If you ever wanted to make a complex application with Flex you always asked yourself: Is the swf to big? How can I reduce it’s size?
Here are some small tips that do not relate to flex only, and one specific to flex:
One of the first questions any beginner in OOP and Flex will ask is: What do those public/protected stuff really mean?
Well here is a short table to describe them.
These days I started to study about MVC (Model-View-Controller) implementation for Flex. Although I used a lot MVC and MVC Frameworks in other language (PHP 4 & 5) the Cairngorm MVC Framework is a bit more complex.
For a better understanding I found the following interactive diagram where you can view which part of the code [...]
Luke Bayes and Ali Mills of PatternPark presented 9 Flex Frameworks for the Silicon Valley Flex Users Group (SilvaFUG) at Adobe’s offices in San Francisco.
Those frameworks are: Cairngorm, PureMVC, ARP, MVCS, Flest, Model-Glue: Flex, ServerBox Foundry, Guasax, and Slide.
The final conclusion was that PureMVC by Cliff Hall beats out the alternatives. We prefer PureMVC [...]
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional ActionScript 3 Essentials Course, available on Total Training web site as online study or on DVD, it’s created for developers that have beginner or intermediate programming skills.
Highlights
Review the Panel basics in ActionScript 3 and see how to set up the ActionScript preferences using the Reference Library and [...]
Adobe Developer Library is a co-publishing partnership between O’Reilly Media and Adobe Systems, Inc.
Here you can buy best titles on flex development, it’s the best place to start if you need a book in order to learn about RIA (rich internet application) ,what Flex can do and how to do it.
So go directly to the [...]
Some times you may pass over the following problem: the data doesn’t loads although the flex application is showing busy cursor. It remains in the loading process but it doesn’t finish. One of the following thing happens:
As you can see in the image above the SWF is not accessing the same domain it come from [...]
A bunch of examples for Adobe Flex and ActionScript.It’s a good starting point if you need help on any problem. There are examples with sources (mxml files) and a working swf.
I thing this is a really useful tool for everyone how it’s thinking to start using Flex.
So visit Peter deHaan’s blog at [...]
This is the first release of Flex Builder to support Desktop Linux. This version is based on several features from Flex Builder 3 (codenamed “Moxie”). It includes project creation, code coloring, code hints, compilation, the Ajax Bridge, Find All References, and debugging. Not all Flex Builder 3 features are supported, so be sure to check [...]
This near-feature-complete Flex Builder 3 beta 2 release will provide you with an opportunity to explore powerful new features, communicate early feedback, and test existing Flex applications with the latest Flex 3 framework.
FAQ
What did Adobe announce regarding Flex?
On October 1, 2007 Adobe announced the public availability of Flex 3 beta 2. This is the second [...]