Gumbo Namespace Changes – Revisited
I posted last week about how the namespaces had been altered in Flex 4 using the gumbo components. The problem with posting detailed information about a product that is so early in its life-cycle is that large changes can be made in the wink of an eye. An example of this is that while the earlier version of the sdk separated the language namespace and component namespace, those items have now...
Read MoreUsing Layouts in Flex 4 Gumbo
If you have started working with Flex 4 you may have gotten frustrated by the problems with layouts. At first glance I thought there was something wrong, I placed it as a work in progress bug and moved on. But then I started looking at the actual error I was presented with when I used layout=”Vertical” “Initializer for ‘layout’: values of type...
Read MoreUnderstanding the namespace changes in Flex 4 (Gumbo)
[UPDATE: Much of what I discuss here is still relevant but in a recent update to the sdk the namespaces have all been combined. Please follow up this post with the update. Please don't try to run the code from this post. View the updated code here.] In a previous post I showed you how to get Flex Builder set up for building applications using Flex 4 (Gumbo). With your development environment...
Read MoreGetting Started with Flex 4 (Gumbo)
In order to start playing with the code in gumbo, you need to get the source for the framework from the Adobe Open Source Website. From there you can add it as an available Flex SDK in Flex Builder and start to play with the code. Mike Chambers has a good blog post on how to set this up, but I have also prepared a screencast to show you how to set this up. Full Size Video Here The final code...
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