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    <p>We are migrating our Flex-3.2 application to Flex 4.1, mainly to take advantage of the new text flow/engine features. In a first step we decided to go with compiling for <strong>MX-only and in Flex-3-compatibility mode</strong>.</p> <p>Thanks to some helpful resources (</p> <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexbuilder3_to_flashbuilder4.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexbuilder3_to_flashbuilder4.html</a></p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1563482/any-flex-4-migration-experience">Any Flex 4 migration experience?</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences_02.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences_02.html</a></p> <p>) I am able to compile our application.</p> <p>But I find myself surprised about the amount of runtime differences ranging from the problem that I cannot cast ResultEvent.currentTarget to HTTPService ( which apparently was introduced in 3.5 ) to many layout problems to differences in event dispatching ( e.g. one of our legacy components listens to the add event which it just doesn't seem to get anymore ).</p> <p>It seems there is very little documentation on this. I'd like to find a list with detailed changes so that we don't have to rely on QA to stumble across hopefully all issues.</p> <p><a href="http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4+Backwards+Compatability" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This documents lists some</a>, but doesn't seem exhaustive. <strong>Does someone have a better list of documented changes?</strong></p> <p>Thanks Stefan</p> <p><strong>PS. List of concrete examples I have found so far:</strong></p> <p><strong>1) In Flex 4 the add event is not fired:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;mx:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" layout="absolute" minWidth="955" minHeight="600"&gt; &lt;fx:Script&gt; &lt;![CDATA[ private function notFired():void { trace("ADDED"); } private function fired():void { trace("COMPLETE"); } ]]&gt; &lt;/fx:Script&gt; &lt;mx:TextArea add="notFired();" creationComplete="fired();"/&gt; &lt;/mx:Application&gt; </code></pre> <p>Now do the same in Flex 3 and you'll see both events fire.</p> <p>Apparently, <a href="http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-27357" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this is a bug</a>. Might be possible to work around this but certainly decreases my level or trust substantially.</p> <p><strong>2) Dialogs/popups show all content mirrored.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-26940" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A bug as well</a>. Easy to work around, but how could something that obvious slip?</p> <p><strong>3) Problems with injected "Ôª" chars.</strong></p> <p><a href="http://forums.adobe.com/message/3077179#3077179" rel="nofollow noreferrer">See post here.</a></p>
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    2. COThe question is: is there an all inclusive list of changes from SDK 3.2 to 4.1. Given the concrete problem that the add-event just doesn't fire as it used to and observing many differences when running my app in 3 compared to 4 (with compatibility ) I fear I otherwise have to run through all execution paths to find all potential problems which is quite a task.
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    3. CO@Stefan - that is after all the reason for unit testing :), I know it's not always easy or even possible with all the parts of Flash functionality and the fact that a lot of it is going to require visual inspection but this is a regular growing pain of switching versions, things are fixed and features are introduced and regression bugs pop-up occasionally. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.html https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+SDK+AND+status+in+%28Open%2C+%22In+Progress%22%2C+Reopened%29
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