Recently on this list, somebody said that the Flex framework team has been surprised at the resistance many developers have to subclassing and they'd like to understand it better. I'd like to put my 2 cents into this discussion because maybe we can come up with some good answers.
I think the ability to extend the existing framework is fabulous, but I find that I am hesitant to subclass or extend the existing classes. Recently, I spent several days trying to override the placeSortArrow function on the datagrid. I ended up ditching my code because there were so many private variables used by the existing placeSortArrow() function that I would need to rewrite most of the datagrid.as file. I've bought books and searched online for answers, but I haven't found anything satisfactory yet. Maybe if there were more resources (even if we had to pay for them), we would find more developers extending the flex framework. Dana
