Book description
Flex has revolutionized the development of rich Internet applications, giving developers the framework necessary to easily create ever more powerful applications. Components form an essential part of this framework, and once you understand how to fully use them, your productivity and creativity will be taken to a whole new level. Flex 3 Component Solutions will show just what you can achieve with components and exactly how to achieve it.
You'll see just how simple it is to use components to create amazing interfaces for your applications be they media players, data visualizations, 3D graphics—the list is long. Finally, there'll be times when you'll want to or have no alternative but to create your own components. This book will show you how to do this for your own ends, or so you can contribute to the Flex component community by distributing them.
Flex 3 Component Solutions is a tour de force of components, and all of these components are demonstrated using real-world Flex code that you can use as starting points for your own applications. Take what you learn for this book, and then go out and create your own amazing interfaces quickly and easily: reuse, re-purpose, redesign, and do it all faster and with greater quality control than you ever thought possible.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT THE TECHNICAL REVIEWER
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LAYOUT CONVENTIONS
- 1. A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO FLEX
- 2. MAKING STATES ROCK
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3. GETTING EVERYTHING SET UP
- 3.1. Building a solid foundation
- 3.2. Introducing components
- 3.3. Installing AS3CoreLib and FlexLib
- 3.4. Installing Elixir
- 3.5. Creating SWC libraries from MXP components
- 3.6. Setting up the server
- 3.7. Installing PHP
- 3.8. Installing AMFPHP
- 3.9. Installing the baseball data set
- 3.10. Installing the football data set
- 3.11. Installing the United States data (usdata) data set
- 3.12. The static content
- 3.13. Where we will go from here
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4. UPGRADING YOUR CONTAINERS
- 4.1. New styles of containers
- 4.2. Flow container
- 4.3. Drag scrolling
- 4.4. Smooth HBox and VBox
- 4.5. Button scrolling
- 4.6. Resizable and movable objects
- 4.7. Window shades
- 4.8. Horizontal accordion
- 4.9. Super tabs
- 4.10. Toolbars
- 4.11. Multiple Document Interface
- 4.12. Upgraded forms
- 4.13. Where we will go from here
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5. HANDY NEW CONTROL TYPES
- 5.1. New types of controls
- 5.2. Canvas buttons
- 5.3. Enhanced button skin
- 5.4. Korax ColorPicker
- 5.5. Wheels
- 5.6. Dual slider
- 5.7. Loading spinners
- 5.8. Prompts, description panes, and tooltips
- 5.9. Masked inputs
- 5.10. Auto-completion
- 5.11. Time entry
- 5.12. Vertical menus
- 5.13. Where we will go from here
- 6. FUN WITH IMAGES
- 7. AUDIO AND VIDEO COMPONENTS
- 8. 2D GRAPHING COMPONENTS: INTRODUCING CHARTING
- 9. 3D GRAPHING COMPONENTS
- 10. VISUALIZING TIME AND SPACE
- 11. INTERACTIVE MAPPING CONTROLS
- 12. INTRODUCING HIERARCHAL DATA AND COMPONENTS
- 13. NETWORK GRAPH COMPONENTS
- 14. COOL PREMADE SKINS
- 15. BUILDING YOUR OWN COMPONENTS
- 16. HACKING INTO DATA: A FLEX SKUNKWORKS
Product information
- Title: Flex 3 Component Solutions: Build Amazing Interfaces with Flex Components
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430215981
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