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The next tip refers to fonts embedded either with CSS or style tag.

 

The format we know and used in Flex 3.x was:

 

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The next few posts will be dedicated to common errors that arise from moving to Flex 4.5 SDK and Spark Theme.

 

First, let me explain why those errors arise. When changing the compiler SDK to Flex 4.5 some errors arise and are easily fixed.
When you change the theme to Spark Theme, some styles are no longer supported for mx components.

 

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As described in a previous post, I am currently doing some migration work for a client, migrating their Flex 3.5 application to Flex 4.5.

 

I needed to pass a set of variables to the main application using flashvars.

 

In Flex 3, it was pretty straight forward – you’d use the html-template file and modify it’s object tag to include those variables.

This has changed somewhat with Flex 4.5.

 

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I am currently doing some migration work for a client, migrating their Flex 3.5 application to Flex 4.5.

 

Occasionally, I will undoubtedly encounter bumpers…
This will be an account of those bumpers, and how I came to resolve them. This is not guaranteed to be the best solution, just the one that worked for me, usual caveats apply.

 

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In previous posts in the series we discussed new features in Flex 4 that are basic in nature (namespaces, an introduction to the new Spark components architecture and the new mxml tags to name a few).

In the next few posts we will discuss the more interesting stuff new with Flex 4 like FXG, states, layouts, effects and skinning.
So, without further ado, View States!

 

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In previous posts in the series we discussed namespaces, an introduction to the new Spark components architecture and the new mxml tags introduced with Flex 4.
This post is all about data binding, and two-way data binding new to Flex 4 specifically.