Techniques for separating ActionScript from MXML

This section follows a single sample application and shows how it uses several different methods of separating ActionScript from the MXML. The Temperature application takes input from a single input field and uses a function to convert the input from Farenheit to Celsius. It then displays the resulting temperature in a Label control.

The following figure shows the sample Temperature application:

There are several ways to separate MXML and ActionScript in this simple application that calls a single function:

• One MXML document (ActionScript event handling logic in MXML tag)
• One MXML document (function call in MXML tag event)
• One MXML document and one ActionScript file
• One codeless MXML document and one ActionScript component

The following sections describe these methods.

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