Adobe Flash Builder - Custom event dispatching

Custom events are a great way to send data around an application and have components and controls respond to situations. In this simple tutorial we have two custom components that will communicate with each other via custom events. We have a button that creates and dispatches an event that the application then responds to and then tells another component to perform an action. Understanding of custom events will go along way to making applications perform better and easier to manage code changes as the application grows.

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Adobe AIR Launchpad BETA 1 - Walkthrough

Adobe has released BETA 1 of a new tool aimed at AIR developers. The application allows you to answer some simple questions and generates the application framework for you. A couple of examples are stubbing out the code for auto-update, network connection checking and centering an application on the desktop automatically. It saves editing the XML file to configure the AIR applications, which can be very annoying to do at times. I'll walk you through BETA 1 and show how to import that project into Adobe Flash Builder 4 where you can start work on the content of the application.

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