Flex 2.0
How Do you Explore the Flex Framework Source?
My current project involves creating some custom components and I have found that exploring the Flex 2 Framework is a valuable guide. Right now I have copied the Flex 2 framework source into a new Flex Project so that I can explore the architecture with the benefit of control-click and other Flex help. I copied the framework into a new project because I realized that flex was going to put all kinds of “goodies” in my original framework source otherwise- something that I have a sneaking suspicion I would soon regret.
I figured I would post this question in my blog because I’m sure others setting out on the path have the same question and having it here would make it easy to find.
What other methods are Flex Component Developers finding to be useful to navigate through the component source code?
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We have a the flex framework in one of our eclipse lib projects as well. In addition to control-clicking, it’s nice to be able to hit ctrl-shift-R to do a quick search for a specific class in the framework. I find myself doing that most often to explore the framework.
What we do is have the Flex Framework posters on the walls of our office. Then all we do is walk over, identify a suitable class on the poster, then search for its specifics in the docs or the class libraries.
Links to the posters can be found here: http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/archives/17
I actually have them on my wall but sometimes I feel lazy or want to see all of the nooks and crannies of the insides or want to actually be able to walk through the details when I get an error. I’ve found that the external AS3 Project works well for that lately.