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Overview

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 ...

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Overview

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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781430215981
  • Publisher: Apress
  • Publication date: 11/14/2008
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 432
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Jack Herrington is a software engineer with over 25 years of experience who has written numerous articles, including many on Flex and Rails. He was a member of the Flex Builder team at Macromedia. His first book, Code Generation In Action, used Ruby and was an inspiration to the author of Rails. His blog can be found at jackherrington.com.

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  • Posted February 27, 2010

    An Overview of some Flex 3 UserInterface Components

    Library components have many advantages that have been exploited in desktop applications at least since Borland introduced the Visual Component Library in the early 1990s, although probably the oldest would be Seymour Cray's development of tokened execution blocks in the early 1960s for the CDC 160A computer.

    The web world, based on html and css scripts for presentation and javascript for interaction, has not been able to take advantage of encapsulated components for a variety of reasons, but the new rich internet applications are increasingly using them. They not only offer excellent user experiences and desktop-like responsiveness, but simplify and accelerate software development, as well as increase reliability and code reuse at a modular level.

    This book demonstrates a sample of Flex 3 UI components from a variety of vendors, generally organized into functional areas such as image manipulation, audio and video management, graphing techniques and data visualization.

    The book's first chapter starts with a general high level overview of the Flex development environment, with a tacit assumption that the reader is proficient with developing and managing compiled code. Those who may not be familiar with Flex itself can pick up the overall concepts quickly if they have any experience with XML, on which Flex's mxml structure is based. The logical glue that Flex requires is done with ActionScript, a C-like compiled language based on the E4X programming language extension.

    The book includes a chapter outlining how to setup Flex projects, as well as how to convert the several component packages into a form that can be used directly within Flex. The examples' server side is based on Apache and PHP, but the DDL and datasets as CSV files are made available for those who use other backend technology stacks. All the example code, except for the vendor components, can be downloaded from the publisher's website, which includes the Flex projects, example SWFs, images and datasets.

    The following chapters highlight vendor components in broad functional areas. These components are not provided, but must be obtained separately from the respective vendor sites, with most of available on a trial basis.

    There is a chapter that outlines how Flex components can be built, which is limited to how the project would be setup in the development tool.

    This book, again, is a sampler of Flex components that extend the native set that comes with Flex Builder's framework. The code examples show how these can be folded into a Flex project, but there is very little on how to extend them. Similarly, examination of Flex's workings, such as mxml layout precedence and ActionScript code annotations or descriptions, is limited.

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  • Posted February 22, 2010

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    Flex 3 Component Solutions : Build Amazing Interfaces with Flex Components

    Excellent book for resources and best usage of Flex Components. Great examples of component libraries, image galleries and video players. Gets you up and running in no time.

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  • Posted October 19, 2009

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    Excellent book (but only if you want to find out more about existing Flex components on the web)

    How many times did you bump into your code buddy who told you "That problems bothers you? Well, there is a very good library for this.... You trying to do what?? There's already a good solution for that."
    If you want to be the guy who knows all there answers, you should take a look at this book.

    First of all, this book is not about creating new components for your RIA Flex application. This book is about where to find an excellent solutions and how to upgrade your existing applications with already made Flex libraries and Flex components.

    I believe this book is not for beginners, but for experienced Flex developers who want to expand their knowledge of existing Flex libraries.

    There is one page in the book for which I would buy this book. It contains the names and links of SWC libraries, Flex APIs and component sites that are described in this book. Perhaps it wouldn't be fair to say the content of this page :)

    The first chapter talks about entering into Flex world, how to make basic GUI. If you are an experienced developer, but without any Flex experience, this could be useful, but for better understanding of this technology, try something from Adobe Library.

    Next chapters will be an excellent resource for Flex developers - you will install AMFPHP functionality, get some datasets for chart display, you will learn more about component libraries, image galleries, MP3- and video players, how to implement input components with specific validation, how to use some ILOG or QAVIS components.

    This book will not teach you how to make your GUI, it will tell what's out there on the web and how to use it. I believe this book will give you some new ideas what you could implement in your Flex products

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