Chapter 7. Creating Components with MXML

<feature><title>What You Will Learn</title>

In this lesson, you will:

  • Understand the need for components and how they can fit into a bigger application architecture scheme

  • Understand the class hierarchy used in Flex

  • Build both visual and nonvisual components

  • Instantiate and use custom components

  • Create properties and methods in custom components

  • Create a pop-up window and learn how to close it

  • Create a value object ActionScript class

</feature><feature><title>Approximate Time</title>

This lesson takes approximately 3 hours to complete.

</feature><feature><title>Lesson Files</title>

Media Files:

  • Lesson07/assets/AddProduct.mxml

Starting Files:

  • Lesson07/start/Dashboard.mxml

  • Lesson07/start/DataEntry.mxml

  • Lesson07/start/EComm.mxml ...

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