ADOBE® FLEX® 3: PROGRAMMING ACTIONSCRIPT™ 3.0

ADOBE FLEX 3

Developer Guide

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Note: Even for those data types that let you create instances using a literal expression, you can still use the new operator

to create an object instance. For instance, these two lines of code do exactly the same thing:

var someNumber:Number = 6.33;

var someNumber:Number = new Number(6.33);

It’s important to be familiar with the new ClassName() way of creating objects. If you need to create an instance of

any ActionScript data type that doesn’t have a visual representation (and hence can’t be created by placing an item

on the Flash Stage or the Design mode of Flex Builder’s MXML editor), you can only do so by creati ...