Flex 3 Cookbook(Adobe Developer Library)

The best way to show off a powerful new technology is to demonstrate real-world results with it, and that's exactly what Adobe and O'Reilly have done with Flex 3. Through it's Flex Cookbook website, Adobe invited users of the Flex 3 beta to post their own solutions for working with this technology, using O'Reilly's popular problem-solution-discussion format.Website monitors (and authors) Joshua Noble and Todd Anderson chose the most useful solutions for Flex 3 Cookbook. This highly practical book contains more than 200 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites,

including several contributed by Noble, Anderson, and other Flex experts. You'll find everything from Flex basics and working with menus and controls, to methods for compiling, deploying, and configuring Flex applications. Each recipe features a discussion of how and why it works, and many of them offer sample code that you can put to use immediately.

Chapter 1. Flex and ActionScript Basics
Chapter 2. Menus and Controls
Chapter 3. Containers
Chapter 4. Text
Chapter 5. Lists, Tiles, and Trees
Chapter 6. DataGrid and Advanced DataGrid
Recipe 7.1. Create Your Own Renderers
Chapter 8. Images, Bitmaps, Videos, Sounds
Chapter 9. Skinning and Styling
Chapter 11. States
Chapter 12. Effects
Chapter 13. Collections
Chapter 14. Data Binding
Chapter 15. Validation, Formatting, and Regular Expressions
Chapter 16. Charting
Chapter 17. SharedObjects
Chapter 18. Working with Services and Server-Side Communication
Chapter 19. XML
Chapter 20. Browser Communication
Chapter 21. Development Strategies
Chapter 22. Modules and Runtime Shared Libraries
Chapter 23. The Adobe Integrated Runtime API
Chapter 24. Unit Testing with FlexUnit
Chapter 25. Compiling and Debugging
Chapter 26. Configuration, Internationalization, and Printing