Comments on: Introduction to Flex Resource Bundles http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/ Collective thoughts of the New York Flash community Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Roger Braunstein http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-130642 Roger Braunstein Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:04:51 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-130642 <a href="#comment-130612" rel="nofollow">@James</a>, Resource bundles work with Flex and use its built-in managers. You would be hard-pressed to excise this part of the framework and selectively make this work in an AS3-only project, though I'm sure it's technically possible. I know what you are after, though - I want the same flexibility. These days in my AS3-only projects, I will always have a copy deck XML file and CopyDeck singleton class. I use the following techniques to make this copy stupid-easy to include in my projects: <a href="http://dispatchevent.org/roger/instant-model-binding-with-reflection/" rel="nofollow">Automatic Model Binding</a> and occasionally, when I don't want to load the copy deck at runtime, <a href="http://dispatchevent.org/roger/embed-almost-anything-in-your-swf/" rel="nofollow">Arbitrary Data Embedding</a> This makes things pretty easy. @James,

Resource bundles work with Flex and use its built-in managers. You would be hard-pressed to excise this part of the framework and selectively make this work in an AS3-only project, though I’m sure it’s technically possible.

I know what you are after, though - I want the same flexibility. These days in my AS3-only projects, I will always have a copy deck XML file and CopyDeck singleton class. I use the following techniques to make this copy stupid-easy to include in my projects:

Automatic Model Binding
and occasionally, when I don’t want to load the copy deck at runtime,
Arbitrary Data Embedding

This makes things pretty easy.

]]> By: James Rowley http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-130612 James Rowley Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:56:45 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-130612 Hi - i need to use resource bundles with Flash, not Flex. Would this work well in AS3 too - or does it require the power of Flex ? If it does - do u have any examples in AS3 only? Hi - i need to use resource bundles with Flash, not Flex. Would this work well in AS3 too - or does it require the power of Flex ? If it does - do u have any examples in AS3 only?

]]> By: David http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-120856 David Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:59:31 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-120856 Hi Roger, great article! What about the comment of Eric... I was wondering the same thing. Resource bundles are a great, easy and fast way to modify your app without crawling through your code. But you still have to recompile it.. Two years ago, probably was with Flex 1.5, i had to develop an easy app that should have 3 different versions, depending on language and another variable, some text, colors and images should change. I opted for an xml configuration file that was loaded after reading a FlashVars in html.. So if the client wants to have a text or image change, i, or even himself, can just easily update the xml on the server and that's it. What are the backdraws of this solution and what do you suggest since Flex has changed a lot during the past two years... bye Hi Roger, great article!

What about the comment of Eric… I was wondering the same thing.
Resource bundles are a great, easy and fast way to modify your app without crawling through your code. But you still have to recompile it..

Two years ago, probably was with Flex 1.5, i had to develop an easy app that should have 3 different versions, depending on language and another variable, some text, colors and images should change.
I opted for an xml configuration file that was loaded after reading a FlashVars in html.. So if the client wants to have a text or image change, i, or even himself, can just easily update the xml on the server and that’s it.

What are the backdraws of this solution and what do you suggest since Flex has changed a lot during the past two years…
bye

]]> By: Eric http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-120645 Eric Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:08 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-120645 Hi Roger, Great article, i was wondering however if its possible to load the properties file from an external source during runtime. I need to be able to change the properties file without recompiling the entire code and redeploying. Thanks in advance /Eric Hi Roger,

Great article, i was wondering however if its possible to load the properties file from an external source during runtime. I need to be able to change the properties file without recompiling the entire code and redeploying. Thanks in advance

/Eric

]]> By: Roms http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-119608 Roms Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:54:44 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-119608 Thanks for this, it's really interesting and you make it easy to understand :) Thanks for this, it’s really interesting and you make it easy to understand :)

]]> By: 36 New, Cool Flex and AS3 Tools, Libraries and Components http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-117724 36 New, Cool Flex and AS3 Tools, Libraries and Components Sat, 24 May 2008 19:17:09 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-117724 [...] Flex Resource Bundles What’s a resource bundle? It’s a set of values that you externalize from your source code in a properties file. And it can be swapped out at compile time or, with Flex 3, at runtime. Think of it like a style sheet for values. http://blog.extends.eventdispatcher.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/ [...] [...] Flex Resource Bundles What’s a resource bundle? It’s a set of values that you externalize from your source code in a properties file. And it can be swapped out at compile time or, with Flex 3, at runtime. Think of it like a style sheet for values. http://blog.extends.eventdispatcher.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/ [...]

]]> By: tripleaxis http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-116735 tripleaxis Wed, 14 May 2008 14:17:23 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-116735 Great that someone's put up an article about bundles. When I first saw it in the feature list, I mentally ticked it for a review at a later date, but kinda never did. *rolls up sleeves and thumbs jet-pack catalogue* Great that someone’s put up an article about bundles.
When I first saw it in the feature list, I mentally ticked it for a review at a later date, but kinda never did.

*rolls up sleeves and thumbs jet-pack catalogue*

]]> By: shaun http://dispatchevent.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/#comment-115163 shaun Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:38 +0000 http://www.partlyhuman.com/blog/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles#comment-115163 Nice article. Thanks. Nice article. Thanks.

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