Use mx and spark components in pure ActionScript project?

I'm working on an AIR project in Flash Builder 4, but I'm not using MXML at all (pure ActionScript). Is there a way for me to instantiate and use mx and spark components without MXML? If not, what is the minimal amount of MXML I have to use? FYI, I've already tried all of the following hacks with absolutely no luck:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=143062
http://ersatz.tv/2009/off-topic-flex-components-without-mxml
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141288/possible-to-use-flex-framework-components-withou t-using-mxml
I much prefer ActionScript over MXML. Why does Adobe have such a hard-on for this MXML ****?! It's like all that code and all those great components are going to waste.

Me too.. . I'm a pure as3 guy and all these components go to waste. You would think they would allow people to generate components via mxml or as3...

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Hi,
First of all, please, excuse my english... I'll try to express in the best way I can...
I'm working in a AIR application, with Flash, Flex Builder y Action Script 3. I'm creating a new interface, and the main class extends from NativeWindow. The design and look&feel of my application is much different so I plan to create my own components, but I want to use some Spark or mx components and make some skinning or styling.
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[svn:fx-trunk] 13288: Changing the workaround for custom whitespace preservation in spark components in order to cater for fixes to SDK-24699 and SDK-24611 .

Revision: 13288
Revision: 13288
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-01-05 15:21:57 -0800 (Tue, 05 Jan 2010)
Log Message:
Changing the workaround for custom whitespace preservation in spark components in order to cater for fixes to SDK-24699 and SDK-24611.
We now preserve whitespace for all of the spark "text" tags at compile time (but not only-whitespace content if an alternate text attribute was specified).
QE notes: Please ensure that whitespace preservation continues to work, including for the scenarios mentioned in previous issues SDK-22601, SDK-23160, SDK-23972.
Doc notes: N/A
Bugs:
SDK-24699 - Binding does not work with Spark TextInput "text" property
SDK-24611 - MXML compiler should preserve whitespace in FlowElement tags (such as
Reviewer: Paul
Tests run: checkintests, mustella RichText, List, TextArea (the 2 baseline position failures existed prior to these changes)
Is noteworthy for integration: Yes
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24699
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24611
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-22601
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23160
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23972
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24699
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-24611
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Hi Dan,
It is a very rare occurrence when I miss not being able to access an object (object property, really) using the ["name"] notation for objects created using actionscript.
In MXML the compiler is conveniently adding an attribute to the class with the same name as the id, so you can conveniently refer to it using the [] notation. While we explicitly specify an application container to use, the MXML compiler creates a custom container which is a derivative of the base container and to that it adds properties for the children declared in MXML. I guess it also effectively calls "addElement" for us when the container is being constructed.
Your example assumes that using "addElement" to add the button to the application container is the same as declaring a variable (ie property ). It isn't, so there's no point in looking for an property of the name "as3Button" using the [] notation, because it doesn't exist. The container is managing a collection of children in it's display list and that's not the same as being accessible as properties of the container.
Generally speaking, accessing properties using the ["name"] syntax isn't necessary.
Paul
[edit: you may wonder why "addElement" doesn't conveniently also add the "id" attribute to be an property of the container class. Unfortunately, it can't because the container class would need to be dynamic and it's not. A further complication would be that adding properties at runtime would invite naming clashes at runtime with associated mayhem. MXML can do this because the compiler generates the class and can trap name duplication at compile time.
Great question, BTW.
-last edit changed my "attributes" to be "properties" in line with Adobe's terminology]

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