Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source

Chapter 10. Creating Custom Components with ActionScript 3.0

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In this lesson, you will:

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Create a class for your component

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Embed images in ActionScript

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Instantiate Flex components in ActionScript

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Override the createChildren() and updateDisplayList() methods

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Understand the mechanism used by Flex to determine size and positioning

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This lesson takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.

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Media Files:

• None

Starting Files:

• Lesson10/start/Dashboard.mxml

• Lesson10/start/views/dashboard/ChartPod.mxml ...