We just returned from a wonderful two-week excursion to South Africa and now that I can no longer swing from trees (albeit with a harness) in Tsitsikamma or fling myself from a cliff (albeit with a rope) in Knysna, I've returned to the less life-threathening pursuits of my never-ending quest for best practices Flash and Flex development! And with that, here's my article for today, which I just posted to the Flex forums at the London Macromedia User Group:
The Finding a suitable onLoad() replacement for Flex forms article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
Finding a suitable onLoad() replacement for Flex forms.
The Finding a suitable onLoad() replacement for Flex forms article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.

It is exactly what I was looking for, looks a little complex though.
had a terrible experience with Flex, turned out that Flex continues running while is waiting for the data to come in from a webservice
maybe this can be a solution
Thanks
link is broken
thanks a lot