Posts Tagged ‘custom components’

UIComponent and focus tabbing on children

Friday, July 4th, 2008

When coding composite components for a Flex application you usually extend a Container subclass and get focus tabbing for free on the children.

However when creating a reusable component, you sometimes want to avoid extending Container so that users are well aware…

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Using class properties on custom components to reduce the size of Flex applications

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

When you build a custom component inheriting from UIComponent and you want to provide the ability for the end user to configure your component using different modes, you have to provide a property that will let him choose which mode to…

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