Adobe Flex 3 - Programming the Visual Experience

Adobe Flex 3 - Programming the Visual Experience

Flex 3:

Modifying the default look-and-feel of Flex applications
Introducing Mastery Learning
Understanding the Course Format
Reviewing the course prerequisites
Reviewing the course outline
Setting up the application files
Enhancing the application with imagery and layering
Adding background colors and imagery to the application
Adding an application background image
Adding imagery to the Natural Experiences application
Layering content using absolute layout
Creating a reusable embedded image
Creating instances of an embedded image class
Using bindable variables for imagery
Creating simple popup functionality
Enhancing the application with fonts, filters and blends
Understanding the limitations of device fonts
Learning the limitations of device fonts
Embedding fonts with direct calls to the font files in the file system
Embedding fonts using FlashTypeExploring advanced FlashType settingsExploring filters
Exploring filter properties
Applying blends
Modifying the look-and-feel of Flex components graphically
Exploring 9-slice scalingModifying the look-and-feel of Flex components using MXML styles
Modifying the Natural Experiences
Modifying graphical skins using Adobe Flash templates
Extending Flex Components
Learning display object basics
Exploring the non-content children
Introducing the Display
Object class and its subclasses
Extending Flex components
Creating an extended component
Implementing the create
Children method
Implementing the update
Display List method
Calling the update
DisplayList method of the super class
Improving custom component reusability with stylesheets
Drawing shapes and programmatically modifying the look-and-feel of Flex components
Understanding the relationship between display list objects and the Graphics class
Calling the clear method
Exploring the clear() method
Drawing lines
Using the scale
Mode argument of the lineStyle() method
Ordering the lineStyle() method arguments
Using line methods to draw a star
Creating a visual element as an ActionScript class
Creating shapesDefi ning fill methods
Implementing a Button
Implementing a programmatic skin
Animating components and state changes
Reviewing Behaviors
Defining behavior triggers
Applying behaviors
Creating a fly-in popup component
Reviewing View States and Transitions
Using the Current State
Change change event
Understanding the order of events and transitions
Setting a custom component’s size for state changes
Handling child components that become invisible in transitions
Passing data between components to affect layout and data display
Creating custom component properties
Passing and displaying XML photo data in the gallery
Reviewing the Repeater component
Using dynamic data in the Repeater
Using current
Item with a complex data structure
Using Repeater data in ActionScript
Calculating custom component size
Creating a more flexible tile display
Creating mouse-aware application features
Detecting the mouse position
Moving the popup to the mouse position
Detecting the stage dimensions
Creating animation using the Timer class
Understanding easing
Implementing Drag and Drop Functionality
Understanding the DragManager
Enable drag and drop functionality in a drag enabled component
Specifying the data to display in a List control
Enabling dragging on non-list-based controls
Controlling dropping with formats
Handling data in drag and drop operations
Viewing data in the DragSource