Aaron is correct. The AS/MXML compiler ignores comments, and the @ in
@eventType has nothing to do with an XML attribute (although this is what it
would indicate if it were in AS code rather than in a comment). However, the
ASDoc generator pays attention to all comments that start with /**, and does
special processing on attributes like @eventType, @param, and @result inside
these comments. We adopted this convention from how JavaDoc works.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Aaron Hardy
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 7:31 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Question about flex source
See here under asdoc tags:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=asdoc_1.html
The @eventType tells the ASDoc generator that what it's seeing on that line is
something special and needs to be dealt with in a special way. It shouldn't
affect your application's code execution in any way. I'm not from Adobe though
so my response is nothing official...it's just what I've gathered from
experience.
Aaron
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:55 PM, ztpi1 zt...@yahoo.commailto:zt...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I notice that the flex source files have commented out sections like this one:
**
* Dispatched after the Application has been initialized,
* processed by the LayoutManager, and attached to the display list.
*
* @eventType mx.events.FlexEvent.APPLICATION_COMPLETE
*/
Is the @ symbol significant here? Does the compiler see the line with the @
symbol or is it merely for reader information?
It is my understanding that the @ symbol denotes an XML attribute, is that the
correct interpretation?
