Flex 3 Component Solutions: Build Amazing Interfaces with Flex Components

by Jack Herrington

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430215981
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/14/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	399
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About 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.

Table of Contents

A quick and dirty introduction to Flex and Flex Builder 3 Making the most of the standard control set Data visualizations with Flex’s own components Visualizing data in 2D with Elixir Visualizing data in 3D with Elixir Building specialized chart and graphs with Elixir Interactive mapping with Google and Yahoo Maps Advanced Flash Components Flashloaded Components Components for the display of hierarchal data Upgrading the basic controls with Flexlib Recipes For States And Transitions Making the most of the standard controls with item renderers Customizing your controls with skins