It’s been a while since I worked on my open source project, flexwires. If you’re unfamiliar with the project, it provides a way to connect wires within a Flex app through drag-and-drop interaction to pass data around. The first and only release was back in late 2008. Since I’ve been using flexwires again recently, I figured now was a good time to make some updates and address a couple of issues that people have mentioned to me.

First and foremost, flexwires should now be compatible with Flex 4. It still targets Flex 3 and uses the Halo theme, but that shouldn’t stop you from using it within a Flex 4 app now. Secondly, flexwires should be working properly in Adobe AIR now too. Flex’s drag-and-drop works differently depending on whether it’s running in the browser or if it’s in an AIR app, which I didn’t know before. That’s fixed now, and you should properly see placeholder wires while dragging now.

There’s a new flexwires 1.1.0 ZIP to download over at github. The SWC inside is built with the Flex 3.5 SDK, but you should be able to include it in a Flex 4 project without any issues.