Flex 3 Essential Training

with:

David Gassner

Application developers who want to create cross-platform, data-centric applications need the power of Flex 3. In Flex 3 Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor David Gassner starts with the basics of understanding Flex, its projects, and its related programming languages. He explores the intricacies of the development platform and the Flex Builder 3 integrated development environment, then gives in-depth, hands-on tutorials on creating, designing, customizing, and publishing dynamic web and desktop applications in Flex 3. Exercise files accompany the course.

Released on: 2/24/2008

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Table of contents

Introduction
	Welcome	0:48	0.8 MB
	Setting up the exercise files	2:28	3.0 MB
	Understanding the prerequisites	1:16	1.3 MB
1. Getting Started
	Understanding Adobe Flex 3	7:22	8.1 MB
	Installing Flex Builder on Windows	5:23	4.7 MB
	Installing Flex Builder on Mac OS X	4:45	5.9 MB
	Starting Flex Builder	3:10	3.5 MB
	Creating a Flex project	6:16	6.6 MB
	Touring through Flex Builder 3	13:15	16.1 MB
	Building a basic application	6:49	8.7 MB
	Understanding the anatomy of an MXML application	7:58	9.9 MB
	Understanding Flex application output files	7:23	11.2 MB
	Importing and exporting projects	3:50	5.0 MB
2. Programming Languages
	Understanding Flex programming languages	7:20	6.8 MB
	Translating MXML to ActionScript	9:38	11.6 MB
	Understanding the Flex framework	3:33	4.4 MB
	Getting language and API help	5:50	9.9 MB
3. Using Visual Controls
	Understanding visual controls	2:46	3.1 MB
	Displaying text with the Label and Text controls	8:27	10.4 MB
	Using Text Data Entry controls	11:30	13.9 MB
	Using binding expressions	7:44	9.2 MB
	Formatting data	8:37	12.8 MB
	Presenting images	9:39	12.2 MB
4. Using Custom Components
	Creating custom components	4:32	4.9 MB
	Instantiating custom components in MXML	4:54	5.2 MB
	Instantiating custom components in ActionScript	5:26	6.5 MB
	Declaring component properties	6:05	8.4 MB
	Declaring component methods	5:28	7.1 MB
5. Using Design View
	Understanding Design view	3:27	4.9 MB
	Using the Components view	3:49	5.5 MB
	Using the Flex Properties view	4:29	6.8 MB
	Navigating the Design Area	5:59	8.5 MB
	Creating View States	5:44	7.6 MB
	Changing View States at Runtime	3:34	4.5 MB
6. Application Layout
	Understanding containers	1:56	2.4 MB
	Using the VBox, HBox, and Canvas containers	8:07	10.1 MB
	Using the Panel and Control Bar containers	7:25	9.7 MB
	Laying out the Photo Album application	5:41	7.5 MB
	Using the Tile container	4:50	7.0 MB
	Using constraint-based layout	7:23	10.6 MB
7. Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
	Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	5:35	7.1 MB
	Using embedded style sheets	4:03	5.2 MB
	Understanding style selectors	8:00	10.7 MB
	Using external style sheets	7:25	10.9 MB
	Applying styles to the Photo Album application	6:19	9.7 MB
	Embedding fonts	4:48	6.5 MB
8. Application Navigation
	Using the ViewStack container	3:02	3.8 MB
	Creating programmatic navigation with ActionScript	3:43	5.1 MB
	Using Navigation Bar containers	6:35	8.7 MB
	Using the TabNavigator and Accordion containers	3:28	4.6 MB
	Creating navigation in the Photo Album application	5:49	11.2 MB
9. Debugging
	Understanding the Debugging perspective	2:43	3.5 MB
	Tracing application execution	6:24	9.5 MB
	Using breakpoints	5:26	7.6 MB
	Watching variables and expressions	8:54	12.0 MB
10. Programming with Events
	Understanding the Flex event architecture	5:34	6.1 MB
	Using MXML attribute-based event listeners	4:06	5.1 MB
	Understanding event objects	8:43	11.7 MB
	Creating event listeners with addEventListener()	7:05	10.3 MB
	Dispatching Events from Custom Components	6:22	8.6 MB
	Handling events from custom components	4:13	5.5 MB
	Creating and using custom event classes	5:33	7.3 MB
	Dispatching and handling custom events	4:44	6.7 MB
11. Using Dynamic Data
	Loading XML data with HTTPService	9:23	11.3 MB
	Handling HTTPService result events	7:22	9.5 MB
	Handling HTTPService fault events	6:41	9.4 MB
	Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Windows	6:44	8.5 MB
	Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X	5:26	7.2 MB
	Creating a sample database	2:51	3.8 MB
	Creating a Flex project for use with PHP	3:21	3.9 MB
	Generating a dynamic Flex/PHP application	5:44	6.7 MB
	Reviewing generated PHP code	3:25	5.0 MB
	Using a dynamic XML based service	5:28	10.3 MB
	Using a Repeater to display dynamic data	6:39	12.9 MB
12. Using Data-Driven List Controls
	Using List-Based controls	5:26	6.6 MB
	Using the labelField property	3:26	5.0 MB
	Using the labelFunction Property	6:17	8.9 MB
	Creating custom item renderers	5:17	7.1 MB
	Using component item renderers	4:50	7.4 MB
	Using the TileList in the Photo Album application	6:54	11.6 MB
	Using the DataGrid control	6:30	8.9 MB
	Using advanced DataGrid cell rendering	5:22	7.7 MB
	Working with List Control events and properties	4:58	8.5 MB
13. Creating Data Entry Form Components
	Building a form component	6:40	8.3 MB
	Validating Data Entry controls	9:52	13.8 MB
	Packaging data with a Value Object Class	4:23	6.3 MB
	Sharing data with custom events	4:38	6.2 MB
	Sending data to the server	5:45	8.4 MB
14. Deploying Flex Applications to the Web
	Exporting a Release Build	2:56	4.1 MB
	Using the View Source feature	5:16	8.2 MB
Conclusion
	Goodbye	0:28	0.5 MB