Book description
Don’t settle for Flex’s boring, standard user interface. Set your Flex applications apart with the breakthrough skinning and programming techniques found in Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0. Leading Flex developers Juan Sanchez and Andy McIntosh show how to build stunning Flex and AIR applications. You’ll learn how to take a design and translate that design into Flex or AIR without sacrificing fidelity, and how to apply state-of-the-art branding that adds value to all your Flex applications, no matter what they do or who you’re building them for.
Sanchez and McIntosh illuminate every aspect of creating superior visual experiences with Flex 3.0 and AIR and discuss planning, design, architecture, and proven user-interface principles, with an emphasis on technical implementation. You’ll learn how to alter the standard Flex interface using all the tools available to you: skins, styling, transitions, effects, filters, graphics built with Adobe creative tools, CSS, and ActionScript 3.0 programming.
The authors reveal the trade-offs associated with each approach to Flex visual experience design and help you choose the right techniques for your applications. They explain each concept and technique in detail, using real-world examples and exercises that solve specific problems and provide samples throughout each chapter.
If you want your Flex and AIR applications to be a cut above the rest, this is the book that shows you how.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Praise for Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- I: Introduction
- II: The Flex 3 Framework
- III: Beyond Flex
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IV: Exercises
- 4.1. Loading a Style Sheet at Runtime
- 5.1. Creating a Graphical Skin with Flash
- 5.2. Creating a Graphical Skin with Illustrator
- 5.3. Creating a Graphical Skin with Fireworks
- 5.4. Creating a Graphical Skin with Photoshop
- 6.1. Creating a Programmatic Skin
- 7.1. Creating a Chat Dialog Window Using a List
- 7.2. Creating a Photo Gallery Using a TileList
- 9.1. Embedding a Font in a SWF File Using Flash
- 9.2. Packaging a CSS File with a Font as a SWF
- 9.3. Creating a Style Sheet for HTML Text
- 11.1. Applying a Custom Effect
- 11.2. Creating a Transition between View States
- 12.1. Creating a Graphical Skin Using the Flex Component Kit
- 12.2. Using Flash Skin Templates
- 12.3. Creating a Custom Container Using the Flex Component Kit
- 12.4. Using Motion XML
- V: References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780321591098
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