Chapter 21. Working with effects
This chapter covers
- Defining effects
- Using effects
- Exploring Flex effects
- Customizing effects
Effects set Flex applications apart. Because Flex is based on the Flash platform, it draws on a long history of delivering engaging animated UIs, which gives it a powerful base on which to create effects.
In the last chapter we showed you how to customize the user experience through CSS, skinning, and a little bit on effects. In this chapter, we’ll take you further into effects starting by explaining what they are and how to use them, then describing the types of out-of-the-box effects, and finishing off with customization and font integration. Having conquered some heavy topics up to this point in the book, we’re going to keep this chapter light.