Is there a mailing list where I can get help from the Swiz community?
Absolutely, you can find the Swiz group at http://groups.google.com/group/swiz-framework.
If I am building the Swiz framework from the source code, what compiler arguments do I need?
-keep-as3-metadata+=Inject,Autowire,Mediate,Dispatcher,PostConstruct,PreDestroy -namespace http://swiz.swizframework.org manifest.xml -include-namespaces http://swiz.swizframework.org
Be sure you only compile the /src directory into the library. Trying to compile the other packages, such as /tests, will result in library compile errors.
I try to access my injected property during creationComplete but the reference is still null?
Swiz injects dependencies when the view's addedToStage event is dispatched, which is after creationComplete. Inject to a setter function to have direct access to the injected reference, or move your logic into a method decorated with [PostConstruct].
Does Swiz work with Flex 4?
Yes, Swiz works with Flex 2,3 and 4.
Does Swiz work with Adobe AIR?
Yes, there is in general no difference between Web or AIR development. An additional Desktop Extensions library is available to add desktop-specific features.
I have dispatched an event from a view but the dynamic mediator is not invoked?
Ensure that the bubbles property of the event is true.
Why aren't bubbling events dispatched from a PopUp handled by Swiz?
Swiz uses the display object where it was created as its "root event dispatcher", and it listens for events on that event dispatcher. However, PopUps are not added to this display list, they are added as direct children of the SystemManager object, since they must appear above everything else in the application. As a result, events dispatched from PopUps don't bubble up to the Swiz dispatcher. However, the solution to this is simple: just use [Dispatcher] to inject the Swiz dispatcher into your PopUp, and dispatch events through it. This way, Swiz can process them.
Where is my application logic starting point?
Let your main controller implement IInitializingBean, or decorate a method with [PostConstruct], and start with your application logic in that method. Swiz calls these methods on beans when the injection process is complete.
How should I dispatch events from bean classes?
You should inject a dispatcher using the [Dispatcher] metadata, and dispatch application events through this dispatcher.
Why did my view not get injections processed?
Be sure that the viewPackages in the SwizConfig tag are set correctly.
I defined a WebService object in my Beans.mxml, but my web service calls don't seem to work. What's wrong?
The Flex WebService class actually has two implementations, one for MXML and one for AS3. If you define a WebService within a UIComponent, the Flex framework automatically triggers a load of the web service's WSDL in the UIComponent's creationComplete() handler. However, the AS3 version does not (it has no creationComplete() handler). Because the BeanProvider is not a UIComponent, this automatic loading of the WSDL is not done by the Flex framework. As a result, you must call loadWSDL() on your web service before you can use it, because you are actually using the WebService's AS3 implementation.