Migrating Flex 3.x application to Flex 4.5 – Tip No. 2

As described in a previous post, I am currently doing some migration work for a client, migrating their Flex 3.5 application to Flex 4.5.

I needed to pass a set of variables to the main application using flashvars.
In Flex 3, it was pretty straight forward – you’d use the html-template file and modify it’s object tag to include those variables.

Using flash vars – part 2

In the previous post, we talked about ways to pass flash vars to our flex application.
In this post, we’ll discuss how to read, analyze and use them in our flex application.

Actually, it’s really quite simple.

Using flash vars – part 1

One of the things you often have to do, is get flash vars from a configuration file into your Flex application.
There are probably quite a few ways to do what I will describe below. This is just the way I chose to do it.

In this part, we’ll discuss how we can pass flash vars.