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Flex in a Week
Learn Flex in a week by going through this video training course. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order in which they are listed. If you run into problems and have questions, please post your question to the Flex in a Week forum.
Note: Before you begin this training, be sure you have Flex Builder installed.
Flex Builder 3
(Optional) Download a free copy of the O'Reilly book, Getting Started with Flex 3 (PDF, 1.4 MB).
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- Install Adobe Media Player.
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- Copy and paste this URL: http://sessions.adobe.com/FlexInAWeek/feed.xml
Day 1: Flex basics
- Day 1 project files (ZIP; 3.8 MB)
- Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and Adobe AIR (5:30)
- Introducing Flex Builder (7:22)
- Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project (7:04)
- Using pre-built Flex controls (4:34)
- Understanding MXML (4:07)
- Exercise 1: Creating a project and laying out controls
- Binding data between controls (5:48)
- Handling user events (6:22)
- Introducing the event object (10:40)
- Adding EventListeners with ActionScript (5:21)
- Exercise 2: Binding data and handling a user event
- Retrieving data via HTTPService (8:26)
- Exercise 3: Populating a control from an HTTPService request
Day 2: Component development
- Day 2 project files (ZIP; 975 KB)
- Displaying data in the DataGrid (6:35)
- Working with containers (12:12)
- Exercise 4: Working with containers
- Creating custom MXML components (8:42)
- Exercise 5: Creating custom MXML components
- Implementing value object classes (13:46)
- Creating custom events (5:59)
- Creating custom event classes (23:06)
- Exercise 6: Creating custom events and dispatching data
- Customizing item renderers (6:42)
- Exercise 7: Creating an item renderer
- Exploring Flex Builder tips (5:18)
Day 3: Putting it all together
- Day 3 project files (ZIP; 35 MB)
- Validating data (7:15)
- Exercise 8: Validating form data
- Requesting and sending data with RemoteObject (20:52) Read me
- Exercise 9: Using RemoteObject to send data to the server
- Exercise 9 (ColdFusion): Using RemoteObject to send data to the server
- Formatting data (6:09)
- Dragging data between List components (5:20)
- Exercise 10: Implementing drag and drop between components
- Filtering XML with E4X (12:04)
- Exercise 11: Using XML with E4X
- Deploying Flex and AIR applications (11:57) Read me
- Exercise 12: Deploying a Flex application
- Exercise 13: Creating and deploying an AIR application
Day 4: Adding visual appeal
- Day 4 project files (ZIP; 5.3 MB)
- Implementing navigator containers (17:15)
- Embedding images (11:58)
- Embedding fonts (28:59)
- Exercise 14: Working with navigation containers, embedding fonts and images
- Creating constraint-based layouts (21:50)
- Applying styles to MXML components (29:06)
- Exercise 15: Working with constraints and using MXML styles
- Skining components with Adobe CS3 (28:14)
- Exercise 16: Skinning components graphically
- Creating view states (23:01)
- Animating with behaviors and transitions (18:06)
- Exercise 17: Working with view states, animation, and transitions
- Drawing shapes with the Drawing API (22:32)
- Skinning components programmatically (12:09)
- Exercise 18: Drawing shapes and programmatic skinning
- Extending components (27:27)
- Exercise 19: Extending components
Day 5: Architecture and advanced topics
Note: The following videos have been compiled from various resources to complement the Flex in a Week videos above. The source files for these videos are not available. However, the exercises have been created especially for this training and do include starter and solution files.
- Understanding the behavior of the Flash timing mechanism (4:18)
- Using custom Flash graphics in Flex components (6:42)
- Using and animating filters (4:35)
- Exercise 20: Using and animating filters
- Creating SWC files (10:46)
- Exercise 21: Creating SWC files
- Building runtime shared libraries (7:15)
- Exercise 22: Building runtime shared libraries
- Splitting your application into modules (8:45)
- Communicating over local connections (6:20)
- Exercise 23: Communicating over local connections
- Using shared objects (4:20)
- Exercise 24: Using shared objects
- Reducing the file size of your Flex application (4:58)
- (Optional) Embedding video in your application (2:09)
- Exercise 25: Embedding video
- (Optional) Controlling video using Ajax (2:19)
- Localization using resource bundles (5:05)
- Exercise 26: Localization using resource bundles
- (Optional) Integrating Flex with PHP using XML (7:44)
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