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The Essential Guide to Flex 3

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Charles E. Brown
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  • Flex is a hot topic, and Flex 3 is very hotly anticipated new release

  • This book is a thorough learning guide covering all the essential Flex 3, Flex Builder 3, and ActionScript 3.0 topics from beginner to advanced level

  • It covers all the new features provided by Flex 3

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Flex Basics

    Pages 1-21

  3. Flex and Flex Builder 3

    Pages 23-52

  4. Actionscript

    Pages 55-95

  5. Containers

    Pages 97-165

  6. Events and Components

    Pages 167-199

  7. Flex and XML

    Pages 201-262

  8. Formatting and Cascading Style Sheets

    Pages 265-298

  9. The Repeater Component

    Pages 301-318

  10. Drag and Drop

    Pages 321-338

  11. Case Study: Part 1

    Pages 341-385

  12. Case Study: Part 2

    Pages 387-436

  13. Flex and Data

    Pages 439-487

  14. Printing

    Pages 489-502

  15. Charting

    Pages 505-523

  16. Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)

    Pages 525-548

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 550-580
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About this book

Flex 3 is the next generation of a technology that revolutionized web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation medium to a powerful enterprise web design and development platform. With nearly 98% of all web browsers, and a growing number of mobile devices, running Flash Player, a knowledge of Flex is indispensible for any serious web developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful rich Internet applications using Flex 3. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 3 software, you will explore in-depth how the Flash scripting language, ActionScript 3.0, interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML.

You'll learn how to construct your applications using layout and navigation containers, and how to move between various states using transitions. There is coverage of how best to plan your applications and use the Model-View-Controller pattern to keep various aspects of development separated and ease creation of potentially complicated projects.

Rich Internet applications rely on data, and this book shows how to bring data from various sources into your Flex application and check its integrity, and how best to display and interact with it.

Going farther, applications built for the Flash platform can now exist and function beyond the traditional confines of the web browser. Adobe AIR allows you to take your applications to the desktop, and this book shows how to reapply your Flex skills to take advantage of this new environment.

The Essential Guide to Flex 3 takes you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of stand-alone, practical exercises. The skills acquired throughout the book are then brought together in the form of a full-featured case study application showcasing essential techniques that can easily be applied to your own Flex applications.

About the author

Charles Brown is one of the most noted author, consultant, and trainers in the industry today. His books about Dreamweaver and Fireworks have received critical acclaim and used worldwide as teaching tools. In addition to his work in the IT industry, Charles is also a noted concert pianist, organist, and guitarist appearing in major concert centers world-wide. He began his musical studies at age 4 and went on to study with famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At age 14, he made his debut with Leonard Bernstein and later studied at the famed Juilliard School. Eventually he went to Paris to study with the 20th century legend, Igor Stravinsky. While working with Stravinsky, Charles developed a close friendship with one of the most powerful artistic forces of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. What he learned about creativity from Picasso he uses today in his writings and training work. Charles is a certified Macromedia/Adobe trainer who is in heavy demand worldwide. He frequently speaks at major conferences such as MAX and NAB. You can see his blog at blog.charlesebrown.net and his website can be found at CharlesEBrown.net.

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