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Figure 2-13. The eBay Desktop application

From

here, you can browse what is available for sale, bid on

items, watch your auctions, and so on. And it even maintains

the native look and feel of the operating system.

What Will You Do?

The chapters that follow will show you the parts and pieces

that were used to create all of these applications. But it’s up to

you to find the inspiration and creativity to take your applica-

tions to the next level. Thankfully, with Flex you will have all

the tools you need to take you there.

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Getting Started with Flex 1
Contents 7
Table of Contents 9
Who Should Read This Book 11
How This Book Is Organized 12
Conventions Used in This Book 13
How to Contact Us 13
About the Author 14
Preface 15
Installing Flex Builder 3 17
Having Some Image Fun 18
Having Some Image Fun 19
Having Some Image Fun 21
Flex in Action 23
8 24
Online Applications 25
Multimedia 27
Plug-ins and Widgets 28
Plug-ins and Widgets 29
Dashboards 31
Desktop Applications 32
Desktop Applications 33
What Will You Do? 34
Flex 101: Step by Step 35
A Flickr Viewer 36
A Flickr Viewer 37
/2006/mxml" 38
A Flickr Viewer 39
A Flickr Viewer 41
A Flickr Viewer 43
A Flickr Viewer 45
Example 3-15. Adding the VBox 46
A Flickr Viewer 47
A Flickr Viewer 49
A Flickr Viewer 51
Flex Controls and Layout 53
The Box Class 55
Figure 4-2. A VBox layout 56
Figure 4-3. An HBox layout 57
Example 4-6. Photo.mxml 59
The Form Container 60
The Form Container 61
Combined Layouts 62
Combined Layouts 63
The Panel Container 64
The Panel Container 65
Controls 66
Data Grids 67
DataGrid un 68
AdvancedDataGrid in action 68
In-Place Editing 69
Grid and set it to true 70
Tabs and Accordions 71
Figure 4-14. The tab control 72
Example 4-15. Accord.mxml 72
Tabs and Accordions 73
Example 4-16. Menu.mxml 74
Menus 75
Divider Boxes 76
CSS 77
Example 4-19. CSS.mxml 78
Skinning 79
Figure 4-20 shows the result 80
Filters and Effects 81
Example 4-22. Effect.mxml 82
Working with the Server 83
Example 5-1. Form.mxml 85
Using the HTTPService Tag 86
The Server Code in ColdFusion 91
Example 5-7 92
Going on from Here 93
More Flex Applications 95
A Runner’s Calculator 97
A Simple Image Viewer 99
A Simple Image Viewer 101
Drag-and-Drop 102
Drag-and-Drop 103
States and Transitions 104
States and Transitions 105
Example 6-8. States2.mxml 106
Example 6-9. FlexiBox2.mxml 106
States and Transitions 107
Figure 6-8. The open state 108
A Simple Video Viewer 109
Example 6-10. Movies.mxml 110
Creating Better Movies 111
Creating Better Movies 113
Creating Better Movies 115
Advanced Flex Controls 117
ILOG Elixir 119
Advanced Flash Components 120
The FlexLib Project 121
Distortion Effects 121
SpringGraph 122
SpringGraph 123
Flex for Widgets 125
Slide Show Widget 127
Slide Show Widget 129
Chat Widget 130
Chat Widget 131
Chat Widget 133
Flex on AIR 135
120 136
122 138
Resources for Flex Developers 139
The Flex Cookbook 140
Community Resources 141
VideoDisplay component, 95 147
VideoDisplay control, 94 147
YourMinis portal, 13 147
Index 147

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