RIA Developer, Flex / Flash, Widgets
Getting Dirty with the Flex SDK – Slides and Recording
I’d like to thank everyone who attended my TechWed presentation yesterday. We had around 85 people in attendance! Thanks to Stacy Sison for convincing me that I should present.
I will be giving this presentation again tonight at the Seattle Flex User Group, so if you are in Seattle… show up. We’ll have a bit more time for questions at tonight’s presentation.
:: PRESENTATION MATERIALS ::
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Nate,
This was a great presentation. I too had trouble with the Flex WebServices and want to submit a patch. After watching your presentation, I was not able run the WootLabelTest successfully. I add the ‘text = “Woot!”‘ in the Label.as file but when I ran the application, I don’t see anything.
Any suggestion?
Thanks!
about 1 year ago
@Tonte
Hey, thanks for reading!
Okay, So if you’re not seeing your “woot” label, make sure that your WootLabelTest is using your version of framework.swc instead of the default Flex SDK version. To do this in
FlexFlash Builder:- Right-click on the project, let’s say WootLabelTest is your project, right click on that and go to properties.
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Also be sure that when setting up your Flex Library projects in Flash Builder that your “Linked Resource” is pointing to the correct place. If it’s not, the Flex Library project will be empty, and your swcs won’t do anything.
Hopefully that clears some stuff up. Let me know if that fixes things for you.
Cheers!
about 1 year ago
Okay I got it working. I was editing the wrong Label.as file.
Thanks!