Dedication

For Caroline and Evan

Brief Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Advance Praise for Hello! Flex 4

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About Hello! books

Chapter 1. Getting started

Chapter 2. ActionScript 3, XML, and E4X

Chapter 3. Hello Spark: primitives, components, FXG and MXML graphics, and even video

Chapter 4. Spark containers, view states, effects, and styling

Chapter 5. Halo Flex 4: Using DataGrid, Navigator Containers, and Popups

Chapter 6. Building user-friendly forms using Flex formatters and validators

Chapter 7. Cairngorm in Action: SocialStalkr (Twitter + Yahoo! Maps)

Index

List of Examples

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Advance Praise for Hello! Flex 4

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About Hello! books

Chapter 1. Getting started

Why Flex 4?

Flex 4 overview

Flex vs. Ajax? Flex and Ajax?

Getting Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4

Beginning the workshop

Session 1. Hello! Flex

Key Points

Session 2. Dispatching and listening for events

Key points

Session 3. The Bindable annotation and data binding

Key points

Session 4. Flex application structure overview

Key points

Session 5. Spark, Halo, and Flex 4 namespaces

Key points

What’s next?

Chapter 2. ActionScript 3, XML, and E4X

Session 6. Variables, functions, types, and scope

Key points

Session 7. Objects, Arrays, Collections, and Looping