17.7. Summary

You’ll spend a good portion of your time making custom components as you scale your Flex applications, so it’s worth gathering as much information as you can on the subject from trustworthy resources so you can gain as solid a foundation as possible in this area.

As you’ve learned, all visual components are subclasses of the base UIComponent class. Remember that you get all the events, styles, properties, and functions that come with the parent you’re inheriting from, and the key to making powerful custom components is tapping into and seamlessly integrating directly into the Flex component lifecycle.