted to say thanks a lot for taking the time, truly appreciated!

By: JabbyPanda

JabbyPanda — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:02:54 +0000

3rd tab sample does not work for me either..

And "metaprogramming with custom actionscript metadata" sample is created in Flex 3 SDK, not Flex 2.0.1 SDK, is not it?

By: Shigeru

Shigeru — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:28:52 +0000

I think the 3rd tab (HandleEvent) of sample 3 doesn’t work.

By: milan

milan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:36:22 +0000

Finally…I wondered where are you :) Sho leaved, you don’t blog…and I thought something is happening…Then I saw your presentation in Barcelona and everything was clear. Keep on your good work, thanks for this examples!

By: Tony Fendall

Tony Fendall — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:43:50 +0000

You’re missing the link to the demos