Bestpractices. Building an Adobe Air application with Flex - NETTUTS. Developer Center : Flex quick start guide for PHP developers. Note: This article was written for Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3. For information on how to develop Flex applications with Flash Builder 4.5 and PHP, please refer to this article. As a web developer you may be wondering, "How do I start using Flex? " Adobe Flex is a very powerful set of tools but "...with great power comes great responsibility. " This article introduces you to Flex through basic examples and comparisons with HTML and PHP that you are already familiar with. Running the Flex/PHP code examples The sample files contain a Flex Builder 3 archive project that includes all of the examples discussed in this article. Open the project "src" directory to see the MXML files. Flex Builder 3 automatically compiles the MXML code into a SWF file every time you save the file or the first time you choose "Run Application" from the Flex Builder menu.
To specify the default application, right-click a file name and select the option to "Set as Default Application" from the context menu. <? <? Open Source Flex Development Frameworks Show that Platform is Ga. Adobe Flex and the technologies surrounding it are becoming mainstream in the RIA space. Even though the Flex community is still much smaller than those of Java or Microsoft platform, it's growing steadily with significant contributions from dedicated Flex RIA developers. This has resulted in the creation of a number of open source developer frameworks: Cairngorm ( download ) Cairngorm is the oldest and the most mature Flex framework. It's currently owned and opensourced by Adobe and is used extensively by Adobe's RIA consulting services. Cairngorm is considered a enterprise RIA development framework. The nature of Cairngorm also determines that it may not suite a small or quick prototype application.
The Cairngorm microarchitecture is intended as a framework for Enterprise RIA developers. PureMVC ( download ) This is actually an ActionScript 3 framework. Model-Glue: Flex ( download ) Model-Glue:Flex is another simple MVC based Flex framework. Foundry ( download ) ARP ( download ) Flex 3 - Adobe Flex 3 Help. Build a Web 2.0 Voting Widget with Flex: Part II [Flash Tutorial. Building practical Flash widgets, like ones that record users votes and display the results, is easy in Flex. In my previous article I demonstrated how to set up Flex Builder and create vote tally widgets. In this second article, I’ll show you how we can upgrade that widget to not only read votes, but post them as well.
And I’ll demonstrate how to configure Flex projects to build lightweight Flash applications, which are perfect for deployment as widgets. Download the code archive for this article if you’d like to play along at home. Pay attention! Once again, there will be a quiz at the end of the article. The first 100 people to complete the quiz will receive a copy of my book, Getting Started With Flex 3, for FREE, delivered to your door.
Building the Voting Service Upgrading the widget from one that reads vote tallies to one that can post votes means upgrading the server backend. This is the MySQL code we use to create the tables and to preload it with a question: Not bad! Elixir. A comprehensive set of advanced Flex visualization displays IBM LOG Elixir Enterprise DemoData Analysis Dashboard Download the trial IBM® ILOG® Elixir® Enterprise provides a full spectrum of advanced graphical displays on Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR platforms for the most demanding line-of-business applications. Developers can easily take advantage of the many Flex visualization displays to create applications that are functionally sound and visually appealing using customizable graphical components.
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Simple Flex Drag and Drop. Today I am going to run through a smallish tutorial on creating and using drag and drop in Flex using the DragManager class, which is a utility provided to make drag and drop easy. I should also mention, right off the bat, that some things like lists already have various drag and drop features built in. I however will be showing an example that is useful for any custom drag jobs you might need to do. The application below shows the functionality that I will be building today. It is a very simple demo that has a few games up at the top that can be added to your shopping cart by dragging them down into the basket area. Like most Flex tutorials I am going to quickly take a glance at the user interface which includes a couple canvases, labels, and a datagrid. One of the first things you might notice in the above code is the references to the icons as the source for the images.
[Bindable]private var cartContents:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(); Source Files: SOTC-FlexDragDrop.zip.