XML support in ActionScript is actually quite nice (though it’s a bit creepy to see raw XML inserted straight into the code). The whole E4X thing takes some getting used to, but in general everything just works surprisingly well. Except for deleting. That just doesn’t work at all like you’d expect. [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Deleting XML nodes: harder than it looks
Posted in 1 on March 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Need a Global/Static FocusManager? Try the Application!
Posted in 1 on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I am capturing global keypress events, and I want to suppress my action if some component has focus. A quick read of the docs and the FocusManager class looks like the ticket! More specifically, FocusManager::getFocus() looks like exactly the function I need. So I go ahead and call it, only to find it’s not [...]
“Bindable”, not “bindable”
Posted in 1 on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s right, it needs to be capitalized. How lame is that?
