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21 June 2010, 22:01

Flex 4: What happened to StyleManager?
On one my current jobs, I needed to update the Flex projects to use the new Flex 4. The update went pretty smoothly, except there were some warnings in Flash Builder saying things like
```
'getStyleDeclaration' has been deprecated since 4.0. Please use 'IStyleManager2.getStyleDeclaration on a style manager instance'
```
Well, those annoyed me but I couldn't find anything on how to get rid of it. The only articles I could find were for the old way. Eventually I found something that did it.

Your Flex 3 code:
```
StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration("styleDec");
```
And the equivalent code you need to get rid of the warning:
```
FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.styleManager.getStyleDeclaration("someStyle");
```
StyleManager is being replaced by a global instance sitting at the top of your app.
- adobe
- flex
—geowa4