In view of the fact that I’ve written about bubbles here and here, you might conclude that I find bubbles interesting. And it’s OK for you to conclude that; I won’t be offended.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about bubbles and tool tips: tool tips bubble down - sometimes. If you have a container with its toolTip [...]
As you’ll see in this new sample app, I’ve been having fun playing with Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3. The new app has some important features that my sample app for part one did not have:
The movie clip in the FLA extends a custom class (defined, of course, in a separate AS file).
The SWC [...]
In response to some good feedback to the previous post on event bubbling, I’ve expanded the Bubbles demo to show how an MXML component can dispatch a custom event, which in turn bubbles up and is handled by a grandparent container defined in ActionScript. I’ve also commented the code to help clarify the difference between [...]
As a child, I never thought much about why bubbles worked. I just stuck the wand in the bottle, lifted it back out, and blew. It was fun to watch the bubbles rise up in the air and float away. It was even more fun when there was a dog around, because then you could [...]
