Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010

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Horizontal percentage wise positioning in Canvas

override protected function updateDisplayList( unscaledWidth:Number, unscaledHeight:Number ):void {

var hGap:int = ( width – ( numChildren * getChildAt( i ).width + 10 ) ) / ( numChildren – 1 );

for( var i:int = 1; i < numChildren; i++ ){

getChildAt( i ).x = getChildAt( i – 1 ).x + getChildAt( i – 1 ).width + hGap;

}

super.updateDisplayList( unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight );

}

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An Introduction to Rich Internet Applications

http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2010/01/24/an-introduction-to-rich-internet-applications/

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First Steps in Flex Screencasts By JAMES WARD

http://www.jamesward.com/2010/01/24/first-steps-in-flex-screencasts/

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Flex 4 Font embedding for MX componentes

@font-face {

font-family: “scFont”;

src: url(“assets/fonts/mriam.ttf”);

embedAsCff: true;

}

mx|Alert, mx|Button, mx|Form,mx|FormItem, mx|FormItemLabel{

font-family: scFont;

textFieldClass: ClassReference(“mx.core.UIFTETextField”);

}

mx|DateField {

font-family: Tahoma;

textInputClass: ClassReference(“mx.controls.MXFTETextInput”);

textFieldClass: ClassReference(“mx.core.UIFTETextField”);

}

mx|Label {

textFieldClass: ClassReference(“mx.core.UIFTETextField”);

}

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Custom easing explorer

http://www.madeinflex.com/img/entries/2007/05/customeasingexplorer.html

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Enable Smoothing on Images for scaling

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/flex_user_experience/index.html

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Flex Component Explorere for beginner

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

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adobe cs4 launch

http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1556v1715

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Flex in a Week – from adobe Flex Developer Center

Learn Flex in one week by going through this video training course. To maximize your learning, we recommend that you view the videos and complete the exercises in the order that they are listed. If you run into problems and have questions, you can ask a question on the Flex in a Week forum.

Note: Before starting the training, please ensure that you have installed Flex Builder. You can either use the free trial version or buy Flex Builder to go through the training.

Day 1: Flex basics

• Video: Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and AIR (5:30)
• Video: Introducing Flex Builder (7:22)
• Video: Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project (7:04)
• Video: Using pre-built Flex controls (4:34)
• Video: Understanding MXML (4:07)
• Exercise: Creating a project and laying out controls (PDF, 827k)
• (Download Solution, ZIP, 13K)
• Video: Binding data between controls (5:48)
• Video: Handling user events (6:22)
• Video: Introducing the event object (10:40)
• Video: Adding EventListeners with ActionScript (5:21)
• Exercise: Binding data and handling a user event (PDF, 367k)
• (Download Starter, ZIP, 13K; Solution, ZIP, 13K)
• Video: Retrieving data via HTTPService (8:26)
• Exercise: Populating a control from an HTTPService request (PDF, 512k)
  (Download assets, ZIP, 17K; Starter, ZIP, 13K; Solution, ZIP, 31K) 

Day 2: Component development

• Video: Displaying data in the DataGrid (6:35)
• Video: Working with containers (12:12)
• Exercise: Working with containers (PDF, 139k)
• (Download Starter, ZIP, 31K; Solution, ZIP, 31K)
• Video: Creating custom MXML components (8:42)
• Exercise: Creating custom MXML components (PDF, 225k)
• (Download Starter, ZIP, 31K; Solution, ZIP, 32K)
• Video: Implementing value object classes (13:46)
• Video: Creating custom events (5:59)
• Video: Creating custom event classes (23:06)
• Exercise: Creating custom events and dispatching Data (PDF, 332k)
• (Download Starter, ZIP, 32K; Solution, ZIP, 33K)
• Video: Customizing item renderers (6:42)
• Exercise: Creating an item renderer (PDF, 123k)
• (Download Starter, ZIP, 33K; Solution, ZIP, 33K)
• Video: Exploring Flex Builder tips (5:18)

Day 3: Putting it all together 

Video: Validating data (7:15)

Exercise: Validating form data (PDF, 95k)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 33K; Solution, ZIP, 34K)

Video: Requesting and sending data with RemoteObject (20:52)

Exercise: Using RemoteObject to send data to the server (PDF, 496k)

(Download Server, ZIP 22K; Starter, ZIP, 34K; Solution, ZIP, 35K)

Video: Formatting data (6:09)

Video: Dragging data between List components (5:20)

Exercise: Implementing drag and drop between components (PDF, 626k)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 35K; Solution, ZIP, 35K)

Video: Filtering XML with E4X (12:04)

Exercise: Using XML with E4X (PDF, 53k)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 35K; Solution, ZIP, 36K)

Video: Deploying Flex and AIR applications (11:57)

Exercise: Deploying a Flex application (PDF, 499k)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 36K; Solution, ZIP, 36K)

Exercise: Creating and Deploying an AIR Application (PDF, 1.2M)

(Download Starter, ZIP, 36K; Solution, ZIP, 815K)

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