[flexcoders] Getting YouTube videos into Flex

Unless anyone knows an (authorized) way to get YouTube vids into Flex apps/AS3, could you please show your support for getting Google to write an AS3 wrapper to their AS2 API, by starring this feature request here: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=416 I imagine many of you

[flexcoders] Why the weird semantics for some of the higher-order functions?

I very much appreciate having functions as first-class values. However, I'm finding it increasingly annoying that Array.map and .filter don't follow the normal definitions. I keep writing a.map( function(l){return ...} ); only to get run-time errors because map requires a function with three

Re: [flexcoders] Can I use a variable to refer to an object's property name?

? Can I can instead do something like item.[myComboBox.selectedItem.data]? Do you know what I mean? Actually, I think item[myComboBox.selectedItem.data] should actually work just fine, Ed Peter Demling wrote: (This is a fundamental question, and it' challenging to find a clear way to

[flexcoders] Re: Flex cookbook article: Flex2 XML Reader Can Create UIComponents

I find runtime MXML something that would be invaluable. I'm not too sure about this. Wouldn't every swf have to link to every mx library (just in case it's used)? That would mean that every time you load from a URL you'd download the whole of MX, not just the components that are actually