July 2011
Beginner
496 pages
11h 42m
English
Content preview from Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Training from the Source
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Lesson 5: Handling Events
What You Will Learn
In this lesson, you will:
• Learn about Flex’s event-based programming model
• Pass data to an event handler using MXML
• Learn a bit about UI object creation order
• Handle both user and system events with ActionScript functions
• Understand the event object and its properties
Approximate Time
This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
An important part of building a rich Internet application (RIA) is building an effective client-side architecture. When you use Flash Builder as an authoring tool, you have the ability to follow object-oriented best practices and an event-based programming model that allows for loosely coupled applications. This type of development is very different for ...