The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0

Charles E. Brown

500 pages, parution le 15/11/2006

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Résumé

Understand MXML containers
Create transitions
Create data-driven applications with XML
Interface Flex with ColdFusion
Understand the power of states

Flex 2 represents something of a revolution in web applications. It is the next evolutionary step of Flash, which has grown from a web animation tool to a powerful enterprise web design and development tool. with nearly 98% of all web browsers and cellular phones running the Flash player needed to use Flash and Flex applications, knowledge of Flex is indispensable for any serious web designer and developer.

This book will show you how to create powerful, rich Internet applications using Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0. After learning how to install and becoming familiar with the basics of the Flex Builder 2 software, you will explore in depth how ActionScript 3.0 interacts with Flex's powerful XML-like design language: MXML. the text will take you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of strictly practical exercises.

You will:

Examine the power of designing layouts using Flex's MXML containers.
Discover many of the new features of ActionScript 3.0.
Work your way through a professional case study, building up a complete Flex application.
Connect Flex to Adobe's powerful ColdFusion application server, and start to work with Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side code.
Learn how states can smoothly transition your application interfaces between different data displays.

Put quite simply, this book is all you'll need to master Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 application development. Welcome to the revolution!

L'auteur - Charles E. Brown

Charles Brown est l'un des auteurs, consultants et formateurs les plus réputés dans le monde des technologies de l'information aujourd'hui. Ses ouvrages sur Flex, vivement salués, sont utilisés comme outils d'enseignement dans le monde entier.

Sommaire

Introducing RIAs and Installing Flex Builder 2
Introducing Flex and Flex Builder 2
Introducing ActionScript 3.0
Containers and Components
Navigation Containers
Flex and XML
States
Case Study: Part 1
The Repeater Component
Case Study: Part 2
Drag and Drop
Flex and ColdFusion
Charting
Printing
Unfinished Symphony

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Friendsof ED
Auteur(s)	Charles E. Brown
Parution	15/11/2006
Nb. de pages	500
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	862g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781590597330
ISBN13	978-1-59059-733-0