Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source, Volume 1

Lesson 14. Implementing Navigation

What You Will Learn

In this lesson, you will:

• Use the ViewStack class as the basis for implementing navigation

• Learn about the NavigatorContent class, which allows Spark-based containers in a ViewStack

• Use the ViewStack selectedIndex and selectedChild properties for navigation

Approximate Time

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

Imperative to any application is a navigation system. Users should be able to easily move around in an application and locate the functionality they need. Flex applications can implement navigation in one of two ways: using states, as you learned in the earlier lessons, and by using navigator containers.

Some navigation will be completely ...