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Agenda

Adobe Flex 3 Jumpstart Training

Introducing Flex

• Building our first Flex project
• The user interface and panels
• Design and source views
• Development and debugging perspectives

Developing in Flex

• Working with components
  • Building a core page UI container
  • Applying styles using CSS
  • Creating a top banner component using the design view
  • Planning components and inheritance
  • Using components to build pages of a microsite
• Building navigation
  • Introducing the viewstack
  • Creating a custom button bar
  • Utilising the custom component to provide viewstack navigation

Working with data

• Building a data model
  • Introducing The HTTPService
  • Setting the url and handling the result
  • Introducing fault handlers
  • Presenting the data to the application
  • Creating component methods to request the data
• Using the data model
  • Application events and triggering the data request
  • Passing data to components
  • Rendering data in a datagrid and customising the layout
  • Presenting data graphically using the charting components

Collecting data from the client

• Using the design view
  • Using the design view to build a form
  • Introducing the ui components
• Adding component methods to enhance form usability
• Submitting the data
  • Using events to send messages to other components
  • Creating a valueObject class to manage data
  • Creating a custom event class
  • Event bubbling
  • Applying a listener in the application

Submitting data to a WebService

• Extending the data model to include a WebService connector
• Operations and request parameters
• Tracking the result event and informing the user
  • Operation specific result handlers
  • Adding functionality to our custom event class
  • Dispatching events to signal completion