Using the class path resolution to your advantage
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 | actionscript, flex
Heres a interesting, albeit questionable hack when extending flex classes that cockblock you with a private property or require you to extend several classes when you just want to tweak 1 line of insignificant code in the component.
You can grab the class you want to tweak and copy it to your project folder, mirroring its package with the appropriate folders. When classes get resolved your project folder gets checked before default system paths so your edited version will get compiled in.
I don’t recommend doing this, probably ever, but its been my best friend when I just wanted to tweak that dark 1 pixel line that the Panel component’s title bar receives via TitleBackground without making it a long and convoluted proccess. I don’t know how well this will work with Flex 3’s framework caching but its nice to know this quick and dirty method is there.
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