Prior to Flash Player 10 , if you need to write or read a file to a user system , you would need to bounce it off a server and then load it back to the user system before you can even access the file. This is no longer true in Flash Player 10 . [...]

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If you haven’t heard about the next version of Flex , code name Gumbo is now in development. According to Adobe’s Open Source site , the next version of Flex has 3 primary themes :

Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity [...]

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Recently I was working on a Flex project and realize upon having my project on the live server , I couldn’t retrieve the height and width property of my loaded image by doing below

var img:Image = new Image();
img.source = "image.jpg"
trace(img.height);
trace(img.width);

The trace statement above will just show 0 for both width and height. Of course after [...]

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