Posts Tagged: updateDisplayList()

• Jan 16, 2009

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  Creating a Custom Lifecycle for your Flex Components

  Currently, I am working on music rendering in Flex. This is not a trivial task to say the least, considering how screwed up music notation can actually be. Plus, to make things difficult, there are various dependencies with chords and other music notation such as accidentals, beams, ties, slurs, etc. and if you aren’t careful,...
  
  

• Jul 30, 2008

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  Custom Component Implementation

  createChildren() When is it called? The createChildren() method is automatically called by Flex whenever the custom component is added to a parent by the call addChild(customComponent). Keep in mind that unlike the other overridden methods in this article, there is no invalidate method associated with it. What is its purpose? To add other child components that the custom component...