O'reilly - Getting Started With Adobe Flex 3 [PDF]

Who Should Read This Book

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This book is primarily intended for people who are new to Flex

or who have tried previous versions of Flex and are interested

in what’s new in Flex 3. I’ve designed the book to be a quick

tour of the Flex world without delving too deeply into any one

topic. To provide in-depth coverage of every topic I present in

the book would require five times the page count, which could

present a health hazard to you, dear reader.



Contents

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Chapter 1: Installing Flex Builder 3

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Installing the IDE 1

Having Some Image Fun 2



Chapter 2: Flex in Action 7

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E-Commerce 7

Online Applications 9

Multimedia 11

Plug-ins and Widgets 12

Dashboards 15

Desktop Applications 16

What Will You Do? 18



Chapter 3: Flex 101: Step by Step 19

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A Flickr Viewer



Chapter 4: Flex Controls and Layout 37

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The Application Container 37

The Box Class 39

The Canvas Container (Absolute Positioning) 41

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The Canvas Container (Relative Positioning)

The Form Container 44

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Combined Layouts

The Panel Container 48

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Controls

Data Grids 51

Tabs and Accordions 55

Menus 58

Divider Boxes 60

CSS 61

Filters and Effects 65



Chapter 5: Working with the Server 67

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POSTing to the Server with Flex

Using the HTTPService Tag 70

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Going on from Here



Chapter 6: More Flex Applications 79

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A Runner’s Calculator 79

A Simple Image Viewer 83

Drag-and-Drop 86

States and Transitions 88

Creating Better Movies 95



Chapter 7: Advanced Flex Controls 101

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ILOG Elixir 101

Advanced Flash Components 104

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The FlexLib Project

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Distortion Effects

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SpringGraph



Chapter 8: Flex for Widgets 109

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Slide Show Widget 109

Chat Widget 114

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Chapter 9: Flex on AIR

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Creating an AIR Version of the Runner’s Calculator 119

Chapter 10: Resources for Flex Developers 123

Flex Websites 123

Blogs and Sites 123

The Flex Cookbook 124

Community Resources 125

Books 125

Index