I recently noticed that flex.org is changed and having more structured site. Flex.org is using drupal for managing content posted on website.
I can’t talk more Experience new flex.org
I was very busy last few days wrapping up many things so unable to post.
I can say only 1 thing about 360|Flex Atlanta “It Rocks”.
I have attended many interesting sessions
I have delivered session on “Creating cool frontend Apps: using Flex and JavaScript” which went very well. I have demoed my experimental application “svWord” online word processor using Flex and Javascript (using Zoho Api). svWord will be online soon…
Overall it was great learning experience.
This article is all about presenting the visual component hierarchy this is basic thing in flex which shows how different properties, method and evens added to the component at various levels and this give knowledge to the lower level of abstraction.
Flex Visual component are created with the class hierarchy of several ActionScript class to provide more flexibility and add more features at the different level of hierarchy.
Following is a visual representation of class hierarchy of Flex Visual Components:
Object: Object is a Top/Root Level class of AactionScript class hierarchy. | More Info…
EventDispatcher: EventDispatcher class extends object class. EvenDispacher class allows any object on the display list to be an event target. | More Info
DisplayObject: Display Object class extends object and this is the base class for all objects which can be added in the DisplayList. Display object class allows some properties (x, y, width, height )for components/Objects like MovieClip, Button, TextField etc. | More Info
InteractiveObject: InteractiveObject extends DisplayObject and it is an abstract base class for all DisplayObject with which user can interact. InteractiveObject provides some common properties like doubleClickEnabled, focusRect, tabIndex etc… and Events like all mouse Events, Keyboard Events. | More Info
DisplayObjectContainer: DisplayObjectContainer extends InteractiveObject class and it is a base shell for all containers which adds display objects in the container shell. . DisplayObjectContainer provides some common properties like numChildren, tabChildren etc and methods like addChild(), removeChilld() method related to the child display object management. .. | More Info
FlexSprite: FlexSprite is a subclass of the Player’s Sprite class and the superclass of UIComponent. It overrides the toString() method to return a string indicating the location of the object within the hierarchy of DisplayObjects in the application. The Sprite class is a basic display list building block: a display list node that can display graphics and can also contain children. | More Info
UIComponent: UIComponent extends Sprite and it is a base class for all Interactive and non Interactive component. The UIComponent class is not used as an MXML tag, but is used as a base class for other classes. | More Info
All Visual Components like VBox, HBox, Canvas, Button etc. extends UIComponent.
Hope this article will help you. Any Comments?
I am glad to announce that I will be speaking at 360Flex on “Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript.
My topic will be covering following points and much more.
This session will bring up light on many good technique and challenges while working with flex and JavaScript.
See you @ 360Flex Atlanta.
Register for 360Flex Atlanta / Europe
Moxie Zhang has posted a nice article in infoq about Open Source Flex development frame works. In his post Moxie has listed 10 Open source frameworks for Flex Development.
Following are top Open Source Frameworks:
I am glad to announce that I will be speaking at 360Flex on “Creating cool front-end Apps using Flex and JavaScript”
My topic will be covering following points and much more.
This session will bring up light on many good technique and challenges while working with flex and JavaScript.
See you @ 360Flex Atlanta.
Register for 360Flex Atlanta / Europe
Kathleen Richards has posted notes of interview with James Gosling (Creator of the java programming language).
Here are some Q&A Discussed with James Gosling which are specifically for Adobe Flash / Flex / AIR.
How will JavaFX be positioned with regard to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe AIR?
[James] : It certainly competes with both of those. I think we have a much broader and more capable API set. We’ve got a much stronger security story and cross-platform story and a really strong performance story. And I think our deliverable will be really nice.
As organizations think about building rich Internet applications or rich client applications, when should developers look at JavaFX over competing technologies?
[James] :Â “If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.” We’ve had a platform for years that can build rich Internet applications that are extremely sophisticated.
Our issue hasn’t really been, can you build interesting rich Internet applications? But that it’s difficult. And most of our efforts really are around making a lot of it easier.
In RIA technology space Flash Platform and AJAX are leader and Microsoft (Silverlight) and SUN (JavaFX) are just coming in action.
I am sure that Flash/Flex Platform Community will have some reaction on this.
You can read full article here…
Adobe’s James Ward shared Flex Misconceptions with infoQ.com at QCon. James answered many contradictory questions about flex misconceptions.
At the end there are many comments and concern posted by users have been answered by James.
Have a look at interesting post here…
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/top-10-flex-misconceptions
subclipse is an open source SVN plug-in for Flex Builder (eclipse).
Find out more details here…
How to install subclipse in Flex Builder (eclipse).
Yahoo! has released new flex skin. This is very basic but sleek skin.
You can view flex skin here or Download from here
Learn how to build your own skin for flex.
Related Links: Yahoo! and Flex: Feel Good In Your Own Skin
