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Slides and Code from my Flex 3/4 Component Lifecycle User Group Talks

Folks, Here’s the code and slides from my talks from last week’s SILVAFUG and BAADAUG user group meetings on the Flex 3 and Flex 4 Component Lifecycle.

Please note, I gave a flavor of this talk at MAX 2008 (referenced here). However, the slides and code from that MAX talk are severely out of date with the current state of the SDK trunk (obviously, since it was over a year ago!). The slides and code for last week’s talks, which are linked below, have been updated to be relevant with the current state of the SDK trunk. So, do not use the code from the MAX 2008 talk as its sorely out of date and you will get plenty of compiler errors and confuse yourself!

PPT Slides (Flex 3 and Flex 4 Component Lifecycle)

Halo VideoWidget

Spark VideoWidget (built on SDK trunk revision 10461)

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Learn About the Flex Component Cycle for Halo and Spark Components

Folks! Man, its been awhile since I’ve posted. My bad, my bad. At least I have something fun to share!

I’ll be speaking at 2 user group meetings next week (Tuesday in San Francisco, Wednesday in San Jose) all about Flex component lifecycle. I’ll cover (briefly) the Flex 3 (Halo) component lifecycle and then dive into the Flex 4 (Spark) component lifecycle. We’ll talk about what exactly happens at startup to a Spark component – how its skin gets initialized and associated with the component, how its states are determined, etc. It will be great! In addition to slides and explanations, we’ll walk through building a sample component and introspecting the methods as we discuss them. As usual, I’ll put all the slides and code on my blog after the talk.

Not to plug my last year’s MAX talk, but next week’s presentations will all hinge on having some knowledge of the Flex 3 component lifecycle. So, if you haven’t watched that video, it might behoove you to do so 🙂

You can see the video, grab the slides and code all from my blog post here.

Details on the time and location of each talk is on the SILVAFUG and BAADAUG sites.

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