Introduction to Flex Builder 3, containers, navigators, events, xml, dynamic data

1. Ravi Kumar Hamsa Introduction To Flex

2. Flex is the way to make Rich Internet Applications quickly and easily Why Flex? Quick, Easy, Well Supported Flex is nothing but Flash What is Flex?

3. Flex Builder 3.0 Start Page Navigator Outline Design/Source View Components Panel Property Panel -keep-generated-actionscript

4. Scripting Language for Flash run-time EMCAScript-262 specifications based AVM 2 ActionScript 3.0

5. Document Type Definition (DTD) Application Tag Layout absolute/vertical/horizontal Convenience language MXML

6. width height alpha scaleX scaleY visible enabled x y Common Properties

7. Canvas VBox HBox Panel VDividedBox HDividedBox Containers

8. Menu Bar Tab Navigator View Stack Navigators

9. Label Text TextInput TextArea Image Sliders Controls

10. {} <mx:Binding source=“this” destination=“that” /> Data Binding

11. Creating States Navigating btw States Animating States States

12. Inline Styles (camel case names) Style Tag External StyleSheets Selectors (Type, styleName, global) Type selectors only @ application level Inheritance No #(id) selector Style Design View Precedence CSS

13. Simple Event Handling Event Handlers Event Objects Events

14. HTTP Service ResultEvent FaultEvent External Data

15. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html Shift+F2 Tour de Flex Resources