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[...]... Builder 2 Flex Builder 2 is the official Adobe IDE for building and debugging Flex applications Built on the popular Eclipse IDE, Flex Builder has built-in tools for writing, debugging, and building applications using Flex technologies such as MXML and ActionScript The Flex framework ships as part of Flex Builder However, Flex Builder and the Flex framework are not synonymous You do not have to use Flex. .. Foreword | xix Preface 2 This book is a long time in the making We first started talking about this book several years ago, when Flex 1. 0 first hit the market We recognized that Flex was something important, yet we knew the product hadn’t matured enough at that point However, we shortly thereafter heard the whispers of Flex 2, a new and improved Flex After working with Flex 2, we were certain that... decision we made was to provide the Flex Framework SDK, which includes the Flex framework with complete source, compilers, and other utilities, for free We did this to encourage adoption and enable it to be freely used with nonAdobe tools You can download it by going to the official Flex web site, http://www flex. org Flex Builder 2 Flex Builder 2 is an IDE that makes using the Flex framework more productive... Flash Player 9 This means Flex 2 applications can utilize all the functionality of Flash Player, such as animation, audio, video, request/response network data communication, real-time data communication, and much more Furthermore, the Flex 2 framework vastly simplifies the creation of Flash Platform applications over previous options (Flash authoring, Flex 1. 5, etc.) Flex 2 is huge Although the learning... really support Flex, they couldn’t have been more wrong It was amazing to experience how excited Adobe employees were about Flex and all of the technology being created by the former Macromedia teams And over the past year since the acquisition, this has been confirmed by what we’ve been able to accomplish January 4, 20 07, just six months after shipping Flex 2, we released Flex 2. 0 .1 Although it sounds... to create Flex 2 So, what is it? The core of Flex 2 is the Flex framework, a library of ActionScript objects that provide a great foundation for building rich Internet applications that run on Flash It is a developer-centric framework that provides a strong architecture and uses design patterns that will be familiar to developers coming from a NET, Java, or web development background Flex 2 has a rich...Foreword 1 Whenever I talk to people about Flex 2, the most common questions they ask are the basic ones: what is it, who is it for, and why did we build it? It turns out that although these questions are basic, they really get to the heart of what Flex 2 is all about Flex 2 is a new technology for building rich web applications and experiences... Running on a new virtual machine using new, streamlined metaphors, Flex 2 was light years ahead of anything we’d been working with to develop rich Internet applications It was at that point that we got serious about writing this book You’ll learn shortly (starting in Chapter 1) what Flex 2 is and what you can do with it However, briefly, Flex 2 is a framework and a set of tools (e.g., compilers) for building... can really understand what’s going on What I really like about Programming Flex 2 is that not only does it take you through the breadth of what Flex provides, but it also takes you deep into how it works It explains the high-level concepts as well as points out the finer details of what’s really happening I also like that Programming Flex 2 takes a practical approach, explaining common techniques of... example: Programming Flex 2, by Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott Copyright 20 07 O’Reilly Media, Inc., 978-0-596- 526 89-4.” If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given above, feel free to contact us at permissions@oreilly.com Comments and Questions Please address comments and questions concerning this book to the publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc Preface | xxv 10 05 Gravenstein . . . 12 1 Understanding UI Components 12 2 Buttons 12 8 Value Selectors 12 9 Text Components 13 0 List-Based Controls 13 1 Pop-Up Controls 14 0 Table of Contents | vii Navigators 14 3 Control Bars 14 7 Summary. . 21 1 Creating States 21 1 Applying States 21 2 Defining States Based on Existing States 21 3 Adding and Removing Components 21 4 Setting Properties 21 6 Setting Styles 21 7 Setting Event Handlers 21 8 Using ActionScript. Traditional (HTML) and Flex Web Applications 9 Understanding How Flex Applications Work 10 Understanding Flex and Flash Authoring 11 Understanding Flex 1. 5 and Flex 2 12 Summary 12 2. Building Applications