Flex Development

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<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
	layout="absolute" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">
 
	<mx:Style>
		TextArea
		{
			cornerRadius: 5;
		}
		Application
		{
			backgroundColor: #FFFFFF;
		}
	</mx:Style>
 
	<mx:Script>
		<![CDATA[
			public function wordCount():void
			{
				if (countText.text == "")
				{
					//if there is not text, we'll set the total to 0
					totalWords.text = "0";
				}
				else
				{
					//to count the words, we'll split the string
					//into an array and get the length of that array
					var array:Array = countText.text.split(/\w+/);
					var total:int = array.length - 1;
					totalWords.text = total.toString();
				}
			}
		]]>
	</mx:Script>
 
	<mx:Form width="100%" height="100%">
		<mx:FormItem label="Text to Count">
			<mx:TextArea width="400" height="200"
				change="wordCount()" id="countText"/>
		</mx:FormItem>
		<mx:FormItem label="Total Words">
			<mx:Label id="totalWords" text="0"/>
		</mx:FormItem>
	</mx:Form>
 
</mx:Application>