Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1

Lesson 8. Using Data Binding and Collections

What You Will Learn

In this lesson, you will:

• Learn how data binding works

• Replicate binding with event listeners

• Populate an ArrayCollection for binding

• Use an IViewCursor to locate, retrieve, and remove data in an ArrayCollection

• Hide internal functionality using implicit getters and setters

Approximate Time

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

In the last lesson you created a ShoppingCart class to hold items for purchase in your application. This lesson will continue building on the ShoppingCart, as you enable it to work with a visual interface and learn to use the advanced features of the collection classes to manipulate and display up-to-date information to the ...