Book Description
Build your first Flex application! Discover MXML as a great markup language to quickly create a working app. Get acquainted with the Flash Builder IDE, then get your hands dirty with some Flex basics, a few components and some data service features in Flash Builder to build an application that will load and display data from RSS.
Your First Information-Rich Application is the first of five articles that will be compiled in the book, Data Visualization with Flash Builder: Designing RIA and AIR Applications with Remote Data Sources. Each full-color article illustrates specific aspects of Flash Builder data visualization with techniques to employ them. The book, Data Visualization with Flash Builder, features exclusive material in the form of a related real-world tutorial project to go alongside each article. This article is equivalent to 55 print pages.
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Flex Framework
- Flash Builder
- Creating an Empty Application
- How to Run/Debug
- Using the Design View
- The Application Tag
- Namespace
- Visual Components
- Sizing Components
- Including Scripting
- Actionscript 3
- Classes
- Object-Oriented Support in Flash Builder
- Binding
- Very First Piece of GUI in Flash Builder
- Loading Data from Remote Locations
- Importing a Service
- Building a Data Model
- Refining the Application
- Conclusion
Product Information
- Title: Flash Builder @ Work: Your First Information-Rich Application
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): Focal Press
- ISBN: 9780240816661