since i started using Flash Builder (Flex 4) i could see that it can auto-generate some handlers for example if i have a <s:Button> and i add a click="" i get a hint of “Generate Click Handler” and when i click Enter he writes this code:
**protected** function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
Now i knew about public and private things(functions/vars) and if a function was public i could execute it form outside of the class and inside. But if it was private i could only execute it from inside of the class and i couldn’t execute it from outside of the class.
So anyway, what does “protected” mean? what does it do?
I was thinking that if i load a SWF in my app I can go inside of that SWF and execute functions, read values from variables, or anything like that … and that seems like a [SIZE=3]security problem[/SIZE] … So i was wondering if the “protected” keyword could help me with this security problem. And if not, I would like to know what is it good for 
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