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
46
Combined Layouts
The Panel Container 48
50
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
77
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
105
The FlexLib Project
105
Distortion Effects
106
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