MACROMEDIA FLEX-GETTING STARTED WITH FLEX User Manual download pdf (Page 18)

Once you have the software installed, launch it and you should

see the splash screen shown in Figure 1-1.

the splash screen you will see the words Built on Eclipse.

Eclipse is an extensible cross-platform IDE developed by IBM

that is popular in the Java™ world. However, you can also use

it to build PHP as well as Rails or, in this case, Flex applications.

If you are familiar with Eclipse you will be fairly familiar with

what you see in Figure 1-2.

Figure 1-2 shows the IDE when no projects are defined. On the

upper left is the project and file area. On the bottom left is the

Outline inspector that will show you the nested tags in your

Flex application files. On the top right is the Start page that

comes up by default. You should check out the links on the

Start page because they will bring you to helpful material to get

you started. The bottom-right panel, labeled Problems, is

where you are alerted to issues (e.g., syntax errors) in your Flex

code that keep Flex Builder from successfully compiling your

application.

Having Some Image Fun

To get started quickly with Flex, select a new Flex project from

the New item in the File menu. Use whatever project name you

like. I used “starter.” From there, take any image from your

Figure 1-1. The startup splash screen

2 | Chapter 1: Installing Flex Builder 3

1 2 ... 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... 147 148

No comments

MACROMEDIA FLEX-GETTING STARTED WITH FLEX User Manual Page 18