Yea, I get it. It sounds really cool though -- I'd love to be able to
see dynamically created
MXML and not have it to be server side (Apache IIS mod). This would make
flex's value
a lot higher. I suppose that there is some class in the flex framework
which does this however,
converts MXML to objects and then it's ready.
Has anyone ever used this or is it internal?
Best, Austin
Daniel Freiman wrote:
I think they're just stating that the mx.modules package exists. The
sentence "We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because
the compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects" doesn't
inspire confidence that they know what they're talking about. Since
it's possible that they don't know what a compiler does, it's also
possible they're just writing and compiling Modules and don't
understand that they're doing it. Then again, that wouldn't explain
what they're fighting with another company about earlier in the article.
They claim what they're talking about is in the docs so I'd either
search them or not worry about it. My guess is you'd be searching a
long time for something that isn't there. It would be nice if someone
could prove my guess wrong though.
Dan Freiman
nondocs <http://nondocs.blogspot.com>
On 5/17/07, *Austin Kottke* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
There is an intriguing article in the flex cookbook on the adobe
site about
reading in MXML at runtime and using the XML object to create
components
at runtime. While
I don't totally get how this works as there are no code samples, but
very vague actually, but it states:
"Let's consider, for a moment, how Adobe might have chosen to
leverage
reuse within the Flex2 programming model.
"Assuming the Adobe engineers did not want to have to recreate the
wheel
in terms of how to make Flex2 able to load normal non-GUI XML I would
surmise they chose to simply reuse whatever code they wrote that was
able to read MXML into a way to read XML.
"As we know, MXML resembles XML rather closely. Heck, MXML is XML !
Yipee, now I can easily read MXML because it is essentially a form
of XML.
"We also know Flex2 knows how to read MXML at runtime because the
compiler knows how to convert MXML into GUI Objects.
"But what if we could trick Flex2 into dynamically loading MXML at
runtime ?"
So my question, has anyone ever done this and how did they do it? I'm
not talking about using the
modules package to load in precompiled swfs. But loading in mxml and
having it run after being loaded.
Best, Austin
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