Archive | August, 2008

Quick Poll: Whats your favorite Flex feature ?

Having worked with Flex long enough there are definitely times I get really annoyed when Flex does something I feel is counter intuitive or when I have to go around a pretty complicated process to do something that I feel would be trivial in Flash. But given a limited time frame for a project, I [...]

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AS3 weirdness with URLVariables for HTTP POST

Two+ hours wasted today on dealing with this. Apparently when using URLVariables to pass variables to the server using HTTP Post, using the square bracket syntax ( vars[varname] = varvalue ) sets the contentType of the URLRequest to text/html. However setting the same variables using the dot syntax (vars.varname = varvalue) sets it to text/xml. [...]

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