The guaranteed, rock solid way to force a UIView to re-render is [myView setNeedsDisplay]. If you’re having trouble with that, you’re likely running into one of these issues: You’re calling it before you actually have the data, or your -drawRect: is over-caching something. You’re expecting the view to draw at the moment you call this … Read more
The syntax is a little different for URLRequest, but the idea’s the same: private function doWork():void { var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://yoursite.com/yourservice.ext”); req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST; req.data = new URLVariables(“name=John+Doe”); var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder(); encoder.encode(“yourusername:yourpassword”); var credsHeader:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader(“Authorization”, “Basic ” + encoder.toString()); req.requestHeaders.push(credsHeader); var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); loader.load(req); } A couple of … Read more