I’ve recently been tasked with figuring this out so I thought I’d share my results with everyone.
The Problem:
Create a Flash/Flex horizontal menu that will overlap the content below it. We don’t know how big the menu might get or what kind of content might end up below it. We do know [...]

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Modifying your default build template is quite simple. There is a template file that is used when building your project. It should reside in the html-template directory at the root of your project in Flex Builder. In Flex Builder 3, the template is named “index.template.html”.
Let’s say you want to modify default parameters [...]

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Flex is great! Javascript can be great! What if two great things got together?
This is a simple code hint which shows how to call javascript functions from Flex and pass data back and forth:
MXML Button:
<mx:Button
id = “button”
label = “Click Me!”
click = “handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent)
/>
Flex Function:
private function handleButtonClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var functionName:String = “handleButtonClick”;
var returnData:String = ExternalInterface.call(f, [...]

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