About a month ago I was introduced to the Swiz application framework for Flex. Within an hour or so, I was not only sold on the simplicity and effectiveness of the framework, I was digging around in the source adding features. Shortly after that I started collaborating more closely with Chris Scott, creator of Swiz and a coworker of mine, and Sönke Rohde, the other Swiz team member. The three of us have been cranking away adding new features ever since and have a lot planned for the coming months.

Now that introductions are out of the way, let’s look at some code. I’m really not going to try and explain much of anything here because I’ve done that (heavily) in the code and comments of the application. In the recent past I have repeatedly found myself frustrated with a lack of examples when reading about new frameworks or projects people are promoting. I learn best and quickest when I can see something in action and figure out how it works, so I created this example for other people like me. If you have questions, comments or suggestions about the application you can obviously post them here, or you can post them in the Swiz Google Group where I will also be posting a link.

Lastly, a couple of disclaimers.

• Only the Employees view of the application contains anything. I only created multiple tabs to facilitate the mode monitor at the bottom of the app.
• I’ve placed the ASDocs above the metadata tags for the sake of readability and simplicity. In a real application the ASDocs (unfortunately) go between the metadata and the code.

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