AdvancED Flex 4

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Not bad. It even has the custom location in the address field. That way the customer will look at whatever

you are looking at.

Summary

In this chapter we covered how to create communication between Flex and JavaScript and vice versa.

One of the biggest advantages of using Flash and Flex is that you can be rest assured that the application

you created will run the same anywhere, because the code deployed is using the Flash Player, which is

consistent on devices and different browsers. JavaScript is not as consistent, and differs between

browsers so it’s important to test your application on different browsers. The ability to create

communication between Flex applications and JavaScript opens up some the doors for creating integration

and leveraging existing code. As an example of these integrations, we showed you a real-life application

using the communication between Flex and JavaScript creating a widget based on Yahoo! map. We also

showed you how to leverage Flex RSL to optimize your application size so your widget can be deployed

with the minimum size.