ProgrammaticSkin

This is a teaser for my upcoming talk at 360|Flex San Jose. I will be talking about how to improve your programming by reading the Flex source code. You should come to the conference (even if you aren't interested in my talk). There are lots of other great speakers.

Choosing a base class for your Flex component involves understanding the base classes that Flash provides. The primary classes in Flash that you should recognize are Sprite, Shape, and TextField. These classes are by far the most common in Flex code and you need to know what capabilities and limitations they have.