ADOBE® FLEX® 3: CREATING AND EXTENDING ADOBE FLEX 3 COMPONENTS

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Creating and Extending Adobe Flex 3 Components

Instance class The instance class implements the effect logic. When an effect trigger occurs, or when you call the

play() method to invoke an effect, the factory class creates an object of the instance class to perform the effect

on the target. When the effect ends, Flex destroys the instance object. If the effect has multiple target components,

the factory class creates multiple instance objects, one per target.

By convention, the name of an instance class is the name of the effect with the suffix Instance, such as ZoomIn-

stance or FadeInstance.

About the effect base classes

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