Merry Christmas all! I am wondering how heavyweight databinding is. What I have is a class which handles all the I18N in my application. It is a simple class which loads an XML containing all the I18N strings and then provides a getKey() function to grab strings out.
What I have discovered is that I can directly bind labels and such in MXML directly to the XML i18n string. I am wondering though if this is a smart idea. The completed app could have a thousand or more i18n strings. Would it unnecessarily stress the application to have each one of these thousand strings setup with data binding? I'm wondering about increased memory and CPU usage. Not much is gained from the binding except slightly less code and I guess the possibility of changing all strings in the application to another language by simply loading another XML file. But again, I wonder how fast this would be. -- Collin Peters Lead Software Developer
