Flex 3 Component Solutions: Build Amazing Interfaces with Flex Components - Softcover

Herrington, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1430215984 ISBN 13: 9781430215981

Publisher: Apress, 2008

Synopsis

Flex has revolutionized the development of Rich Internet Applications, giving developers the framework necessary to easily create ever more powerful applications. Components form an essential part of this framework, and once you understand how to fully use them, your productivity and creativity will be taken to a whole new level. Flex 3 Component Solutions will show just what you can achieve with components and exactly how to achieve it. You'll see just how simple it is to use components to create amazing interfaces for your applications be they media players, data visualizations, 3D graphics-the list is long. This book contains all you need to know to get the Finally, there'll be times when you'll want to or have no alternative but to create your own components. This book will show you how to do this for your own ends, or so you can contribute to the Flex component community by distributing them. Flex 3 Component Solutions is a tour de force of components, and all of these components are demonstrated using real-world Flex code that you can use as starting points for your own applications. Take what you learn for this book, and then go out and create your own amazing interfaces quickly and easily: reuse, repurpose, redesign, and do it all faster and with greater quality control than you ever thought possible.

About this title

About the Author

Jack Herrington is a software engineer with over 25 years of experience who has written numerous articles, including many on Flex and Rails. He was a member of the Flex Builder team at Macromedia. His first book, Code Generation In Action, used Ruby and was an inspiration to the author of Rails. His blog can be found at jackherrington.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1430215984
• ISBN 13: 9781430215981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 414