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How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag
Andrei Ionescu | 30.05.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Using events is fun in MXML components is fun and easily you can specify events using Event meta tag inside the component like this:
<mx:Metadata>
[Event(name="myevent", type="com.MyEvent")]
</mx:Metadata>
The following lines defines the myevent attribute of the component like this:

<com:FramedImage x="10" y="10" myevent="handleMyEvent(event)" … />

FramedImage component is a custom component which displays a framed image.
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ActionScript, Flex 2
mixin
Virgil Cristea | 05.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I wanted to talk a while ago about the [Mixin] meta-data tag but I forgot .
Most programmers have heard of the static code concept but if they try to implement it in AS3/Flex they have problems. Here is how to do it:

package
{
import mx.managers.ISystemManager;

[Mixin]
public class StaticCode
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rodiq: I looked a lot for a multiselect component, it is just great! In my case, I just modified it to work with...
Nami: Thank you !!
Gert-Jan van der Wel: It seems to work when you pass in the whole path of the class. var myClass:Class =...
Andrei Ionescu: Cornelius, thanks for your fix.
Cornelius: In the end, you forgot the case of a right-aligned image: if (getStyle("horizontalAlign") == "right")...