A Lightening Introduction to Flex using Flash Develop

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Open Source on the Flash Platform A lightening introduction to Flex www.fboyle.com Fintan Boyle www.meetup.com/augdublin
Agenda
- What is Flex
- Using Flash Develop
- Quick Code demo
In a nutshell: A demonstration of Flex using the FlashDevelop IDE
What is Flex?
- A way to create swf files
- A component library
- 2 core languages
- Has no dependencies on Flash CS4 IDE
www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/
Flash Develop IDE
- currently Version 3.0.0 RC2 (09/03/09)
- not perfect, Flex Builder still plays a part
- Ctrl+Shift+1 is your friend
- Improved quality of life
“ a popular free and open source ActionScript 2/3 and web development environment…” (Flex Builder is free for students!!)
Sites of interest
- adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/
- Flashdevelop.org
- developer.yahoo.com/flash
- code.google.com/p/openflux
- flex.org/tour
- osflash.org
- www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin
- framework.zend.com/download/amf