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Learning Flex 3
How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique
hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples
right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications
with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress,
you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work
with data, and deploy your applications
to either the Web or
the desktop.
Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are
clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author
Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and
teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand
how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work
with ActionScript, how to deploy RIAs to the desktop using
Adobe AIR, and much more.
Whether you're a beginner, or an experienced web developer
coming to Flex from another platform, Learning Flex 3 is the
ideal way to learn how to:
Set up your environment with FlexBuilder and Eclipse
Create a new Flex project
Use the different design views in Flex
Write code with MXML
Lay out your Flex application
Embed images and graphics
Build a user interface
Add interactivity with ActionScript
Handle user input
Move, display, and collect data
Add custom components with MXML
Add sound effects, filters, and transitions
Style your applications with CSS, skins, and themes
Deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using
Adobe AIR
Also included are brief explanations of objects, classes,
components, properties, methods, types, and other Flex
attributes. You will find that Learning Flex 3 is not only
the most complete tutorial for Flex, it's also the quickest
way to get going with the latest version of this powerful
framework.
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