One fails to appreciate how valuable the blogosphere is until one starts working in a new/gradually adopted technology. In this case, I’ve been working on a Flex project for a few weeks now and have painfully learned some of the ins-and-outs of development despite the sparse blog content on the subject. Since online resources have been rather sparse to begin with, I figured I’d start adding to them.

To me, Flex is like doing Flash in a Dreamweaver atmosphere–you have your MXML (HTML), ActionScript (JavaScript), and CSS (or at least a subset of it). While I can definitely see the production value in Flex, I’m not sure I like it over plain ActionScript. I’ve been building a number of MXML components, and it drives me batty knowing I can’t implement an interface, use inheritance, and am forced to use getters and setters in my tags in order to set variables as MXML attributes. Should I place my styles in a separate CSS file, or include them in my component to encapsulate it? Hmmm…
Anyway, onto what I was posting for, here’s a helpful Flex style explorer that writes the CSS for you. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include all of the built-in Flex components, but it’s a great start.

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