> I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults > into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. We could make this work (although we won't have time before Flex 3 ships). Please file an enhancement request at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex if you feel it is important for a future release. But I'm always interested in why some people avoid MXML. What's your reason? - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible? I was already aware of that, but forgoing the use of UIComponents is not really an option for me. I don't see why the Flex team couldn't build a minimal set of defaults into the Application class that would allow it to be used outside of MXML. But absent that, I think the API docs should clearly indicate that the only practical way to instantiate and use the class is through MXML. Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not all applications have to have mx:Application at the top level. You can start with Sprite if you want. That's what happens when you create an ActionScript project in Flex Builder. But then you can't u! se most of the mx: components. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Glasser Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 2:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Application without MXML: Is it possible? I looked at the generated actionscript and it does look like there's a lot going on, and it's not worth trying to make it work without MXML. Maybe I'll log a bug report requesting that they say in the API doc that the Application class can only (as a practical ! matter) be used via the <mx:Application> MXML tag. hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is what I'm trying to do impossible, at least without adding some amount of setup code that is normally generated by the MXML preprocessor and isn't documented anywhere? __ As I understand it, this is exactly correct. If you compile an MXML with the option on that generates actionscript (I forget how you do this) you will see a lot of generated code even in an MXML hello world. Regards, Han
