Getting Started with Flex 2 Introducing Flex About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Flex -- Flex 2.01 About Flex -- Flex 2.01 Benefits of using Flex -- Flex 2.01 Flex deployment models -- Flex 2.01 Summary of Flex application features -- Flex 2.01 Where to next -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Flex Builder 2 -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder perspectives -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective -- Flex 2.01 Designing Flex applications in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Debugging perspective -- Flex 2.01 Compiling your applications -- Flex 2.01 Running and debugging your applications -- Flex 2.01 More information about Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Flex Basics Building a Flex Application -- Flex 2.01 Developing applications -- Flex 2.01 Application model -- Flex 2.01 How Flex fits the MVC models -- Flex 2.01 Working with a web server -- Flex 2.01 Typical application development steps -- Flex 2.01 Deploying applications -- Flex 2.01 The Flex programming model -- Flex 2.01 Relationship of the Flex class hierarchy to MXML and ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Laying out your application -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder to lay out your application -- Flex 2.01 Defining a user interface in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Adding ActionScript to a Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Controlling application appearance -- Flex 2.01 Working with data services -- Flex 2.01 Separating your data model from your view -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex coding process -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from HTML -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from an HTML templating environment -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from Flash Professional -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex development tools -- Flex 2.01 Building a Flex Data Services Application -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex Message Service -- Flex 2.01 About RPC services -- Flex 2.01 About the development environment -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Charting Components -- Flex 2.01 About charting -- Flex 2.01 Defining chart data -- Flex 2.01 Chart types -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML -- Flex 2.01 Writing a simple application -- Flex 2.01 The relationship of MXML tags to ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder with MXML -- Flex 2.01 How MXML relates to standards -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript in Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript blocks in MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Using special characters in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Referring to Flex components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Including ActionScript code versus importing ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Lessons Create Your First Application -- Flex 2.01 Create the Lessons project -- Flex 2.01 Learn about compiling in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Create and run an application -- Flex 2.01 Retrieve and Display Data -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Review your access to remote data sources -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position the blog reader controls -- Flex 2.01 Insert a HTTPService component -- Flex 2.01 Populate a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Display a selected item -- Flex 2.01 Create a dynamic link -- Flex 2.01 Create a Constraint-based Layout -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Learn about constraint-based layouts in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position the components -- Flex 2.01 Define the layout constraints -- Flex 2.01 Use List-based Form Controls -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position controls -- Flex 2.01 Populate the list -- Flex 2.01 Associate values with list items -- Flex 2.01 Use an Event Listener -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a simple user interface -- Flex 2.01 Write an event listener -- Flex 2.01 Associate the listener with an event with MXML -- Flex 2.01 Associate the listener with an event with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Use Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a behavior -- Flex 2.01 Invoke an effect from a different component -- Flex 2.01 Create a composite effect -- Flex 2.01 Use View States and Transitions -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Design the base state -- Flex 2.01 Design a view state -- Flex 2.01 Define how users switch view states -- Flex 2.01 Create a transition -- Flex 2.01 Create a Custom Component -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a test file for the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Create the custom component file -- Flex 2.01 Design the layout of the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Define an event listener for the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Use the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Use the Code Editor -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file to demonstrate code editing features -- Flex 2.01 Use Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Show line numbers -- Flex 2.01 Add a code comment -- Flex 2.01 Use the Outline view -- Flex 2.01 Show language reference Help -- Flex 2.01 Open a code definition -- Flex 2.01 Debug an Application -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Preview the application in design view -- Flex 2.01 Add a calculation function -- Flex 2.01 Run and test the application -- Flex 2.01 Set a breakpoint -- Flex 2.01 Debug the sample application -- Flex 2.01 Watch a variable -- Flex 2.01 Correct the coding error -- Flex 2.01 Use Web Services -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Review your access to remote data sources -- Flex 2.01 Review the API documentation -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position controls -- Flex 2.01 Insert a WebService component -- Flex 2.01 Populate the DataGrid component -- Flex 2.01 Create a dynamic link -- Flex 2.01 Use the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 Before you begin -- Flex 2.01 Build a distributed application with the ActionScript object adapter -- Flex 2.01 Configure a Data Management Service destination -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Create the user interface -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create variables -- Flex 2.01 Initialize the application -- Flex 2.01 Send notes -- Flex 2.01 Handle returned data -- Flex 2.01 Verify that your code is correct -- Flex 2.01 Run the completed notes application -- Flex 2.01 Build a distributed application with the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Install the contact application -- Flex 2.01 View the samples.contact.Contact class -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Create the user interface -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create variables -- Flex 2.01 Bind the ArrayCollection object to the DataGrid -- Flex 2.01 Fill the ArrayCollection object with data -- Flex 2.01 Verify that your code is correct -- Flex 2.01 Run the completed contact application -- Flex 2.01 View the server-side Data Management Service destination -- Flex 2.01 View the assembler class -- Flex 2.01 View the fill methods -- Flex 2.01 View the sync method -- Flex 2.01 Use ColdFusion Event Gateway Adapter -- Flex 2.01 Set up your development environment -- Flex 2.01 Create the Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create the ColdFusion application -- Flex 2.01 Test the application -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder 2 Getting Started with Flex Builder Introduction -- Flex 2.01 What you can do with Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder versions -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder configurations -- Flex 2.01 System requirements -- Flex 2.01 Activating Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Typographical conventions -- Flex 2.01 Learning Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 How to get started using Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Getting the most from the Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder help system -- Flex 2.01 Opening Help -- Flex 2.01 Using dynamic help -- Flex 2.01 Using context-sensitive help -- Flex 2.01 Searching Help -- Flex 2.01 Using Help bookmarks -- Flex 2.01 Changing the Help viewer font size -- Flex 2.01 Setting Help preferences -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Start page -- Flex 2.01 Printing the Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Discussing the Flex and Flex Builder documentation with LiveDocs -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder Workbench Basics -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder basics -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder editors -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder perspectives -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective in Design mode -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Debugging perspective -- Flex 2.01 Other useful workbench views -- Flex 2.01 Workbench menus, toolbars, and shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 The workbench toolbar -- Flex 2.01 The MXML editor toolbar -- Flex 2.01 Using keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Extending the Flex Builder workbench -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder Basics Working with Projects -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Flex Builder projects -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder project types -- Flex 2.01 Projects in the Navigator view -- Flex 2.01 About project resource types -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex projects -- Flex 2.01 Managing projects -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex project properties -- Flex 2.01 Importing projects -- Flex 2.01 Moving a project from one workspace to another -- Flex 2.01 Deleting projects -- Flex 2.01 Closing and opening projects -- Flex 2.01 Switching the main application file -- Flex 2.01 Managing project application files -- Flex 2.01 Managing project resources -- Flex 2.01 Creating folders and files in a project -- Flex 2.01 Deleting folders and files -- Flex 2.01 Importing resources into a project -- Flex 2.01 Exporting resources -- Flex 2.01 Moving resources between projects in a workspace -- Flex 2.01 Refreshing resources in the workspace -- Flex 2.01 Linking to resources outside the project workspace -- Flex 2.01 Adding resource folders to the project source path -- Flex 2.01 Adding project references -- Flex 2.01 Viewing resource properties -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ActionScript class -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ActionScript interface -- Flex 2.01 About library projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex component library files -- Flex 2.01 Using SWC files in your projects -- Flex 2.01 Navigating and Customizing the Flex Builder Workbench -- Flex 2.01 Working with perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Opening perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Switching between perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Setting the default perspective -- Flex 2.01 Opening perspectives in a new window -- Flex 2.01 Creating a customized perspective -- Flex 2.01 Deleting a customized perspective -- Flex 2.01 Resetting perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Working with editors and views -- Flex 2.01 Opening views -- Flex 2.01 Moving and docking views -- Flex 2.01 Rearranging tabbed views -- Flex 2.01 Switching between views -- Flex 2.01 Creating and working with fast views -- Flex 2.01 Filtering the Tasks and Problems views -- Flex 2.01 Creating working sets -- Flex 2.01 Opening files for editing -- Flex 2.01 Associating editors with file types -- Flex 2.01 Editing files outside the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Tiling editors -- Flex 2.01 Maximizing a view or editor -- Flex 2.01 Switching the workspace -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Rearranging the main toolbar -- Flex 2.01 Changing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Changing fonts and colors -- Flex 2.01 About changing fonts -- Flex 2.01 Changing fonts -- Flex 2.01 Changing colors -- Flex 2.01 Changing the placement of tabs -- Flex 2.01 Controlling single- and double-click behavior -- Flex 2.01 Searching in the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Searching for files -- Flex 2.01 Using the Search view -- Flex 2.01 Working in the editor's Source and Design modes -- Flex 2.01 Accessing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Setting workbench preferences -- Flex 2.01 Developing a Flex Application User Interface Building a Flex User Interface -- Flex 2.01 About the structure of Flex user interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Adding components -- Flex 2.01 Adding components visually -- Flex 2.01 Adding components by writing code -- Flex 2.01 Adding Flash components (SWC files) -- Flex 2.01 Working with components visually -- Flex 2.01 Using the MXML editor in Design mode -- Flex 2.01 Selecting multiple components in an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Positioning components -- Flex 2.01 Sizing components -- Flex 2.01 Using snapping to position components -- Flex 2.01 Aligning components -- Flex 2.01 Nudging components -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Applying CSS styles to components -- Flex 2.01 Refreshing Design mode to render properly -- Flex 2.01 Showing surrounding containers -- Flex 2.01 Inspecting the structure of your MXML -- Flex 2.01 Hiding container borders -- Flex 2.01 Copying components to other MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Deleting components -- Flex 2.01 Laying out your user interface -- Flex 2.01 About constraint-based layouts -- Flex 2.01 Inserting and positioning components in the layout -- Flex 2.01 Setting layout constraints for components -- Flex 2.01 Adding navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating layouts in navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Letting users select a view in a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Adding data provider controls -- Flex 2.01 Adding charting components -- Flex 2.01 Adding View States and Transitions -- Flex 2.01 About view states and transitions -- Flex 2.01 Creating a view state -- Flex 2.01 Creating a state based on an existing state -- Flex 2.01 Setting a non-base state as the starting state -- Flex 2.01 Setting the initial state of a component -- Flex 2.01 Switching states at run time -- Flex 2.01 Modifying the appearance of existing states -- Flex 2.01 Deleting a view state -- Flex 2.01 Creating a transition -- Flex 2.01 Adding Interactivity with Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About Flex behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Creating a behavior for a component -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About the uses of custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components visually -- Flex 2.01 Designing components visually -- Flex 2.01 Rapidly editing custom MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Distributing custom components -- Flex 2.01 Programming Flex Applications Code Editing in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Understanding code editing in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder content assistance -- Flex 2.01 About Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Using Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Getting help while writing code -- Flex 2.01 Navigating and organizing code -- Flex 2.01 Folding and unfolding code blocks -- Flex 2.01 Using the Outline view to navigate and inspect code -- Flex 2.01 Outline view in Class mode -- Flex 2.01 Outline view in MXML mode -- Flex 2.01 Using Quick Outline view in the editor -- Flex 2.01 Opening code definitions -- Flex 2.01 Browsing and opening types -- Flex 2.01 Showing line numbers -- Flex 2.01 Formatting code -- Flex 2.01 Organizing import statements -- Flex 2.01 Adding comment blocks -- Flex 2.01 Manually indenting code blocks -- Flex 2.01 Finding and replacing text in the editor -- Flex 2.01 About markers -- Flex 2.01 Navigating markers -- Flex 2.01 Adding tasks -- Flex 2.01 Completing and deleting tasks -- Flex 2.01 Adding and deleting bookmarks -- Flex 2.01 About syntax error checking -- Flex 2.01 Using the Problems view -- Flex 2.01 Code editing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Building Projects -- Flex 2.01 Understanding how projects are built -- Flex 2.01 Customizing project builds -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling automatic builds -- Flex 2.01 Setting a project's output folder -- Flex 2.01 Modifying a project's build path -- Flex 2.01 Advanced build options -- Flex 2.01 Building projects manually -- Flex 2.01 Saving project resources automatically -- Flex 2.01 Performing a clean build -- Flex 2.01 Changing the project build order -- Flex 2.01 Customizing builds with Apache Ant -- Flex 2.01 Publishing application source code -- Flex 2.01 Running and Debugging Applications -- Flex 2.01 Understanding running and debugging applications in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Running your applications -- Flex 2.01 Managing launch configurations -- Flex 2.01 Creating or editing a launch configuration -- Flex 2.01 Running the application SWF file in the stand-alone Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Changing the default web browser -- Flex 2.01 Debugging your applications -- Flex 2.01 Starting a debugging session -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing breakpoints -- Flex 2.01 Managing breakpoints in the Breakpoints view -- Flex 2.01 Managing the debugging session in the Debug view -- Flex 2.01 Using the Console view -- Flex 2.01 Managing variables in the Variables view -- Flex 2.01 Using the Expressions view -- Flex 2.01 Working with Data in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About working with data in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Managing Flash Player security -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder User Interface Reference -- Flex 2.01 Setting project properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project text encoding properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project compiler properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project application file properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex and ActionScript project build path properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex library project build path properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex server properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project builder properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project references -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder views -- Flex 2.01 Components view -- Flex 2.01 Custom category -- Flex 2.01 Controls category -- Flex 2.01 Layout category -- Flex 2.01 Navigators category -- Flex 2.01 Charts category -- Flex 2.01 Flex Properties view -- Flex 2.01 Navigator view -- Flex 2.01 Outline view -- Flex 2.01 States view -- Flex 2.01 New State dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Edit State Properties dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Creating project resources -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New ActionScript Class dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New ActionScript Interface dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New MXML Component dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Create Chart dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Setting editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting MXML editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting ActionScript editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting CSS editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting MXML Code Assist preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting ActionScript Code Assist preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting running and debugging preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting launch preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Run/Debug preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex debugging preferences -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 Developer's Guide Using Flex Programming Languages About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Developing Applications in MXML -- Flex 2.01 About MXML -- Flex 2.01 Writing a simple application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling MXML to SWF Files -- Flex 2.01 Developing applications -- Flex 2.01 Laying out a user interface using containers -- Flex 2.01 Adding user interface controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the id property with MXML tags -- Flex 2.01 Using XML namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML to trigger run-time code -- Flex 2.01 Binding data between components -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC services -- Flex 2.01 Storing data in a data model -- Flex 2.01 Validating data -- Flex 2.01 Formatting data -- Flex 2.01 Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) -- Flex 2.01 Using skins -- Flex 2.01 Using effects -- Flex 2.01 Defining custom MXML components -- Flex 2.01 MXML Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Basic MXML syntax -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript in Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Working with Flex components -- Flex 2.01 Comparing, including, and importing ActionScript code -- Flex 2.01 Including ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Importing classes and packages -- Flex 2.01 Techniques for separating ActionScript from MXML -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Performing object introspection -- Flex 2.01 Using Events -- Flex 2.01 About events -- Flex 2.01 About the Event flow -- Flex 2.01 About the Event class -- Flex 2.01 About the EventDispatcher class -- Flex 2.01 Using events -- Flex 2.01 Registering event handlers -- Flex 2.01 Defining event listeners inline -- Flex 2.01 Using the addEventListener() method -- Flex 2.01 Creating event handler classes -- Flex 2.01 Defining multiple listeners for a single event -- Flex 2.01 Registering a single listener with multiple components -- Flex 2.01 Passing additional parameters to listener functions -- Flex 2.01 Manually dispatching events -- Flex 2.01 Event propagation -- Flex 2.01 Event priorities -- Flex 2.01 Using event subclasses -- Flex 2.01 About keyboard events -- Flex 2.01 Handling keyboard events -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the keyCode and charCode properties -- Flex 2.01 Understanding KeyboardEvent precedence -- Flex 2.01 Handling keyboard-related MouseEvents -- Flex 2.01 Building User Interfaces for Flex Applications Using Flex Visual Components -- Flex 2.01 About visual components -- Flex 2.01 Class hierarchy for visual components -- Flex 2.01 Using the UIComponent class -- Flex 2.01 Commonly used UIComponent properties -- Flex 2.01 Using components in MXML and ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Configuring components: syntax summary -- Flex 2.01 Sizing visual components -- Flex 2.01 Handling events -- Flex 2.01 Using styles -- Flex 2.01 Using behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Applying skins -- Flex 2.01 Changing the appearance of a component at run time -- Flex 2.01 Extending components -- Flex 2.01 Using Data Providers and Collections -- Flex 2.01 About data providers and collections -- Flex 2.01 About collections -- Flex 2.01 Specifying data providers in MXML applications -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a simple data provider -- Flex 2.01 Using IList interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using ICollectionView interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using the IViewCursor interface -- Flex 2.01 Example: Updating an Array Using ICollectionView interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using events and update notifications -- Flex 2.01 Using collection change notifications -- Flex 2.01 Example: Modifying data in DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Using hierarchical data providers -- Flex 2.01 Data descriptors and hierarchical data provider structure -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom data descriptor -- Flex 2.01 Using an XML data provider -- Flex 2.01 Using remote data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using paged remote data providers. -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and Positioning Components -- Flex 2.01 About sizing and positioning -- Flex 2.01 Sizing components -- Flex 2.01 Determining and controlling component sizes -- Flex 2.01 Example: Determining an HBox container and child sizes -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex component sizing techniques -- Flex 2.01 Using percentage-based sizing -- Flex 2.01 Sizing containers and components toolbox -- Flex 2.01 Positioning and laying out controls -- Flex 2.01 Using absolute positioning -- Flex 2.01 Using constraint-based layout -- Flex 2.01 Using Controls -- Flex 2.01 About controls -- Flex 2.01 Working with controls -- Flex 2.01 Button control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Button control -- Flex 2.01 Skinning a Button control -- Flex 2.01 PopUpButton control -- Flex 2.01 ButtonBar and ToggleButtonBar controls -- Flex 2.01 LinkBar control -- Flex 2.01 TabBar control -- Flex 2.01 CheckBox control -- Flex 2.01 RadioButton control -- Flex 2.01 NumericStepper control -- Flex 2.01 DateChooser and DateField controls -- Flex 2.01 LinkButton control -- Flex 2.01 HSlider and VSlider controls -- Flex 2.01 SWFLoader control -- Flex 2.01 Image control -- Flex 2.01 Maintaining aspect ratio when sizing -- Flex 2.01 VideoDisplay control -- Flex 2.01 ColorPicker control -- Flex 2.01 Alert control -- Flex 2.01 ProgressBar control -- Flex 2.01 HRule and VRule controls -- Flex 2.01 ScrollBar control -- Flex 2.01 Using Text Controls -- Flex 2.01 About text controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the text property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying special characters in the text property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying special characters in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using the htmlText property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying HTML tags and text -- Flex 2.01 Specifying HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Escaping special characters in HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Using tags in HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Selecting and modifying text -- Flex 2.01 Modifying text -- Flex 2.01 Example: changing selected text in a RichTextEditor control -- Flex 2.01 Label control -- Flex 2.01 TextInput control -- Flex 2.01 Text control -- Flex 2.01 TextArea control -- Flex 2.01 RichTextEditor control -- Flex 2.01 Programming RichTextEditor subcontrols -- Flex 2.01 Using Menu-Based Controls -- Flex 2.01 About menu-based controls -- Flex 2.01 Defining menu structure and data -- Flex 2.01 Handling menu-based control events -- Flex 2.01 Menu control -- Flex 2.01 MenuBar control -- Flex 2.01 PopUpMenuButton control -- Flex 2.01 Using Data-Driven Controls -- Flex 2.01 List control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a List control -- Flex 2.01 Using a custom item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Alternating row colors in a List control -- Flex 2.01 List control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 HorizontalList control -- Flex 2.01 Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 TileList control -- Flex 2.01 ComboBox control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ComboBox control -- Flex 2.01 ComboBox control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Hiding and displaying columns -- Flex 2.01 Passing data to a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Handling events in a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Sorting data in DataGrid controls -- Flex 2.01 DataGrid control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 Tree control -- Flex 2.01 About Tree Controls -- Flex 2.01 Handling Tree control events -- Flex 2.01 Tree user interaction -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Containers -- Flex 2.01 About containers -- Flex 2.01 About container layout -- Flex 2.01 About layout containers and navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Using containers -- Flex 2.01 Flex containers -- Flex 2.01 Class hierarchy for containers -- Flex 2.01 Container example -- Flex 2.01 Using container events -- Flex 2.01 Event overview -- Flex 2.01 About the creation policy -- Flex 2.01 About the initialize and creationComplete events -- Flex 2.01 Disabling containers -- Flex 2.01 Using the Panel container -- Flex 2.01 Defining a default button -- Flex 2.01 Using scroll bars -- Flex 2.01 Using container scroll properties -- Flex 2.01 Scroll bar layout considerations -- Flex 2.01 Controlling scroll delay and interval -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex coordinates -- Flex 2.01 About the coordinate systems -- Flex 2.01 Creating and managing component instances at run time -- Flex 2.01 About the display list and container children -- Flex 2.01 Obtaining the number of child components in a container or application -- Flex 2.01 Accessing display-only children -- Flex 2.01 Creating and removing components at run time -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating and removing a child of an VBox container -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating and removing children of an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Controlling child order -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application Container -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing an Application container and its children -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the default Application container styles -- Flex 2.01 Viewing the application source code -- Flex 2.01 Specifying options of the Application container -- Flex 2.01 About the Application object -- Flex 2.01 About the Document object -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Document and Application object scopes -- Flex 2.01 Using the mx.core.Application.application property -- Flex 2.01 Using the parentDocument property -- Flex 2.01 Using the parentApplication property -- Flex 2.01 Showing the download progress of an application -- Flex 2.01 Disabling the download progress bar -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom progress bar -- Flex 2.01 Download progress bar events -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass of Sprite -- Flex 2.01 Using Layout Containers -- Flex 2.01 About layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Canvas layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating and using a Canvas control -- Flex 2.01 Box, HBox, and VBox layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Box, HBox, or VBox container -- Flex 2.01 ControlBar layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ControlBar container -- Flex 2.01 ApplicationControlBar layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ApplicationControlBar container -- Flex 2.01 DividedBox, HDividedBox, and VDividedBox layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a DividedBox, HDividedBox, or VDividedBox container -- Flex 2.01 Using the dividers -- Flex 2.01 Using live dragging -- Flex 2.01 Form, FormHeading, and FormItem layout containers -- Flex 2.01 About forms -- Flex 2.01 Creating forms -- Flex 2.01 Creating the Form container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a FormHeading control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a FormItem container -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple form -- Flex 2.01 Laying out forms -- Flex 2.01 Aligning and spacing Form container children -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning Form container children -- Flex 2.01 Defining a default button -- Flex 2.01 Specifying required fields -- Flex 2.01 Storing and validating form data -- Flex 2.01 Using Form controls to hold your form data -- Flex 2.01 Validating form control contents data on user entry -- Flex 2.01 Using a Flex data model to store form data -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex validators with form models -- Flex 2.01 Populating a Form control from a data model -- Flex 2.01 Submitting data to a server -- Flex 2.01 Grid layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Grid layout container -- Flex 2.01 Setting the row and column span -- Flex 2.01 Panel layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Panel layout container -- Flex 2.01 Adding a ControlBar container to a Panel container -- Flex 2.01 Tile layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Tile layout container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning a child in a Tile container -- Flex 2.01 TitleWindow layout container -- Flex 2.01 Using the PopUpManager to create a TitleWindow container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Removing a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Using TitleWindow and PopUpManager events -- Flex 2.01 Centering a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Creating a modal pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Passing data to and from a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Using the addPopUp() method -- Flex 2.01 Using Navigator Containers -- Flex 2.01 About navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 ViewStack navigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing the children of a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors to a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing the children of a TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 TabNavigator container Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 Accordion navigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Accordion container Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 Using Button controls to navigate an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Handling child button events -- Flex 2.01 Controlling the appearance of accordion buttons -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the User Interface Using Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About applying behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About factory and instance classes -- Flex 2.01 Available effects -- Flex 2.01 Available triggers -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Playing an effect backward -- Flex 2.01 Ending an effect -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable effect -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in ActionScript using styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors using the Effect.target and Effect.targets properties -- Flex 2.01 Working with effects -- Flex 2.01 Setting effect durations -- Flex 2.01 Using embedded fonts with effects -- Flex 2.01 Creating composite effects -- Flex 2.01 Using the AnimateProperty effect -- Flex 2.01 Delaying effect start -- Flex 2.01 Repeating effects -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with the ViewStack and TabNavigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Using a sound effect -- Flex 2.01 Using a mask effect -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom mask function -- Flex 2.01 Handling effect events -- Flex 2.01 Suspending background processing -- Flex 2.01 Using an easing function -- Flex 2.01 Disabling container layout for effects -- Flex 2.01 Improving performance when resizing Panel containers -- Flex 2.01 Setting UIComponent.cachePolicy on the effect target -- Flex 2.01 Using Styles and Themes -- Flex 2.01 About styles -- Flex 2.01 Using styles in Flex -- Flex 2.01 External style sheets -- Flex 2.01 Setting global styles -- Flex 2.01 About style value formats -- Flex 2.01 Length format -- Flex 2.01 Time format -- Flex 2.01 Color format -- Flex 2.01 Using Arrays for style properties -- Flex 2.01 Using Cascading Style Sheets -- Flex 2.01 About style inheritance -- Flex 2.01 Style inheritance order -- Flex 2.01 Inheritance exceptions -- Flex 2.01 About supported styles -- Flex 2.01 About the themeColor property -- Flex 2.01 Using external style sheets -- Flex 2.01 Using local style definitions -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application type selector -- Flex 2.01 Using the global selector -- Flex 2.01 Using the StyleManager class -- Flex 2.01 Using the setStyle() and getStyle() methods -- Flex 2.01 Setting styles -- Flex 2.01 Improving performance with the setStyle() method -- Flex 2.01 Using inline styles -- Flex 2.01 Loading style sheets at run time -- Flex 2.01 Using filters in Flex -- Flex 2.01 About themes -- Flex 2.01 Using themes -- Flex 2.01 About the included theme files -- Flex 2.01 Creating a theme SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a theme style sheet -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a theme SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Using a configuration file to compile theme SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Using Fonts -- Flex 2.01 About fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using device fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Locating embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple typefaces -- Flex 2.01 About the font managers -- Flex 2.01 Setting character ranges -- Flex 2.01 Embedding double-byte fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts from SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flash 8 files with embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts from SWF files into Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Resolving compiler errors -- Flex 2.01 Resolving run-time errors -- Flex 2.01 Using Skins -- Flex 2.01 About skinning -- Flex 2.01 Graphical skinning -- Flex 2.01 Using style sheets to apply skins -- Flex 2.01 Applying skins inline -- Flex 2.01 Using the setStyle() method -- Flex 2.01 Using SWF files as skins -- Flex 2.01 Programmatic skinning -- Flex 2.01 Programmatic skins recipe -- Flex 2.01 Selecting a superclass -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the updateDisplayList() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing measuredWidth and measuredHeight getters -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a getter for the borderMetrics property -- Flex 2.01 Making properties styleable -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the parent component -- Flex 2.01 Compiling programmatic skins -- Flex 2.01 Drawing programmatically -- Flex 2.01 Applying programmatic skins -- Flex 2.01 Reskinning ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Creating themes -- Flex 2.01 Using Item Renderers and Item Editors -- Flex 2.01 About item renderers -- Flex 2.01 Default item rendering and cell editing -- Flex 2.01 Using custom item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Item renderer and item editor architecture -- Flex 2.01 About item renderer and item editor interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Application layout with item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer and item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using a drop-in item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using an inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using a component as an item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using editable controls in an item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Setting the itemRenderer or itemEditor property in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About the item renderer and item editor life cycle -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the listData property -- Flex 2.01 Creating drop-in item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Using drop-in item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Requirements of a drop-in item renderers in a List control -- Flex 2.01 Creating inline item renderers and editors -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Creating a complex inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Items allowed in an inline component -- Flex 2.01 Using the <mx:Component> tag -- Flex 2.01 Defining the scope in an <mx:Component> tag -- Flex 2.01 Specifying a class name to the inline component -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Creating item renderers and item editor components -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer component -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple item editor component -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the data property -- Flex 2.01 About using the creationComplete and dataChange events -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Working with item renderers -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with the TileList and HorizontalList controls -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Working with Item Editors -- Flex 2.01 The cell editing process -- Flex 2.01 Creating an editable cell -- Flex 2.01 Returning data from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Defining a property to return data -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Making an item editor that responds to the Enter key -- Flex 2.01 Using the cell editing events -- Flex 2.01 Cell editing event classes -- Flex 2.01 Accessing cell data and the item editor in an event listener -- Flex 2.01 Determining the reason for an itemEditEnd event -- Flex 2.01 Item editor examples -- Flex 2.01 Example: Preventing a cell from being edited -- Flex 2.01 Example: Modifying data passed to or received from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Passing multiple values back from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer as an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a data validator in a custom item editor -- Flex 2.01 Examples using item editors with the list controls -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item editor with a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom item editor with a List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom item editor with a Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 About ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Creating ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting styles in ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting the width of ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTip events -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTips with NavBar controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the ToolTip Manager -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting delay times -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Using dynamic ToolTip text -- Flex 2.01 Using error tips -- Flex 2.01 Using the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 About the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 Using the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 Creating and removing a cursor -- Flex 2.01 Using a busy cursor -- Flex 2.01 Setting a busy cursor -- Flex 2.01 Using the showBusyCursor property -- Flex 2.01 Localizing Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About localized Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Creating a localized application -- Flex 2.01 Using the ResourceBundle API -- Flex 2.01 Using localized properties files and ResourceBundle subclasses -- Flex 2.01 Creating the application SWF file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a localized SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Flex Programming Topics Dynamically Repeating Controls and Containers -- Flex 2.01 About Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Using the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Declaring the Repeater component in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Basic principles of the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Creating dynamic loops with the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Referencing repeated components -- Flex 2.01 Referencing repeated child components -- Flex 2.01 Referencing nested Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Event handlers in Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing specific instances of repeated components -- Flex 2.01 Using a Repeater component in a custom MXML component -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically creating components based on data type -- Flex 2.01 How a Repeater component executes -- Flex 2.01 Considerations when using a Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Using View States -- Flex 2.01 About view states -- Flex 2.01 Defining and applying view states -- Flex 2.01 Applying view states -- Flex 2.01 Defining view states -- Flex 2.01 Example: Login form application -- Flex 2.01 Creating a view state in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing components -- Flex 2.01 Setting event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Using view state events -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using view states with history management -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using view states with a custom item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Building applications by using view states -- Flex 2.01 Creating your own override classes -- Flex 2.01 Using Transitions -- Flex 2.01 About transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining multiple transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining effect targets -- Flex 2.01 Defining the effect start and end values -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using transitions -- Flex 2.01 Handling events when using transitions -- Flex 2.01 Using action effects in a transition -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using action effects -- Flex 2.01 Filtering effects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a filter -- Flex 2.01 Defining a custom filter -- Flex 2.01 Writing a filter function -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom effect filter -- Flex 2.01 Transition tips and troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Using the Drag and Drop Manager -- Flex 2.01 About the Drag and Drop Manager -- Flex 2.01 Using drag-and-drop with list-based controls -- Flex 2.01 Examples: List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Manually adding drag-and-drop support -- Flex 2.01 Programming a drag-and-drop operation -- Flex 2.01 Starting a drag-and-drop operation -- Flex 2.01 Writing the initiator event listener -- Flex 2.01 Handling drag-and-drop events -- Flex 2.01 Handling the dragEnter event -- Flex 2.01 Example: All drag-and-drop events -- Flex 2.01 Drag-and-drop techniques and considerations -- Flex 2.01 Embedding Assets -- Flex 2.01 About embedding assets -- Flex 2.01 Syntax for embedding assets -- Flex 2.01 Embedding asset types -- Flex 2.01 Embedding JPEG, GIF, and PNG images -- Flex 2.01 Embedding SVG images -- Flex 2.01 Embedding sounds -- Flex 2.01 Embedding SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Using scale-9 formatting with embedded images -- Flex 2.01 Creating Modular Applications -- Flex 2.01 Modular applications overview -- Flex 2.01 Creating modules -- Flex 2.01 Compiling modules -- Flex 2.01 Loading and unloading modules -- Flex 2.01 Using ModuleLoader events -- Flex 2.01 Using the History Manager -- Flex 2.01 About history management -- Flex 2.01 Using standard history management -- Flex 2.01 Using custom history management -- Flex 2.01 How the HistoryManager class saves and loads states -- Flex 2.01 Using history management in a custom wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Using history management without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using history management with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Printing -- Flex 2.01 About printing by using Flex classes -- Flex 2.01 Using the FlexPrintJob class -- Flex 2.01 Building and sending a print job -- Flex 2.01 Starting a print job -- Flex 2.01 Scaling a print job -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple print job -- Flex 2.01 Using a print-specific output format -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple print-specific output format -- Flex 2.01 Printing multipage output -- Flex 2.01 Printing known-length multipage output -- Flex 2.01 Using the PrintDataGrid control for multipage grids -- Flex 2.01 Example: Printing with multipage PrintDataGrid controls -- Flex 2.01 Multipage print application file -- Flex 2.01 Print output component -- Flex 2.01 Header and footer files -- Flex 2.01 Communicating with the Wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About exchanging data with Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Passing request data to Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application.application.parameters object -- Flex 2.01 Using flashVars -- Flex 2.01 Using query string parameters -- Flex 2.01 Accessing JavaScript functions from Flex -- Flex 2.01 Using the ExternalInterface API to access JavaScript from Flex -- Flex 2.01 Calling JavaScript methods from Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using the navigateToURL() method in Flex -- Flex 2.01 The navigateToURL() method syntax -- Flex 2.01 Opening multiple windows with the navigateToURL() method -- Flex 2.01 Calling JavaScript functions with the URLRequest object -- Flex 2.01 Invoking JavaScript with the navigateToURL() method -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Flex from JavaScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling multiple browser types -- Flex 2.01 Editing the Flex application's id and name properties -- Flex 2.01 Handling browsers that disable JavaScript -- Flex 2.01 About ExternalInterface API security in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Using Shared Objects -- Flex 2.01 About shared objects -- Flex 2.01 Creating a shared object -- Flex 2.01 Destroying shared objects -- Flex 2.01 SharedObject example -- Flex 2.01 Creating Accessible Applications -- Flex 2.01 Accessibility overview -- Flex 2.01 About screen reader technology -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Flex applications for accessibility -- Flex 2.01 Enabling accessibility in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Accessible components and containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating tab order and reading order -- Flex 2.01 Creating accessibility with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Accessibility for hearing-impaired users -- Flex 2.01 Testing accessible content -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Features Representing Data -- Flex 2.01 About data representation -- Flex 2.01 Binding Data -- Flex 2.01 About data binding -- Flex 2.01 Binding data with curly braces -- Flex 2.01 Binding data with the <mx:Binding> tag -- Flex 2.01 Using an E4X expression in an <mx:Binding> tag -- Flex 2.01 About the binding mechanism -- Flex 2.01 Defining bindings in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining binding watchers -- Flex 2.01 Considerations for using the binding feature -- Flex 2.01 Using binding for moving related data -- Flex 2.01 Storing Data -- Flex 2.01 About data models -- Flex 2.01 Defining a data model -- Flex 2.01 Specifying an external source for an <mx:Model> tag or <mx:XML> tag -- Flex 2.01 Using validators with a data model -- Flex 2.01 Using a data model as a value object -- Flex 2.01 Binding data into an XML data model -- Flex 2.01 Validating Data -- Flex 2.01 Validating data -- Flex 2.01 Using validators -- Flex 2.01 Triggering validation by using events -- Flex 2.01 Triggering validation programmatically -- Flex 2.01 Handling the return value of the validate() method -- Flex 2.01 Triggering the DateValidator and CreditCardValidator -- Flex 2.01 Invoking multiple validators in a function -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable validator -- Flex 2.01 Conditionalizing validator execution -- Flex 2.01 Validating required fields -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling a validator -- Flex 2.01 Using data binding to configure validators -- Flex 2.01 General guidelines for validation -- Flex 2.01 Working with validation errors -- Flex 2.01 Working with validation events -- Flex 2.01 Explicitly handling component validation events -- Flex 2.01 Explicitly handing validator validation events -- Flex 2.01 Using standard validators -- Flex 2.01 Using the CreditCardValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the CurrencyValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the DateValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the EmailValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the NumberValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the PhoneNumberValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the RegExpValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the SocialSecurityValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the StringValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the ZipCodeValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Formatting Data -- Flex 2.01 Using formatters -- Flex 2.01 Writing an error handler function -- Flex 2.01 Using the standard formatters -- Flex 2.01 Using the CurrencyFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the DateFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the NumberFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the PhoneFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the ZipCodeFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Data Access and Interconnectivity Accessing Server-Side Data -- Flex 2.01 About Flex data access -- Flex 2.01 About RPC services -- Flex 2.01 About the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About messaging -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Data Services with Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About service configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Data Service configuration file syntax -- Flex 2.01 Configuring message channels -- Flex 2.01 Configuring channel endpoints -- Flex 2.01 Serializing data -- Flex 2.01 Converting data from ActionScript to Java -- Flex 2.01 Converting data from Java to ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Providing legacy AMF serialization on a channel -- Flex 2.01 Converting from ActionScript to Schema and SOAP types for web services -- Flex 2.01 Using custom serialization -- Flex 2.01 Securing destinations -- Flex 2.01 Passing credentials from client-side components -- Flex 2.01 Basic authentication -- Flex 2.01 Custom authentication -- Flex 2.01 Configuring server-side service logging -- Flex 2.01 Working with session data -- Flex 2.01 Using software clustering -- Flex 2.01 Managing services -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom MBean for a custom ServiceAdapter class -- Flex 2.01 Using custom error handling -- Flex 2.01 About Data Services class loading -- Flex 2.01 Web-tier compiler class loading -- Flex 2.01 Data services class loading -- Flex 2.01 Using data services without the web-tier compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the factory mechanism -- Flex 2.01 Understanding RPC Components -- Flex 2.01 About RPC components -- Flex 2.01 Comparing the Flex RPC services feature to other technologies -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC Components -- Flex 2.01 Declaring an RPC component -- Flex 2.01 Using a service without server-side configuration -- Flex 2.01 Using an RPC component with a server-side destination -- Flex 2.01 Configuring a destination -- Flex 2.01 Calling a service -- Flex 2.01 Using explicit parameter passing -- Flex 2.01 Explicit parameter passing with RemoteObject and WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Explicit parameter passing with HTTPService tags -- Flex 2.01 Using parameter binding -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with RemoteObject components -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with HTTPService components -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Setting properties for RemoteObject methods or WebService operations -- Flex 2.01 Calling services in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling service results -- Flex 2.01 Handling results as XML with the e4x result format -- Flex 2.01 Binding a service result to other objects -- Flex 2.01 Binding a result to an ArrayCollection object -- Flex 2.01 Binding a result to an XMLListCollection object -- Flex 2.01 Handling result and fault events -- Flex 2.01 Using a service with binding, validation, and event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Handling asynchronous calls to services -- Flex 2.01 Using features specific to RemoteObject components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Java objects in the source path -- Flex 2.01 Reserved method names -- Flex 2.01 Using features specific to WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Reading WSDL documents -- Flex 2.01 RPC-oriented operations and document-oriented operations -- Flex 2.01 Stateful web services -- Flex 2.01 Working with SOAP headers -- Flex 2.01 Adding SOAP headers to web service requests -- Flex 2.01 Clearing SOAP headers -- Flex 2.01 Redirecting a web service to a different URL -- Flex 2.01 Configuring RPC Services -- Flex 2.01 Understanding destination configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring destination properties -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Proxy Service -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Flex Messaging -- Flex 2.01 About messaging -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Flex messaging architecture -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Messaging -- Flex 2.01 Using messaging in a Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Working with Producer components -- Flex 2.01 Working with Consumer components -- Flex 2.01 Using subtopics -- Flex 2.01 Using a pair of Producer and Consumer components in an application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Message Service -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Message Service configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Message Service destinations -- Flex 2.01 Referencing message channels -- Flex 2.01 Setting network properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting server properties -- Flex 2.01 Referencing Message Service adapters -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the JMS adapter -- Flex 2.01 Using a remote JMS provider -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom Message Service adapter -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Flex Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About the Data Management Service feature -- Flex 2.01 Distributing Data in Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 Creating a distributed data application -- Flex 2.01 Mapping client-side objects to Java objects -- Flex 2.01 Handling data synchronization conflicts -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About Data Management Service configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Data Management Service destinations -- Flex 2.01 Working with data adapters -- Flex 2.01 Using the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Object types and relationships -- Flex 2.01 Using strong and anonymous types with the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Configuring a destination that uses the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Detecting changes to fill method results -- Flex 2.01 Using the fill-method and sync-method approach -- Flex 2.01 Using the Assembler interface approach -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file settings -- Flex 2.01 Using a Hibernate destination -- Flex 2.01 Supported Hibernate features -- Flex 2.01 Hibernate configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file settings -- Flex 2.01 Using the ActionScript object adapter -- Flex 2.01 Managing hierarchical collections -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a managed association -- Flex 2.01 Looking at a managed association example -- Flex 2.01 Implementing an object relationship in a fill method -- Flex 2.01 Pushing data changes from the server to clients -- Flex 2.01 Charting Components Introduction to Charts -- Flex 2.01 About charting -- Flex 2.01 Using the charting controls -- Flex 2.01 About the axes -- Flex 2.01 About charting events -- Flex 2.01 Creating charts in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining chart data -- Flex 2.01 Using chart data -- Flex 2.01 Types of chart data -- Flex 2.01 Using static Arrays as data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using collections as data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using an XML file as a data provider -- Flex 2.01 Randomly generating chart data -- Flex 2.01 Changing chart data at run time -- Flex 2.01 Chart Types -- Flex 2.01 Using area charts -- Flex 2.01 Using bar charts -- Flex 2.01 Using bubble charts -- Flex 2.01 Using candlestick charts -- Flex 2.01 Using column charts -- Flex 2.01 Using HighLowOpenClose charts -- Flex 2.01 Using line charts -- Flex 2.01 Using pie charts -- Flex 2.01 Using labels with PieChart controls -- Flex 2.01 Creating doughnut charts -- Flex 2.01 Creating exploding pie charts -- Flex 2.01 Using plot charts -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple data series -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple axes -- Flex 2.01 Formatting Charts -- Flex 2.01 Applying chart styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Applying CSS to chart controls -- Flex 2.01 Applying different styles to each series -- Flex 2.01 Using predefined axis style properties -- Flex 2.01 Using class selectors for axis styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles inline -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles by binding tag definitions -- Flex 2.01 Adding ChartElement objects -- Flex 2.01 Setting padding properties -- Flex 2.01 Working with axes -- Flex 2.01 About the CategoryAxis class -- Flex 2.01 About the NumericAxis class -- Flex 2.01 Adding axis titles -- Flex 2.01 Defining axis labels -- Flex 2.01 Rotating axis elements -- Flex 2.01 Setting ranges -- Flex 2.01 Formatting tick marks -- Flex 2.01 Formatting axis lines -- Flex 2.01 Using the minField property -- Flex 2.01 Using strokes -- Flex 2.01 Using fills -- Flex 2.01 Setting fills with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Using a gradient fill with chart controls -- Flex 2.01 Using different alpha values with a fill -- Flex 2.01 Using filters -- Flex 2.01 Adding grid lines -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with MXML -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using DataTips -- Flex 2.01 Showing multiple DataTips -- Flex 2.01 Customizing DataTip values -- Flex 2.01 Skinning ChartItem objects -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple renderer classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom renderers -- Flex 2.01 Creating graphical renderers -- Flex 2.01 Creating programmatic renderers -- Flex 2.01 Using Legend controls -- Flex 2.01 Adding a Legend control to your chart -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom Legend control -- Flex 2.01 Formatting the Legend control -- Flex 2.01 Setting the direction of legends -- Flex 2.01 Formatting the legend markers -- Flex 2.01 Stacking charts -- Flex 2.01 Using Events and Effects in Charts -- Flex 2.01 Handling user interactions with charts -- Flex 2.01 Using the HitData object -- Flex 2.01 Getting chart elements -- Flex 2.01 Getting data with coordinates -- Flex 2.01 Changing mouse sensitivity -- Flex 2.01 Disabling interactivity -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with charts -- Flex 2.01 Using standard effect triggers -- Flex 2.01 Using charting effect triggers -- Flex 2.01 Charting effects with data series -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesSlide effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesZoom effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesInterpolate effect -- Flex 2.01 Applying effects with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Building and Deploying Flex 2 Applications Building and Deploying Overview About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Flex Application Development -- Flex 2.01 About building and deploying applications -- Flex 2.01 Design phase -- Flex 2.01 Configure phase -- Flex 2.01 Build phase -- Flex 2.01 Deploy phase -- Flex 2.01 Secure phase -- Flex 2.01 About building applications for Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 About building applications for Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Before using Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Flex Application Structure -- Flex 2.01 Installation directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Development directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Flex file types -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Sharing assets among applications -- Flex 2.01 Sharing MXML and ActionScript files among applications -- Flex 2.01 Using a SWC file in a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Using an RSL in a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Services application directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Options for developing a Flex Data Services application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling an application -- Flex 2.01 About case sensitivity during a compile -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex Builder application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex Data Services application -- Flex 2.01 Deployment directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Applying Flex Security -- Flex 2.01 Introduction -- Flex 2.01 Declarative compared to programmatic security -- Flex 2.01 Client security overview -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player security features -- Flex 2.01 About sandboxes -- Flex 2.01 Browser security -- Flex 2.01 Server security overview -- Flex 2.01 About J2EE security -- Flex 2.01 Deploying secure applications -- Flex 2.01 Securing JRun -- Flex 2.01 Loading assets -- Flex 2.01 Data compared to content -- Flex 2.01 Loading remote assets -- Flex 2.01 Using cross-domain policy files -- Flex 2.01 Loading local assets -- Flex 2.01 Using J2EE authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using container-based authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using authentication to control access to Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC services -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to RPC services with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to RPC services without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using secured services -- Flex 2.01 Using data services -- Flex 2.01 Making other connections -- Flex 2.01 Using RTMP -- Flex 2.01 Using sockets -- Flex 2.01 Using the LocalConnection class -- Flex 2.01 Using SSL -- Flex 2.01 Using secure endpoints with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using secure endpoints without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Writing secure Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 MXML tags with security restrictions -- Flex 2.01 Disabling viewSourceURL -- Flex 2.01 Remove sensitive information from SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Input validation -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling errors -- Flex 2.01 Suppressing debug output -- Flex 2.01 Using host-based authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using passwords -- Flex 2.01 Storing persistent data with the SharedObject class -- Flex 2.01 Configuring client security settings -- Flex 2.01 About the mm.cfg file -- Flex 2.01 About the mms.cfg file -- Flex 2.01 About FlashPlayerTrust files -- Flex 2.01 About the Settings Manager -- Flex 2.01 Other resources -- Flex 2.01 Optimizing Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About performance -- Flex 2.01 Improving client-side performance -- Flex 2.01 General guidelines -- Flex 2.01 Testing applications for performance -- Flex 2.01 Calculating application initialization time -- Flex 2.01 Calculating elapsed time -- Flex 2.01 Calculating memory usage -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the client environment -- Flex 2.01 Choosing the version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Disabling SpeedStep -- Flex 2.01 Changing timeout length -- Flex 2.01 Preventing client-side caching -- Flex 2.01 Using the JRun sniffer -- Flex 2.01 Reducing SWF file sizes -- Flex 2.01 Using the bytecode optimizer -- Flex 2.01 Disabling debugging -- Flex 2.01 Using strict mode -- Flex 2.01 Examining linker dependencies -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding initializing unused classes -- Flex 2.01 Externalizing assets -- Flex 2.01 Using character ranges for embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Comparing dynamic and static linking -- Flex 2.01 Using RSLs to reduce SWF file size -- Flex 2.01 Application coding -- Flex 2.01 Object creation and destruction -- Flex 2.01 Using styles -- Flex 2.01 Working with containers -- Flex 2.01 Improving effect performance -- Flex 2.01 Improving rendering speed -- Flex 2.01 Using large data sets -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically repeating components -- Flex 2.01 Improving server-side performance -- Flex 2.01 Precompiling -- Flex 2.01 Using incremental compilation -- Flex 2.01 Disabling Express Install and player detection -- Flex 2.01 Disabling history management -- Flex 2.01 Tuning JVM heap sizes -- Flex 2.01 Caching -- Flex 2.01 Using headless servers -- Flex 2.01 Enabling production mode -- Flex 2.01 Improving Flex Charting component performance -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding filtering series data -- Flex 2.01 Coding the LinearAxis object -- Flex 2.01 Coding the CategoryAxis object -- Flex 2.01 Styling AxisRenderer objects -- Flex 2.01 Specifying gutter styles -- Flex 2.01 Using drop shadows -- Flex 2.01 Improving Startup Performance -- Flex 2.01 About startup performance -- Flex 2.01 About startup order -- Flex 2.01 Using deferred creation -- Flex 2.01 About the creationPolicy property -- Flex 2.01 Single-view containers -- Flex 2.01 Multiple-view containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating deferred components -- Flex 2.01 Using ordered creation -- Flex 2.01 Adding containers to the queue -- Flex 2.01 Setting queue order -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically adding containers to the queue -- Flex 2.01 Combining containers with different creationPolicy settings -- Flex 2.01 Using the callLater() method -- Flex 2.01 Building Flex Applications Building Overview -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex development tools -- Flex 2.01 Configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Compilers -- Flex 2.01 Debugger -- Flex 2.01 Loggers -- Flex 2.01 About application files -- Flex 2.01 Component classes -- Flex 2.01 SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Component libraries -- Flex 2.01 Runtime Shared Libraries -- Flex 2.01 Themes -- Flex 2.01 Resource bundles -- Flex 2.01 Other assets -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK and Flex Data Services Configuration -- Flex 2.01 About configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Applying license keys -- Flex 2.01 Root variables -- Flex 2.01 Configuration files layout -- Flex 2.01 About application and server verbiage -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK configuration -- Flex 2.01 Command-line compiler configuration -- Flex 2.01 JVM configuration -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Services configuration -- Flex 2.01 Compiler configuration -- Flex 2.01 JVM configuration -- Flex 2.01 Data services configuration -- Flex 2.01 Servlet configuration -- Flex 2.01 Logging configuration -- Flex 2.01 Server-side caching configuration -- Flex 2.01 Production mode -- Flex 2.01 Configuring mappings -- Flex 2.01 Using virtual directories -- Flex 2.01 Changing the default application mapping -- Flex 2.01 Changing the context root -- Flex 2.01 Configuring directory browsing -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player configuration -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Compilers -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex compilers -- Flex 2.01 About the application compilers -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder application compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the mxmlc application compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the web-tier application compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the component compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder component compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the compc component compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the command-line compilers -- Flex 2.01 Command-line syntax -- Flex 2.01 Using abbreviated option names -- Flex 2.01 Invoking the command-line compilers with Java -- Flex 2.01 About configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Locating configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file syntax -- Flex 2.01 About the root tag -- Flex 2.01 Getting the configuration file tags -- Flex 2.01 Understanding leaf nodes -- Flex 2.01 Using tokens -- Flex 2.01 Appending values -- Flex 2.01 About option precedence -- Flex 2.01 Using the application compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the application compiler options -- Flex 2.01 Basic example -- Flex 2.01 Adding metadata to SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Setting the file encoding -- Flex 2.01 Editing application settings -- Flex 2.01 Using SWC files -- Flex 2.01 About incremental compilation -- Flex 2.01 Using the component compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the component compiler options -- Flex 2.01 Compiling stand-alone components and classes -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components in packages -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components using namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Components in a single namespace -- Flex 2.01 Components in multiple namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Adding utility classes -- Flex 2.01 Adding nonsource classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating themes -- Flex 2.01 Viewing errors and warnings -- Flex 2.01 About SWC files -- Flex 2.01 About manifest files -- Flex 2.01 Using Runtime Shared Libraries -- Flex 2.01 About RSLs -- Flex 2.01 Creating libraries -- Flex 2.01 Using RSLs -- Flex 2.01 RSL example -- Flex 2.01 Logging -- Flex 2.01 About logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Determining Flash Player version in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Client-side logging and debugging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the debugger version of Flash Player to record trace() output -- Flex 2.01 Using the global trace() method -- Flex 2.01 Using the Logging API -- Flex 2.01 Using the Logging API with data services -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a custom logger with the Logging API -- Flex 2.01 Compiler logging -- Flex 2.01 Web-tier logging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring web application logging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring web-tier compiler logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the Command-Line Debugger -- Flex 2.01 About debugging -- Flex 2.01 Using the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Invoking the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session with the stand-alone debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session in a browser with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session in a browser without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Using the command-line debugger commands -- Flex 2.01 Running the debugger -- Flex 2.01 Setting breakpoints -- Flex 2.01 Accessing commands from a file -- Flex 2.01 Changing data values -- Flex 2.01 Viewing file contents -- Flex 2.01 Printing stack traces -- Flex 2.01 Getting status -- Flex 2.01 Handling faults -- Flex 2.01 Getting help -- Flex 2.01 Terminating the session -- Flex 2.01 Using ASDoc -- Flex 2.01 About the ASDoc tool -- Flex 2.01 Creating ASDoc comments -- Flex 2.01 Documenting ActionScript elements -- Flex 2.01 Documenting MXML files -- Flex 2.01 ASDoc tags -- Flex 2.01 Using the @see tag -- Flex 2.01 Summary of commonly used HTML elements -- Flex 2.01 Running the ASDoc tool -- Flex 2.01 Creating Applications for Testing -- Flex 2.01 Tasks and techniques for testable applications overview -- Flex 2.01 Compiling applications for testing -- Flex 2.01 Using run-time loading -- Flex 2.01 Creating testable applications -- Flex 2.01 Providing meaningful identification of objects -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding duplication of objects -- Flex 2.01 Coding containers -- Flex 2.01 Writing the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the automation framework -- Flex 2.01 About the IAutomationObjectHelper -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing initialization -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing recording -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing playback -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting events -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting existing events -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating a delegate class -- Flex 2.01 Using the class definitions file -- Flex 2.01 Setting the automationName property -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting composite components -- Flex 2.01 Example: Instrumenting the RandomWalk custom component -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting the RandomWalk custom component -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting RandomWalk events -- Flex 2.01 Preparing RandomWalk for playback -- Flex 2.01 Adjusting event recording -- Flex 2.01 Adding checkpoints -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex Applications Deploying Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About deploying an application -- Flex 2.01 Deployment options -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex 2 SDK applications -- Flex 2.01 Deploying RSLs with Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 Deploying additional Flex files -- Flex 2.01 Accessing data services from a deployed application -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex Data Services applications -- Flex 2.01 Deploying the Flex Data Services web application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Compiling for deployment -- Flex 2.01 Deployment checklist -- Flex 2.01 Types of network access -- Flex 2.01 Step 1. Create a list of server-side resources -- Flex 2.01 Step 2. Verify access from server to server within your firewall -- Flex 2.01 Step 3. Verify access to your servers from outside the firewall -- Flex 2.01 Step 4. Configure the proxy server -- Flex 2.01 Step 5. Create a crossdomain policy file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex Builder wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the wrapper generated by Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About the HTML templates -- Flex 2.01 Creating a wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the HTML page -- Flex 2.01 About the JavaScript file -- Flex 2.01 Adding features to the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding Express Install to your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding history management to your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the <object> and <embed> tags -- Flex 2.01 Unsupported properties -- Flex 2.01 Requesting an MXML file without the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Using Express Install -- Flex 2.01 About Express Install -- Flex 2.01 Editing your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding Express Install script to the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Express Install script -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Express Install on Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Alternatives to Express Install -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun Configuring JRun -- Flex 2.01 About JRun application servers -- Flex 2.01 Limitations of the JRun application server -- Flex 2.01 About the default web applications -- Flex 2.01 Starting and stopping JRun servers -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing servers -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun servers -- Flex 2.01 Changing port numbers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a web application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the hot-deploy feature -- Flex 2.01 Using virtual directories -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling directory browsing -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the sniffer -- Flex 2.01 Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components Creating Custom Flex Components About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex Components -- Flex 2.01 About creating components -- Flex 2.01 The Flex class hierarchy -- Flex 2.01 Customizing existing Flex components -- Flex 2.01 The relationship between MXML components and ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Deciding to create components in MXML or ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Creating new components -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Deploying components -- Flex 2.01 Where to go from here -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript to Create Components -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using the package statement -- Flex 2.01 Using the import statement -- Flex 2.01 Using the class statement -- Flex 2.01 Defining the constructor -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties as variables -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties as getters and setters -- Flex 2.01 Defining methods -- Flex 2.01 Using the super keyword in a method override -- Flex 2.01 About scope -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Events -- Flex 2.01 About events -- Flex 2.01 Using an event object -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching custom events -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass from the Event class -- Flex 2.01 Using the Event metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching an event -- Flex 2.01 Creating static constants for the Event.type property -- Flex 2.01 Using Metadata Tags in Custom Components -- Flex 2.01 About metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 Using metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 Metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 ArrayElementType metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Bindable metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 DefaultProperty metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Effect metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Event metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 IconFile metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Inspectable metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 InstanceType metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 NonCommittingChangeEvent metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Style metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Compiling Components -- Flex 2.01 About compiling -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components with Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as MXML and ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as RSLs -- Flex 2.01 Example: Compiling a custom formatter component -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as an ActionScript file -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as a SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as an RSL file -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML Components Creating Simple MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components -- Flex 2.01 MXML components and ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating composite MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Scoping in custom components -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles to your custom component -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles from the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles from the referencing file -- Flex 2.01 Applying a type selector to the root tag of a custom component -- Flex 2.01 Creating Advanced MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About reusable MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Adding custom properties and methods to a component -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties and methods in MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties and methods in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties by using setters and getters -- Flex 2.01 Defining inspectable properties -- Flex 2.01 Supporting data binding in custom properties -- Flex 2.01 Passing references to properties of MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the Application object -- Flex 2.01 Passing a reference to the component -- Flex 2.01 Passing a reference to the calling component -- Flex 2.01 Working with events -- Flex 2.01 Handling events from simple MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom events -- Flex 2.01 Handling events from composite components -- Flex 2.01 About interfaces -- Flex 2.01 About implementing IMXMLObject -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript Components Creating Simple Visual Components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a simple component -- Flex 2.01 Adding properties and methods to a component -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Accessing public properties in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties as variables -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties by using getter and setter methods -- Flex 2.01 Creating a default property -- Flex 2.01 Making properties accessible in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Using data binding with custom properties -- Flex 2.01 Defining a method override -- Flex 2.01 Initializing inherited properties with tag attributes in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining events in ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Handling predefined events within the component -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching custom events -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles to custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating Advanced Visual Components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About creating advanced components -- Flex 2.01 About overriding protected UIComponent methods -- Flex 2.01 About the invalidation methods -- Flex 2.01 About the component instantiation life cycle -- Flex 2.01 About the steps for creating a component -- Flex 2.01 About interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the component -- Flex 2.01 Basic component structure -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the constructor -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the createChildren() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the commitProperties() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the measure() method -- Flex 2.01 Calculating default sizes -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the layoutChrome() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the updateDisplayList() method -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the layout mechanism of the VBox container -- Flex 2.01 Drawing graphics in your component -- Flex 2.01 Making components accessible -- Flex 2.01 Adding version numbers -- Flex 2.01 Best practices when designing a component -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a composite component -- Flex 2.01 Example: Composite component -- Flex 2.01 Defining event listeners for composite components -- Flex 2.01 Creating the ModalText component -- Flex 2.01 Troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Style Properties -- Flex 2.01 About styles -- Flex 2.01 About inheritance in Cascading Style Sheets -- Flex 2.01 About setting styles -- Flex 2.01 About overriding the styleChanged() method -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating style properties -- Flex 2.01 Defining a style property -- Flex 2.01 Setting default style values -- Flex 2.01 Defining a style property for a skin -- Flex 2.01 Creating Template Components -- Flex 2.01 About template components -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a template component -- Flex 2.01 Using general data types in a template component -- Flex 2.01 Using IDeferredInstance in a template component -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties using the IDeferredInstance interface -- Flex 2.01 Creating Nonvisual Flex Components Creating Custom Formatters -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom formatter -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple formatter -- Flex 2.01 Handling errors in formatters -- Flex 2.01 Using the SwitchSymbolFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Extending a Formatter class -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Validators -- Flex 2.01 Validating data by using custom validators -- Flex 2.01 About overriding the doValidation() method -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a simple validator -- Flex 2.01 Example: Validating multiple fields -- Flex 2.01 Creating Effects -- Flex 2.01 About creating a custom effect -- Flex 2.01 Defining factory and instance classes -- Flex 2.01 About the effect base classes -- Flex 2.01 About implementing your effects classes -- Flex 2.01 Example: Defining a simple effect -- Flex 2.01 Example: Passing parameters to effects -- Flex 2.01 About tween effects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a tween effect -- Flex 2.01 Writing an effect for a transition -- Flex 2.01 Defining the default values for a transition effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the propertyChanges property -- Flex 2.01 How Flex initializes the propertyChanges property -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a transition effect -- Flex 2.01 Defining a custom effect trigger -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the initEffect() method -- Flex 2.01 Programming ActionScript 3.0 Overview of ActionScript Programming About This Manual -- Flex 2.01 Using this manual -- Flex 2.01 Accessing ActionScript documentation -- Flex 2.01 Developer Center -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Advantages of ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 What's new in ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 Core language features -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player API features -- Flex 2.01 Compatibility with previous versions -- Flex 2.01 Getting Started with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 The basic ActionScript development process -- Flex 2.01 Options for organizing your code -- Flex 2.01 Storing code in frames in a Flash timeline -- Flex 2.01 Embedding code in Flex MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Storing code in ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a basic application -- Flex 2.01 Designing your ActionScript application -- Flex 2.01 Creating the HelloWorld project and the Greeter class -- Flex 2.01 Adding code to the Greeter class -- Flex 2.01 Creating an application that uses your ActionScript code -- Flex 2.01 Publishing and testing your ActionScript application -- Flex 2.01 Enhancing the HelloWorld application -- Flex 2.01 Running subsequent examples -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript Language and Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Language overview -- Flex 2.01 Objects and classes -- Flex 2.01 Packages and namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Packages -- Flex 2.01 Namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Variables -- Flex 2.01 Data types -- Flex 2.01 Type checking -- Flex 2.01 Dynamic classes -- Flex 2.01 Data type descriptions -- Flex 2.01 Type conversions -- Flex 2.01 Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Operators -- Flex 2.01 Conditionals -- Flex 2.01 Looping -- Flex 2.01 Functions -- Flex 2.01 Basic function concepts -- Flex 2.01 Function parameters -- Flex 2.01 Functions as objects -- Flex 2.01 Function scope -- Flex 2.01 Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Classes -- Flex 2.01 Class definitions -- Flex 2.01 Class property attributes -- Flex 2.01 Variables -- Flex 2.01 Methods -- Flex 2.01 Enumerations with classes -- Flex 2.01 Embedded asset classes -- Flex 2.01 Interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Inheritance -- Flex 2.01 Advanced topics -- Flex 2.01 Example: GeometricShapes -- Flex 2.01 Display Programming -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the display architecture -- Flex 2.01 Core display classes -- Flex 2.01 Advantages of the ActionScript 3.0 display list approach -- Flex 2.01 Working with display objects -- Flex 2.01 Basics for working with the core display classes -- Flex 2.01 Drawing vector graphics -- Flex 2.01 Working with text -- Flex 2.01 Loading content dynamically -- Flex 2.01 Controlling ActionScript 3.0 movie clips -- Flex 2.01 Creating and manipulating bitmaps -- Flex 2.01 Working with SimpleButton objects -- Flex 2.01 Working with video -- Flex 2.01 Example: SpriteArranger -- Flex 2.01 Core ActionScript 3.0 Data Types and Classes Working with Dates and Times -- Flex 2.01 Managing calendar dates and times -- Flex 2.01 Controlling time intervals -- Flex 2.01 Example: Simple analog clock -- Flex 2.01 Working with Strings -- Flex 2.01 Creating strings -- Flex 2.01 The length property -- Flex 2.01 Working with characters in strings -- Flex 2.01 Comparing strings -- Flex 2.01 Obtaining string representations of other objects -- Flex 2.01 Concatenating strings -- Flex 2.01 Finding substrings and patterns in strings -- Flex 2.01 Converting strings between uppercase and lowercase -- Flex 2.01 Example: ASCII Art -- Flex 2.01 Working with Arrays -- Flex 2.01 Indexed arrays -- Flex 2.01 Associative arrays -- Flex 2.01 Multidimensional arrays -- Flex 2.01 Cloning arrays -- Flex 2.01 Advanced Topics -- Flex 2.01 Example: PlayList -- Flex 2.01 Handling Errors -- Flex 2.01 Types of errors -- Flex 2.01 Error handling in ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript 3.0 error handling elements -- Flex 2.01 Error handling strategies -- Flex 2.01 Working with the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Handling synchronous errors in an application -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom error classes -- Flex 2.01 Responding to error events and status -- Flex 2.01 Comparing the Error classes -- Flex 2.01 ECMAScript core Error classes -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript core Error classes -- Flex 2.01 flash.error package Error classes -- Flex 2.01 Example: CustomErrors application -- Flex 2.01 Using Regular Expressions -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to Regular Expressions -- Flex 2.01 Regular expression syntax -- Flex 2.01 Creating an instance of a regular expression -- Flex 2.01 Characters, metacharacters, and metasequences -- Flex 2.01 Character classes -- Flex 2.01 Quantifiers -- Flex 2.01 Alternation -- Flex 2.01 Groups -- Flex 2.01 Flags and properties -- Flex 2.01 Methods for using regular expressions with strings -- Flex 2.01 Example: A Wiki parser -- Flex 2.01 Working with XML -- Flex 2.01 A quick introduction to XML -- Flex 2.01 The E4X approach to XML processing -- Flex 2.01 XML objects -- Flex 2.01 XMLList objects -- Flex 2.01 Initializing XML variables -- Flex 2.01 Assembling and transforming XML objects -- Flex 2.01 Traversing XML structures -- Flex 2.01 Using XML namespaces -- Flex 2.01 XML type conversion -- Flex 2.01 Reading external XML documents -- Flex 2.01 Example: Loading RSS data from the Internet -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player APIs Flash Player API Overview -- Flex 2.01 Handling Events -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to Event Handling -- Flex 2.01 How ActionScript 3.0 event handling differs from earlier versions -- Flex 2.01 The event flow -- Flex 2.01 Event objects -- Flex 2.01 Event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Example: Alarm Clock -- Flex 2.01 Networking and Communication -- Flex 2.01 Working with external data -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to other Flash Player instances -- Flex 2.01 Socket connections -- Flex 2.01 Storing local data -- Flex 2.01 Working with file upload and download -- Flex 2.01 Example: Building a Telnet client -- Flex 2.01 Example: Uploading and downloading files -- Flex 2.01 Working with Geometry -- Flex 2.01 Using Point objects -- Flex 2.01 Using Rectangle objects -- Flex 2.01 Using Matrix objects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Applying a matrix transformation to a display object -- Flex 2.01 Client System Environment -- Flex 2.01 System class -- Flex 2.01 Capabilities class -- Flex 2.01 ApplicationDomain class -- Flex 2.01 IME class -- Flex 2.01 Example: Detecting system capabilities -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player Security -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player Security overview -- Flex 2.01 Overview of permission controls -- Flex 2.01 Security sandboxes -- Flex 2.01 Restricting networking APIs -- Flex 2.01 Full-screen mode security -- Flex 2.01 Loading content -- Flex 2.01 Cross-scripting -- Flex 2.01 Accessing loaded media as data -- Flex 2.01 Loading data -- Flex 2.01 Loading embedded content from SWF files imported into a security domain -- Flex 2.01 Working with legacy content -- Flex 2.01 Setting LocalConnection permissions -- Flex 2.01 Controlling access to scripts in a host web page -- Flex 2.01 Shared objects -- Flex 2.01 Camera, microphone, Clipboard, mouse, and keyboard access -- Flex 2.01 Printing -- Flex 2.01 What's new for the PrintJob class using ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 Printing a page -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player tasks and system printing -- Flex 2.01 Setting size, scale, and orientation -- Flex 2.01 Example: Multiple-page printing -- Flex 2.01 Example: Scaling, cropping, and responding -- Flex 2.01 Using the External API -- Flex 2.01 About the External API -- Flex 2.01 Using the ExternalInterface class -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using the External API with a web page container -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using the External API with an ActiveX container -- Flex 2.01 Getting Started with Flex 2 Introducing Flex About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Flex -- Flex 2.01 About Flex -- Flex 2.01 Benefits of using Flex -- Flex 2.01 Flex deployment models -- Flex 2.01 Summary of Flex application features -- Flex 2.01 Where to next -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Flex Builder 2 -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder perspectives -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective -- Flex 2.01 Designing Flex applications in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Debugging perspective -- Flex 2.01 Compiling your applications -- Flex 2.01 Running and debugging your applications -- Flex 2.01 More information about Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Flex Basics Building a Flex Application -- Flex 2.01 Developing applications -- Flex 2.01 Application model -- Flex 2.01 How Flex fits the MVC models -- Flex 2.01 Working with a web server -- Flex 2.01 Typical application development steps -- Flex 2.01 Deploying applications -- Flex 2.01 The Flex programming model -- Flex 2.01 Relationship of the Flex class hierarchy to MXML and ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Laying out your application -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder to lay out your application -- Flex 2.01 Defining a user interface in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Adding ActionScript to a Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Controlling application appearance -- Flex 2.01 Working with data services -- Flex 2.01 Separating your data model from your view -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex coding process -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from HTML -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from an HTML templating environment -- Flex 2.01 Moving to Flex from Flash Professional -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex development tools -- Flex 2.01 Building a Flex Data Services Application -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex Message Service -- Flex 2.01 About RPC services -- Flex 2.01 About the development environment -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Charting Components -- Flex 2.01 About charting -- Flex 2.01 Defining chart data -- Flex 2.01 Chart types -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML -- Flex 2.01 Writing a simple application -- Flex 2.01 The relationship of MXML tags to ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder with MXML -- Flex 2.01 How MXML relates to standards -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript in Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript blocks in MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Using special characters in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Referring to Flex components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Including ActionScript code versus importing ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Lessons Create Your First Application -- Flex 2.01 Create the Lessons project -- Flex 2.01 Learn about compiling in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Create and run an application -- Flex 2.01 Retrieve and Display Data -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Review your access to remote data sources -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position the blog reader controls -- Flex 2.01 Insert a HTTPService component -- Flex 2.01 Populate a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Display a selected item -- Flex 2.01 Create a dynamic link -- Flex 2.01 Create a Constraint-based Layout -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Learn about constraint-based layouts in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position the components -- Flex 2.01 Define the layout constraints -- Flex 2.01 Use List-based Form Controls -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position controls -- Flex 2.01 Populate the list -- Flex 2.01 Associate values with list items -- Flex 2.01 Use an Event Listener -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a simple user interface -- Flex 2.01 Write an event listener -- Flex 2.01 Associate the listener with an event with MXML -- Flex 2.01 Associate the listener with an event with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Use Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a behavior -- Flex 2.01 Invoke an effect from a different component -- Flex 2.01 Create a composite effect -- Flex 2.01 Use View States and Transitions -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Design the base state -- Flex 2.01 Design a view state -- Flex 2.01 Define how users switch view states -- Flex 2.01 Create a transition -- Flex 2.01 Create a Custom Component -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create a test file for the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Create the custom component file -- Flex 2.01 Design the layout of the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Define an event listener for the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Use the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Use the Code Editor -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file to demonstrate code editing features -- Flex 2.01 Use Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Show line numbers -- Flex 2.01 Add a code comment -- Flex 2.01 Use the Outline view -- Flex 2.01 Show language reference Help -- Flex 2.01 Open a code definition -- Flex 2.01 Debug an Application -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Preview the application in design view -- Flex 2.01 Add a calculation function -- Flex 2.01 Run and test the application -- Flex 2.01 Set a breakpoint -- Flex 2.01 Debug the sample application -- Flex 2.01 Watch a variable -- Flex 2.01 Correct the coding error -- Flex 2.01 Use Web Services -- Flex 2.01 Set up your project -- Flex 2.01 Review your access to remote data sources -- Flex 2.01 Review the API documentation -- Flex 2.01 Insert and position controls -- Flex 2.01 Insert a WebService component -- Flex 2.01 Populate the DataGrid component -- Flex 2.01 Create a dynamic link -- Flex 2.01 Use the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 Before you begin -- Flex 2.01 Build a distributed application with the ActionScript object adapter -- Flex 2.01 Configure a Data Management Service destination -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Create the user interface -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create variables -- Flex 2.01 Initialize the application -- Flex 2.01 Send notes -- Flex 2.01 Handle returned data -- Flex 2.01 Verify that your code is correct -- Flex 2.01 Run the completed notes application -- Flex 2.01 Build a distributed application with the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Install the contact application -- Flex 2.01 View the samples.contact.Contact class -- Flex 2.01 Create an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Create the user interface -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create variables -- Flex 2.01 Bind the ArrayCollection object to the DataGrid -- Flex 2.01 Fill the ArrayCollection object with data -- Flex 2.01 Verify that your code is correct -- Flex 2.01 Run the completed contact application -- Flex 2.01 View the server-side Data Management Service destination -- Flex 2.01 View the assembler class -- Flex 2.01 View the fill methods -- Flex 2.01 View the sync method -- Flex 2.01 Use ColdFusion Event Gateway Adapter -- Flex 2.01 Set up your development environment -- Flex 2.01 Create the Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Import the required ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Create the ColdFusion application -- Flex 2.01 Test the application -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder 2 Getting Started with Flex Builder Introduction -- Flex 2.01 What you can do with Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder versions -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder configurations -- Flex 2.01 System requirements -- Flex 2.01 Activating Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Typographical conventions -- Flex 2.01 Learning Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 How to get started using Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Getting the most from the Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder help system -- Flex 2.01 Opening Help -- Flex 2.01 Using dynamic help -- Flex 2.01 Using context-sensitive help -- Flex 2.01 Searching Help -- Flex 2.01 Using Help bookmarks -- Flex 2.01 Changing the Help viewer font size -- Flex 2.01 Setting Help preferences -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Start page -- Flex 2.01 Printing the Flex and Flex Builder documentation -- Flex 2.01 Discussing the Flex and Flex Builder documentation with LiveDocs -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder Workbench Basics -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder basics -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder editors -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder perspectives -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Development perspective in Design mode -- Flex 2.01 The Flex Debugging perspective -- Flex 2.01 Other useful workbench views -- Flex 2.01 Workbench menus, toolbars, and shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 The workbench toolbar -- Flex 2.01 The MXML editor toolbar -- Flex 2.01 Using keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Extending the Flex Builder workbench -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder Basics Working with Projects -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Flex Builder projects -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder project types -- Flex 2.01 Projects in the Navigator view -- Flex 2.01 About project resource types -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex projects -- Flex 2.01 Managing projects -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex project properties -- Flex 2.01 Importing projects -- Flex 2.01 Moving a project from one workspace to another -- Flex 2.01 Deleting projects -- Flex 2.01 Closing and opening projects -- Flex 2.01 Switching the main application file -- Flex 2.01 Managing project application files -- Flex 2.01 Managing project resources -- Flex 2.01 Creating folders and files in a project -- Flex 2.01 Deleting folders and files -- Flex 2.01 Importing resources into a project -- Flex 2.01 Exporting resources -- Flex 2.01 Moving resources between projects in a workspace -- Flex 2.01 Refreshing resources in the workspace -- Flex 2.01 Linking to resources outside the project workspace -- Flex 2.01 Adding resource folders to the project source path -- Flex 2.01 Adding project references -- Flex 2.01 Viewing resource properties -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ActionScript class -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ActionScript interface -- Flex 2.01 About library projects -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex component library files -- Flex 2.01 Using SWC files in your projects -- Flex 2.01 Navigating and Customizing the Flex Builder Workbench -- Flex 2.01 Working with perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Opening perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Switching between perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Setting the default perspective -- Flex 2.01 Opening perspectives in a new window -- Flex 2.01 Creating a customized perspective -- Flex 2.01 Deleting a customized perspective -- Flex 2.01 Resetting perspectives -- Flex 2.01 Working with editors and views -- Flex 2.01 Opening views -- Flex 2.01 Moving and docking views -- Flex 2.01 Rearranging tabbed views -- Flex 2.01 Switching between views -- Flex 2.01 Creating and working with fast views -- Flex 2.01 Filtering the Tasks and Problems views -- Flex 2.01 Creating working sets -- Flex 2.01 Opening files for editing -- Flex 2.01 Associating editors with file types -- Flex 2.01 Editing files outside the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Tiling editors -- Flex 2.01 Maximizing a view or editor -- Flex 2.01 Switching the workspace -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Rearranging the main toolbar -- Flex 2.01 Changing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Changing fonts and colors -- Flex 2.01 About changing fonts -- Flex 2.01 Changing fonts -- Flex 2.01 Changing colors -- Flex 2.01 Changing the placement of tabs -- Flex 2.01 Controlling single- and double-click behavior -- Flex 2.01 Searching in the workbench -- Flex 2.01 Searching for files -- Flex 2.01 Using the Search view -- Flex 2.01 Working in the editor's Source and Design modes -- Flex 2.01 Accessing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Setting workbench preferences -- Flex 2.01 Developing a Flex Application User Interface Building a Flex User Interface -- Flex 2.01 About the structure of Flex user interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Adding components -- Flex 2.01 Adding components visually -- Flex 2.01 Adding components by writing code -- Flex 2.01 Adding Flash components (SWC files) -- Flex 2.01 Working with components visually -- Flex 2.01 Using the MXML editor in Design mode -- Flex 2.01 Selecting multiple components in an MXML file -- Flex 2.01 Positioning components -- Flex 2.01 Sizing components -- Flex 2.01 Using snapping to position components -- Flex 2.01 Aligning components -- Flex 2.01 Nudging components -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Applying CSS styles to components -- Flex 2.01 Refreshing Design mode to render properly -- Flex 2.01 Showing surrounding containers -- Flex 2.01 Inspecting the structure of your MXML -- Flex 2.01 Hiding container borders -- Flex 2.01 Copying components to other MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Deleting components -- Flex 2.01 Laying out your user interface -- Flex 2.01 About constraint-based layouts -- Flex 2.01 Inserting and positioning components in the layout -- Flex 2.01 Setting layout constraints for components -- Flex 2.01 Adding navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating layouts in navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Letting users select a view in a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Adding data provider controls -- Flex 2.01 Adding charting components -- Flex 2.01 Adding View States and Transitions -- Flex 2.01 About view states and transitions -- Flex 2.01 Creating a view state -- Flex 2.01 Creating a state based on an existing state -- Flex 2.01 Setting a non-base state as the starting state -- Flex 2.01 Setting the initial state of a component -- Flex 2.01 Switching states at run time -- Flex 2.01 Modifying the appearance of existing states -- Flex 2.01 Deleting a view state -- Flex 2.01 Creating a transition -- Flex 2.01 Adding Interactivity with Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About Flex behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Creating a behavior for a component -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About the uses of custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components visually -- Flex 2.01 Designing components visually -- Flex 2.01 Rapidly editing custom MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Distributing custom components -- Flex 2.01 Programming Flex Applications Code Editing in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Understanding code editing in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About Flex Builder content assistance -- Flex 2.01 About Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Using Content Assist -- Flex 2.01 Getting help while writing code -- Flex 2.01 Navigating and organizing code -- Flex 2.01 Folding and unfolding code blocks -- Flex 2.01 Using the Outline view to navigate and inspect code -- Flex 2.01 Outline view in Class mode -- Flex 2.01 Outline view in MXML mode -- Flex 2.01 Using Quick Outline view in the editor -- Flex 2.01 Opening code definitions -- Flex 2.01 Browsing and opening types -- Flex 2.01 Showing line numbers -- Flex 2.01 Formatting code -- Flex 2.01 Organizing import statements -- Flex 2.01 Adding comment blocks -- Flex 2.01 Manually indenting code blocks -- Flex 2.01 Finding and replacing text in the editor -- Flex 2.01 About markers -- Flex 2.01 Navigating markers -- Flex 2.01 Adding tasks -- Flex 2.01 Completing and deleting tasks -- Flex 2.01 Adding and deleting bookmarks -- Flex 2.01 About syntax error checking -- Flex 2.01 Using the Problems view -- Flex 2.01 Code editing keyboard shortcuts -- Flex 2.01 Building Projects -- Flex 2.01 Understanding how projects are built -- Flex 2.01 Customizing project builds -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling automatic builds -- Flex 2.01 Setting a project's output folder -- Flex 2.01 Modifying a project's build path -- Flex 2.01 Advanced build options -- Flex 2.01 Building projects manually -- Flex 2.01 Saving project resources automatically -- Flex 2.01 Performing a clean build -- Flex 2.01 Changing the project build order -- Flex 2.01 Customizing builds with Apache Ant -- Flex 2.01 Publishing application source code -- Flex 2.01 Running and Debugging Applications -- Flex 2.01 Understanding running and debugging applications in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Running your applications -- Flex 2.01 Managing launch configurations -- Flex 2.01 Creating or editing a launch configuration -- Flex 2.01 Running the application SWF file in the stand-alone Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Changing the default web browser -- Flex 2.01 Debugging your applications -- Flex 2.01 Starting a debugging session -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing breakpoints -- Flex 2.01 Managing breakpoints in the Breakpoints view -- Flex 2.01 Managing the debugging session in the Debug view -- Flex 2.01 Using the Console view -- Flex 2.01 Managing variables in the Variables view -- Flex 2.01 Using the Expressions view -- Flex 2.01 Working with Data in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 About working with data in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Managing Flash Player security -- Flex 2.01 Flex Builder User Interface Reference -- Flex 2.01 Setting project properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project text encoding properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project compiler properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project application file properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex and ActionScript project build path properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex library project build path properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex server properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project builder properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting project references -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Builder views -- Flex 2.01 Components view -- Flex 2.01 Custom category -- Flex 2.01 Controls category -- Flex 2.01 Layout category -- Flex 2.01 Navigators category -- Flex 2.01 Charts category -- Flex 2.01 Flex Properties view -- Flex 2.01 Navigator view -- Flex 2.01 Outline view -- Flex 2.01 States view -- Flex 2.01 New State dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Edit State Properties dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Creating project resources -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New ActionScript Class dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New ActionScript Interface dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Setting the New MXML Component dialog box options -- Flex 2.01 Create Chart dialog box -- Flex 2.01 Setting editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting MXML editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting ActionScript editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting CSS editor preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting MXML Code Assist preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting ActionScript Code Assist preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting running and debugging preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting launch preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Run/Debug preferences -- Flex 2.01 Setting Flex debugging preferences -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 Developer's Guide Using Flex Programming Languages About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Developing Applications in MXML -- Flex 2.01 About MXML -- Flex 2.01 Writing a simple application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling MXML to SWF Files -- Flex 2.01 Developing applications -- Flex 2.01 Laying out a user interface using containers -- Flex 2.01 Adding user interface controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the id property with MXML tags -- Flex 2.01 Using XML namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Using MXML to trigger run-time code -- Flex 2.01 Binding data between components -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC services -- Flex 2.01 Storing data in a data model -- Flex 2.01 Validating data -- Flex 2.01 Formatting data -- Flex 2.01 Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) -- Flex 2.01 Using skins -- Flex 2.01 Using effects -- Flex 2.01 Defining custom MXML components -- Flex 2.01 MXML Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Basic MXML syntax -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript in Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Working with Flex components -- Flex 2.01 Comparing, including, and importing ActionScript code -- Flex 2.01 Including ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Importing classes and packages -- Flex 2.01 Techniques for separating ActionScript from MXML -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Performing object introspection -- Flex 2.01 Using Events -- Flex 2.01 About events -- Flex 2.01 About the Event flow -- Flex 2.01 About the Event class -- Flex 2.01 About the EventDispatcher class -- Flex 2.01 Using events -- Flex 2.01 Registering event handlers -- Flex 2.01 Defining event listeners inline -- Flex 2.01 Using the addEventListener() method -- Flex 2.01 Creating event handler classes -- Flex 2.01 Defining multiple listeners for a single event -- Flex 2.01 Registering a single listener with multiple components -- Flex 2.01 Passing additional parameters to listener functions -- Flex 2.01 Manually dispatching events -- Flex 2.01 Event propagation -- Flex 2.01 Event priorities -- Flex 2.01 Using event subclasses -- Flex 2.01 About keyboard events -- Flex 2.01 Handling keyboard events -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the keyCode and charCode properties -- Flex 2.01 Understanding KeyboardEvent precedence -- Flex 2.01 Handling keyboard-related MouseEvents -- Flex 2.01 Building User Interfaces for Flex Applications Using Flex Visual Components -- Flex 2.01 About visual components -- Flex 2.01 Class hierarchy for visual components -- Flex 2.01 Using the UIComponent class -- Flex 2.01 Commonly used UIComponent properties -- Flex 2.01 Using components in MXML and ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Configuring components: syntax summary -- Flex 2.01 Sizing visual components -- Flex 2.01 Handling events -- Flex 2.01 Using styles -- Flex 2.01 Using behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Applying skins -- Flex 2.01 Changing the appearance of a component at run time -- Flex 2.01 Extending components -- Flex 2.01 Using Data Providers and Collections -- Flex 2.01 About data providers and collections -- Flex 2.01 About collections -- Flex 2.01 Specifying data providers in MXML applications -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a simple data provider -- Flex 2.01 Using IList interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using ICollectionView interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using the IViewCursor interface -- Flex 2.01 Example: Updating an Array Using ICollectionView interface methods and properties -- Flex 2.01 Using events and update notifications -- Flex 2.01 Using collection change notifications -- Flex 2.01 Example: Modifying data in DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Using hierarchical data providers -- Flex 2.01 Data descriptors and hierarchical data provider structure -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom data descriptor -- Flex 2.01 Using an XML data provider -- Flex 2.01 Using remote data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using paged remote data providers. -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and Positioning Components -- Flex 2.01 About sizing and positioning -- Flex 2.01 Sizing components -- Flex 2.01 Determining and controlling component sizes -- Flex 2.01 Example: Determining an HBox container and child sizes -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex component sizing techniques -- Flex 2.01 Using percentage-based sizing -- Flex 2.01 Sizing containers and components toolbox -- Flex 2.01 Positioning and laying out controls -- Flex 2.01 Using absolute positioning -- Flex 2.01 Using constraint-based layout -- Flex 2.01 Using Controls -- Flex 2.01 About controls -- Flex 2.01 Working with controls -- Flex 2.01 Button control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Button control -- Flex 2.01 Skinning a Button control -- Flex 2.01 PopUpButton control -- Flex 2.01 ButtonBar and ToggleButtonBar controls -- Flex 2.01 LinkBar control -- Flex 2.01 TabBar control -- Flex 2.01 CheckBox control -- Flex 2.01 RadioButton control -- Flex 2.01 NumericStepper control -- Flex 2.01 DateChooser and DateField controls -- Flex 2.01 LinkButton control -- Flex 2.01 HSlider and VSlider controls -- Flex 2.01 SWFLoader control -- Flex 2.01 Image control -- Flex 2.01 Maintaining aspect ratio when sizing -- Flex 2.01 VideoDisplay control -- Flex 2.01 ColorPicker control -- Flex 2.01 Alert control -- Flex 2.01 ProgressBar control -- Flex 2.01 HRule and VRule controls -- Flex 2.01 ScrollBar control -- Flex 2.01 Using Text Controls -- Flex 2.01 About text controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the text property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying special characters in the text property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying special characters in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using the htmlText property -- Flex 2.01 Specifying HTML tags and text -- Flex 2.01 Specifying HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Escaping special characters in HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Using tags in HTML text -- Flex 2.01 Selecting and modifying text -- Flex 2.01 Modifying text -- Flex 2.01 Example: changing selected text in a RichTextEditor control -- Flex 2.01 Label control -- Flex 2.01 TextInput control -- Flex 2.01 Text control -- Flex 2.01 TextArea control -- Flex 2.01 RichTextEditor control -- Flex 2.01 Programming RichTextEditor subcontrols -- Flex 2.01 Using Menu-Based Controls -- Flex 2.01 About menu-based controls -- Flex 2.01 Defining menu structure and data -- Flex 2.01 Handling menu-based control events -- Flex 2.01 Menu control -- Flex 2.01 MenuBar control -- Flex 2.01 PopUpMenuButton control -- Flex 2.01 Using Data-Driven Controls -- Flex 2.01 List control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a List control -- Flex 2.01 Using a custom item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Alternating row colors in a List control -- Flex 2.01 List control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 HorizontalList control -- Flex 2.01 Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 TileList control -- Flex 2.01 ComboBox control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ComboBox control -- Flex 2.01 ComboBox control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Hiding and displaying columns -- Flex 2.01 Passing data to a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Handling events in a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Sorting data in DataGrid controls -- Flex 2.01 DataGrid control user interaction -- Flex 2.01 Tree control -- Flex 2.01 About Tree Controls -- Flex 2.01 Handling Tree control events -- Flex 2.01 Tree user interaction -- Flex 2.01 Introducing Containers -- Flex 2.01 About containers -- Flex 2.01 About container layout -- Flex 2.01 About layout containers and navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Using containers -- Flex 2.01 Flex containers -- Flex 2.01 Class hierarchy for containers -- Flex 2.01 Container example -- Flex 2.01 Using container events -- Flex 2.01 Event overview -- Flex 2.01 About the creation policy -- Flex 2.01 About the initialize and creationComplete events -- Flex 2.01 Disabling containers -- Flex 2.01 Using the Panel container -- Flex 2.01 Defining a default button -- Flex 2.01 Using scroll bars -- Flex 2.01 Using container scroll properties -- Flex 2.01 Scroll bar layout considerations -- Flex 2.01 Controlling scroll delay and interval -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex coordinates -- Flex 2.01 About the coordinate systems -- Flex 2.01 Creating and managing component instances at run time -- Flex 2.01 About the display list and container children -- Flex 2.01 Obtaining the number of child components in a container or application -- Flex 2.01 Accessing display-only children -- Flex 2.01 Creating and removing components at run time -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating and removing a child of an VBox container -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating and removing children of an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Controlling child order -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application Container -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing an Application container and its children -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the default Application container styles -- Flex 2.01 Viewing the application source code -- Flex 2.01 Specifying options of the Application container -- Flex 2.01 About the Application object -- Flex 2.01 About the Document object -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Document and Application object scopes -- Flex 2.01 Using the mx.core.Application.application property -- Flex 2.01 Using the parentDocument property -- Flex 2.01 Using the parentApplication property -- Flex 2.01 Showing the download progress of an application -- Flex 2.01 Disabling the download progress bar -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom progress bar -- Flex 2.01 Download progress bar events -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass of the DownloadProgressBar class -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass of Sprite -- Flex 2.01 Using Layout Containers -- Flex 2.01 About layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Canvas layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating and using a Canvas control -- Flex 2.01 Box, HBox, and VBox layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Box, HBox, or VBox container -- Flex 2.01 ControlBar layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ControlBar container -- Flex 2.01 ApplicationControlBar layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating an ApplicationControlBar container -- Flex 2.01 DividedBox, HDividedBox, and VDividedBox layout containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a DividedBox, HDividedBox, or VDividedBox container -- Flex 2.01 Using the dividers -- Flex 2.01 Using live dragging -- Flex 2.01 Form, FormHeading, and FormItem layout containers -- Flex 2.01 About forms -- Flex 2.01 Creating forms -- Flex 2.01 Creating the Form container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a FormHeading control -- Flex 2.01 Creating a FormItem container -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple form -- Flex 2.01 Laying out forms -- Flex 2.01 Aligning and spacing Form container children -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning Form container children -- Flex 2.01 Defining a default button -- Flex 2.01 Specifying required fields -- Flex 2.01 Storing and validating form data -- Flex 2.01 Using Form controls to hold your form data -- Flex 2.01 Validating form control contents data on user entry -- Flex 2.01 Using a Flex data model to store form data -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex validators with form models -- Flex 2.01 Populating a Form control from a data model -- Flex 2.01 Submitting data to a server -- Flex 2.01 Grid layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Grid layout container -- Flex 2.01 Setting the row and column span -- Flex 2.01 Panel layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Panel layout container -- Flex 2.01 Adding a ControlBar container to a Panel container -- Flex 2.01 Tile layout container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Tile layout container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning a child in a Tile container -- Flex 2.01 TitleWindow layout container -- Flex 2.01 Using the PopUpManager to create a TitleWindow container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Removing a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Using TitleWindow and PopUpManager events -- Flex 2.01 Centering a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Creating a modal pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Passing data to and from a pop-up window -- Flex 2.01 Using the addPopUp() method -- Flex 2.01 Using Navigator Containers -- Flex 2.01 About navigator containers -- Flex 2.01 ViewStack navigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing the children of a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors to a ViewStack container -- Flex 2.01 TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating a TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 Sizing the children of a TabNavigator container -- Flex 2.01 TabNavigator container Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 Accordion navigator container -- Flex 2.01 Creating an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Accordion container Keyboard navigation -- Flex 2.01 Using Button controls to navigate an Accordion container -- Flex 2.01 Handling child button events -- Flex 2.01 Controlling the appearance of accordion buttons -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the User Interface Using Behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About applying behaviors -- Flex 2.01 About factory and instance classes -- Flex 2.01 Available effects -- Flex 2.01 Available triggers -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Playing an effect backward -- Flex 2.01 Ending an effect -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable effect -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors in ActionScript using styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying behaviors using the Effect.target and Effect.targets properties -- Flex 2.01 Working with effects -- Flex 2.01 Setting effect durations -- Flex 2.01 Using embedded fonts with effects -- Flex 2.01 Creating composite effects -- Flex 2.01 Using the AnimateProperty effect -- Flex 2.01 Delaying effect start -- Flex 2.01 Repeating effects -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with the ViewStack and TabNavigator containers -- Flex 2.01 Using a sound effect -- Flex 2.01 Using a mask effect -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom mask function -- Flex 2.01 Handling effect events -- Flex 2.01 Suspending background processing -- Flex 2.01 Using an easing function -- Flex 2.01 Disabling container layout for effects -- Flex 2.01 Improving performance when resizing Panel containers -- Flex 2.01 Setting UIComponent.cachePolicy on the effect target -- Flex 2.01 Using Styles and Themes -- Flex 2.01 About styles -- Flex 2.01 Using styles in Flex -- Flex 2.01 External style sheets -- Flex 2.01 Setting global styles -- Flex 2.01 About style value formats -- Flex 2.01 Length format -- Flex 2.01 Time format -- Flex 2.01 Color format -- Flex 2.01 Using Arrays for style properties -- Flex 2.01 Using Cascading Style Sheets -- Flex 2.01 About style inheritance -- Flex 2.01 Style inheritance order -- Flex 2.01 Inheritance exceptions -- Flex 2.01 About supported styles -- Flex 2.01 About the themeColor property -- Flex 2.01 Using external style sheets -- Flex 2.01 Using local style definitions -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application type selector -- Flex 2.01 Using the global selector -- Flex 2.01 Using the StyleManager class -- Flex 2.01 Using the setStyle() and getStyle() methods -- Flex 2.01 Setting styles -- Flex 2.01 Improving performance with the setStyle() method -- Flex 2.01 Using inline styles -- Flex 2.01 Loading style sheets at run time -- Flex 2.01 Using filters in Flex -- Flex 2.01 About themes -- Flex 2.01 Using themes -- Flex 2.01 About the included theme files -- Flex 2.01 Creating a theme SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a theme style sheet -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a theme SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Using a configuration file to compile theme SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Using Fonts -- Flex 2.01 About fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using device fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Locating embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple typefaces -- Flex 2.01 About the font managers -- Flex 2.01 Setting character ranges -- Flex 2.01 Embedding double-byte fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts from SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flash 8 files with embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Embedding fonts from SWF files into Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Resolving compiler errors -- Flex 2.01 Resolving run-time errors -- Flex 2.01 Using Skins -- Flex 2.01 About skinning -- Flex 2.01 Graphical skinning -- Flex 2.01 Using style sheets to apply skins -- Flex 2.01 Applying skins inline -- Flex 2.01 Using the setStyle() method -- Flex 2.01 Using SWF files as skins -- Flex 2.01 Programmatic skinning -- Flex 2.01 Programmatic skins recipe -- Flex 2.01 Selecting a superclass -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the updateDisplayList() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing measuredWidth and measuredHeight getters -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a getter for the borderMetrics property -- Flex 2.01 Making properties styleable -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the parent component -- Flex 2.01 Compiling programmatic skins -- Flex 2.01 Drawing programmatically -- Flex 2.01 Applying programmatic skins -- Flex 2.01 Reskinning ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Creating themes -- Flex 2.01 Using Item Renderers and Item Editors -- Flex 2.01 About item renderers -- Flex 2.01 Default item rendering and cell editing -- Flex 2.01 Using custom item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Item renderer and item editor architecture -- Flex 2.01 About item renderer and item editor interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Application layout with item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer and item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using a drop-in item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using an inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using a component as an item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Using editable controls in an item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Setting the itemRenderer or itemEditor property in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About the item renderer and item editor life cycle -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the listData property -- Flex 2.01 Creating drop-in item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Using drop-in item renderers and item editors -- Flex 2.01 Requirements of a drop-in item renderers in a List control -- Flex 2.01 Creating inline item renderers and editors -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Creating a complex inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Items allowed in an inline component -- Flex 2.01 Using the <mx:Component> tag -- Flex 2.01 Defining the scope in an <mx:Component> tag -- Flex 2.01 Specifying a class name to the inline component -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable inline item renderer or item editor -- Flex 2.01 Creating item renderers and item editor components -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer component -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple item editor component -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the data property -- Flex 2.01 About using the creationComplete and dataChange events -- Flex 2.01 Creating an item renderer in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Working with item renderers -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with the TileList and HorizontalList controls -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer with a Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Working with Item Editors -- Flex 2.01 The cell editing process -- Flex 2.01 Creating an editable cell -- Flex 2.01 Returning data from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Defining a property to return data -- Flex 2.01 Sizing and positioning an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Making an item editor that responds to the Enter key -- Flex 2.01 Using the cell editing events -- Flex 2.01 Cell editing event classes -- Flex 2.01 Accessing cell data and the item editor in an event listener -- Flex 2.01 Determining the reason for an itemEditEnd event -- Flex 2.01 Item editor examples -- Flex 2.01 Example: Preventing a cell from being edited -- Flex 2.01 Example: Modifying data passed to or received from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Passing multiple values back from an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item renderer as an item editor -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a data validator in a custom item editor -- Flex 2.01 Examples using item editors with the list controls -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using an item editor with a DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom item editor with a List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom item editor with a Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 About ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Creating ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting styles in ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting the width of ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTip events -- Flex 2.01 Using ToolTips with NavBar controls -- Flex 2.01 Using the ToolTip Manager -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Setting delay times -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with ToolTips -- Flex 2.01 Using dynamic ToolTip text -- Flex 2.01 Using error tips -- Flex 2.01 Using the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 About the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 Using the Cursor Manager -- Flex 2.01 Creating and removing a cursor -- Flex 2.01 Using a busy cursor -- Flex 2.01 Setting a busy cursor -- Flex 2.01 Using the showBusyCursor property -- Flex 2.01 Localizing Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About localized Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Creating a localized application -- Flex 2.01 Using the ResourceBundle API -- Flex 2.01 Using localized properties files and ResourceBundle subclasses -- Flex 2.01 Creating the application SWF file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a localized SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Flex Programming Topics Dynamically Repeating Controls and Containers -- Flex 2.01 About Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Using the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Declaring the Repeater component in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Basic principles of the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Creating dynamic loops with the Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Referencing repeated components -- Flex 2.01 Referencing repeated child components -- Flex 2.01 Referencing nested Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Event handlers in Repeater components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing specific instances of repeated components -- Flex 2.01 Using a Repeater component in a custom MXML component -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically creating components based on data type -- Flex 2.01 How a Repeater component executes -- Flex 2.01 Considerations when using a Repeater component -- Flex 2.01 Using View States -- Flex 2.01 About view states -- Flex 2.01 Defining and applying view states -- Flex 2.01 Applying view states -- Flex 2.01 Defining view states -- Flex 2.01 Example: Login form application -- Flex 2.01 Creating a view state in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Setting component properties -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing components -- Flex 2.01 Setting event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Using view state events -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using view states with history management -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using view states with a custom item renderer -- Flex 2.01 Building applications by using view states -- Flex 2.01 Creating your own override classes -- Flex 2.01 Using Transitions -- Flex 2.01 About transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining multiple transitions -- Flex 2.01 Defining effect targets -- Flex 2.01 Defining the effect start and end values -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using transitions -- Flex 2.01 Handling events when using transitions -- Flex 2.01 Using action effects in a transition -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using action effects -- Flex 2.01 Filtering effects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a filter -- Flex 2.01 Defining a custom filter -- Flex 2.01 Writing a filter function -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using a custom effect filter -- Flex 2.01 Transition tips and troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Using the Drag and Drop Manager -- Flex 2.01 About the Drag and Drop Manager -- Flex 2.01 Using drag-and-drop with list-based controls -- Flex 2.01 Examples: List control -- Flex 2.01 Example: DataGrid control -- Flex 2.01 Example: Tree control -- Flex 2.01 Manually adding drag-and-drop support -- Flex 2.01 Programming a drag-and-drop operation -- Flex 2.01 Starting a drag-and-drop operation -- Flex 2.01 Writing the initiator event listener -- Flex 2.01 Handling drag-and-drop events -- Flex 2.01 Handling the dragEnter event -- Flex 2.01 Example: All drag-and-drop events -- Flex 2.01 Drag-and-drop techniques and considerations -- Flex 2.01 Embedding Assets -- Flex 2.01 About embedding assets -- Flex 2.01 Syntax for embedding assets -- Flex 2.01 Embedding asset types -- Flex 2.01 Embedding JPEG, GIF, and PNG images -- Flex 2.01 Embedding SVG images -- Flex 2.01 Embedding sounds -- Flex 2.01 Embedding SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Using scale-9 formatting with embedded images -- Flex 2.01 Creating Modular Applications -- Flex 2.01 Modular applications overview -- Flex 2.01 Creating modules -- Flex 2.01 Compiling modules -- Flex 2.01 Loading and unloading modules -- Flex 2.01 Using ModuleLoader events -- Flex 2.01 Using the History Manager -- Flex 2.01 About history management -- Flex 2.01 Using standard history management -- Flex 2.01 Using custom history management -- Flex 2.01 How the HistoryManager class saves and loads states -- Flex 2.01 Using history management in a custom wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Using history management without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using history management with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Printing -- Flex 2.01 About printing by using Flex classes -- Flex 2.01 Using the FlexPrintJob class -- Flex 2.01 Building and sending a print job -- Flex 2.01 Starting a print job -- Flex 2.01 Scaling a print job -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple print job -- Flex 2.01 Using a print-specific output format -- Flex 2.01 Example: A simple print-specific output format -- Flex 2.01 Printing multipage output -- Flex 2.01 Printing known-length multipage output -- Flex 2.01 Using the PrintDataGrid control for multipage grids -- Flex 2.01 Example: Printing with multipage PrintDataGrid controls -- Flex 2.01 Multipage print application file -- Flex 2.01 Print output component -- Flex 2.01 Header and footer files -- Flex 2.01 Communicating with the Wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About exchanging data with Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Passing request data to Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using the Application.application.parameters object -- Flex 2.01 Using flashVars -- Flex 2.01 Using query string parameters -- Flex 2.01 Accessing JavaScript functions from Flex -- Flex 2.01 Using the ExternalInterface API to access JavaScript from Flex -- Flex 2.01 Calling JavaScript methods from Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using the navigateToURL() method in Flex -- Flex 2.01 The navigateToURL() method syntax -- Flex 2.01 Opening multiple windows with the navigateToURL() method -- Flex 2.01 Calling JavaScript functions with the URLRequest object -- Flex 2.01 Invoking JavaScript with the navigateToURL() method -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Flex from JavaScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling multiple browser types -- Flex 2.01 Editing the Flex application's id and name properties -- Flex 2.01 Handling browsers that disable JavaScript -- Flex 2.01 About ExternalInterface API security in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Using Shared Objects -- Flex 2.01 About shared objects -- Flex 2.01 Creating a shared object -- Flex 2.01 Destroying shared objects -- Flex 2.01 SharedObject example -- Flex 2.01 Creating Accessible Applications -- Flex 2.01 Accessibility overview -- Flex 2.01 About screen reader technology -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Flex applications for accessibility -- Flex 2.01 Enabling accessibility in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Accessible components and containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating tab order and reading order -- Flex 2.01 Creating accessibility with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Accessibility for hearing-impaired users -- Flex 2.01 Testing accessible content -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Features Representing Data -- Flex 2.01 About data representation -- Flex 2.01 Binding Data -- Flex 2.01 About data binding -- Flex 2.01 Binding data with curly braces -- Flex 2.01 Binding data with the <mx:Binding> tag -- Flex 2.01 Using an E4X expression in an <mx:Binding> tag -- Flex 2.01 About the binding mechanism -- Flex 2.01 Defining bindings in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining binding watchers -- Flex 2.01 Considerations for using the binding feature -- Flex 2.01 Using binding for moving related data -- Flex 2.01 Storing Data -- Flex 2.01 About data models -- Flex 2.01 Defining a data model -- Flex 2.01 Specifying an external source for an <mx:Model> tag or <mx:XML> tag -- Flex 2.01 Using validators with a data model -- Flex 2.01 Using a data model as a value object -- Flex 2.01 Binding data into an XML data model -- Flex 2.01 Validating Data -- Flex 2.01 Validating data -- Flex 2.01 Using validators -- Flex 2.01 Triggering validation by using events -- Flex 2.01 Triggering validation programmatically -- Flex 2.01 Handling the return value of the validate() method -- Flex 2.01 Triggering the DateValidator and CreditCardValidator -- Flex 2.01 Invoking multiple validators in a function -- Flex 2.01 Creating a reusable validator -- Flex 2.01 Conditionalizing validator execution -- Flex 2.01 Validating required fields -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling a validator -- Flex 2.01 Using data binding to configure validators -- Flex 2.01 General guidelines for validation -- Flex 2.01 Working with validation errors -- Flex 2.01 Working with validation events -- Flex 2.01 Explicitly handling component validation events -- Flex 2.01 Explicitly handing validator validation events -- Flex 2.01 Using standard validators -- Flex 2.01 Using the CreditCardValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the CurrencyValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the DateValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the EmailValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the NumberValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the PhoneNumberValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the RegExpValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the SocialSecurityValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the StringValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Using the ZipCodeValidator class -- Flex 2.01 Formatting Data -- Flex 2.01 Using formatters -- Flex 2.01 Writing an error handler function -- Flex 2.01 Using the standard formatters -- Flex 2.01 Using the CurrencyFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the DateFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the NumberFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the PhoneFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Using the ZipCodeFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Data Access and Interconnectivity Accessing Server-Side Data -- Flex 2.01 About Flex data access -- Flex 2.01 About RPC services -- Flex 2.01 About the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About messaging -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Data Services with Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About service configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Data Service configuration file syntax -- Flex 2.01 Configuring message channels -- Flex 2.01 Configuring channel endpoints -- Flex 2.01 Serializing data -- Flex 2.01 Converting data from ActionScript to Java -- Flex 2.01 Converting data from Java to ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Providing legacy AMF serialization on a channel -- Flex 2.01 Converting from ActionScript to Schema and SOAP types for web services -- Flex 2.01 Using custom serialization -- Flex 2.01 Securing destinations -- Flex 2.01 Passing credentials from client-side components -- Flex 2.01 Basic authentication -- Flex 2.01 Custom authentication -- Flex 2.01 Configuring server-side service logging -- Flex 2.01 Working with session data -- Flex 2.01 Using software clustering -- Flex 2.01 Managing services -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom MBean for a custom ServiceAdapter class -- Flex 2.01 Using custom error handling -- Flex 2.01 About Data Services class loading -- Flex 2.01 Web-tier compiler class loading -- Flex 2.01 Data services class loading -- Flex 2.01 Using data services without the web-tier compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the factory mechanism -- Flex 2.01 Understanding RPC Components -- Flex 2.01 About RPC components -- Flex 2.01 Comparing the Flex RPC services feature to other technologies -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC Components -- Flex 2.01 Declaring an RPC component -- Flex 2.01 Using a service without server-side configuration -- Flex 2.01 Using an RPC component with a server-side destination -- Flex 2.01 Configuring a destination -- Flex 2.01 Calling a service -- Flex 2.01 Using explicit parameter passing -- Flex 2.01 Explicit parameter passing with RemoteObject and WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Explicit parameter passing with HTTPService tags -- Flex 2.01 Using parameter binding -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with RemoteObject components -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with HTTPService components -- Flex 2.01 Parameter binding with WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Setting properties for RemoteObject methods or WebService operations -- Flex 2.01 Calling services in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling service results -- Flex 2.01 Handling results as XML with the e4x result format -- Flex 2.01 Binding a service result to other objects -- Flex 2.01 Binding a result to an ArrayCollection object -- Flex 2.01 Binding a result to an XMLListCollection object -- Flex 2.01 Handling result and fault events -- Flex 2.01 Using a service with binding, validation, and event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Handling asynchronous calls to services -- Flex 2.01 Using features specific to RemoteObject components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing Java objects in the source path -- Flex 2.01 Reserved method names -- Flex 2.01 Using features specific to WebService components -- Flex 2.01 Reading WSDL documents -- Flex 2.01 RPC-oriented operations and document-oriented operations -- Flex 2.01 Stateful web services -- Flex 2.01 Working with SOAP headers -- Flex 2.01 Adding SOAP headers to web service requests -- Flex 2.01 Clearing SOAP headers -- Flex 2.01 Redirecting a web service to a different URL -- Flex 2.01 Configuring RPC Services -- Flex 2.01 Understanding destination configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring destination properties -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Proxy Service -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Flex Messaging -- Flex 2.01 About messaging -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Flex messaging architecture -- Flex 2.01 Using Flex Messaging -- Flex 2.01 Using messaging in a Flex application -- Flex 2.01 Working with Producer components -- Flex 2.01 Working with Consumer components -- Flex 2.01 Using subtopics -- Flex 2.01 Using a pair of Producer and Consumer components in an application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Message Service -- Flex 2.01 Understanding Message Service configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Message Service destinations -- Flex 2.01 Referencing message channels -- Flex 2.01 Setting network properties -- Flex 2.01 Setting server properties -- Flex 2.01 Referencing Message Service adapters -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the JMS adapter -- Flex 2.01 Using a remote JMS provider -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom Message Service adapter -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Flex Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About the Data Management Service feature -- Flex 2.01 Distributing Data in Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 Creating a distributed data application -- Flex 2.01 Mapping client-side objects to Java objects -- Flex 2.01 Handling data synchronization conflicts -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the Data Management Service -- Flex 2.01 About Data Management Service configuration -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Data Management Service destinations -- Flex 2.01 Working with data adapters -- Flex 2.01 Using the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Object types and relationships -- Flex 2.01 Using strong and anonymous types with the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Configuring a destination that uses the Java adapter -- Flex 2.01 Detecting changes to fill method results -- Flex 2.01 Using the fill-method and sync-method approach -- Flex 2.01 Using the Assembler interface approach -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file settings -- Flex 2.01 Using a Hibernate destination -- Flex 2.01 Supported Hibernate features -- Flex 2.01 Hibernate configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file settings -- Flex 2.01 Using the ActionScript object adapter -- Flex 2.01 Managing hierarchical collections -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a managed association -- Flex 2.01 Looking at a managed association example -- Flex 2.01 Implementing an object relationship in a fill method -- Flex 2.01 Pushing data changes from the server to clients -- Flex 2.01 Charting Components Introduction to Charts -- Flex 2.01 About charting -- Flex 2.01 Using the charting controls -- Flex 2.01 About the axes -- Flex 2.01 About charting events -- Flex 2.01 Creating charts in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining chart data -- Flex 2.01 Using chart data -- Flex 2.01 Types of chart data -- Flex 2.01 Using static Arrays as data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using collections as data providers -- Flex 2.01 Using an XML file as a data provider -- Flex 2.01 Randomly generating chart data -- Flex 2.01 Changing chart data at run time -- Flex 2.01 Chart Types -- Flex 2.01 Using area charts -- Flex 2.01 Using bar charts -- Flex 2.01 Using bubble charts -- Flex 2.01 Using candlestick charts -- Flex 2.01 Using column charts -- Flex 2.01 Using HighLowOpenClose charts -- Flex 2.01 Using line charts -- Flex 2.01 Using pie charts -- Flex 2.01 Using labels with PieChart controls -- Flex 2.01 Creating doughnut charts -- Flex 2.01 Creating exploding pie charts -- Flex 2.01 Using plot charts -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple data series -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple axes -- Flex 2.01 Formatting Charts -- Flex 2.01 Applying chart styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Applying CSS to chart controls -- Flex 2.01 Applying different styles to each series -- Flex 2.01 Using predefined axis style properties -- Flex 2.01 Using class selectors for axis styles -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles inline -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles by binding tag definitions -- Flex 2.01 Adding ChartElement objects -- Flex 2.01 Setting padding properties -- Flex 2.01 Working with axes -- Flex 2.01 About the CategoryAxis class -- Flex 2.01 About the NumericAxis class -- Flex 2.01 Adding axis titles -- Flex 2.01 Defining axis labels -- Flex 2.01 Rotating axis elements -- Flex 2.01 Setting ranges -- Flex 2.01 Formatting tick marks -- Flex 2.01 Formatting axis lines -- Flex 2.01 Using the minField property -- Flex 2.01 Using strokes -- Flex 2.01 Using fills -- Flex 2.01 Setting fills with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Using a gradient fill with chart controls -- Flex 2.01 Using different alpha values with a fill -- Flex 2.01 Using filters -- Flex 2.01 Adding grid lines -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with MXML -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with CSS -- Flex 2.01 Formatting grid lines with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using DataTips -- Flex 2.01 Showing multiple DataTips -- Flex 2.01 Customizing DataTip values -- Flex 2.01 Skinning ChartItem objects -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple renderer classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom renderers -- Flex 2.01 Creating graphical renderers -- Flex 2.01 Creating programmatic renderers -- Flex 2.01 Using Legend controls -- Flex 2.01 Adding a Legend control to your chart -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom Legend control -- Flex 2.01 Formatting the Legend control -- Flex 2.01 Setting the direction of legends -- Flex 2.01 Formatting the legend markers -- Flex 2.01 Stacking charts -- Flex 2.01 Using Events and Effects in Charts -- Flex 2.01 Handling user interactions with charts -- Flex 2.01 Using the HitData object -- Flex 2.01 Getting chart elements -- Flex 2.01 Getting data with coordinates -- Flex 2.01 Changing mouse sensitivity -- Flex 2.01 Disabling interactivity -- Flex 2.01 Using effects with charts -- Flex 2.01 Using standard effect triggers -- Flex 2.01 Using charting effect triggers -- Flex 2.01 Charting effects with data series -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesSlide effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesZoom effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the SeriesInterpolate effect -- Flex 2.01 Applying effects with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Building and Deploying Flex 2 Applications Building and Deploying Overview About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Flex Application Development -- Flex 2.01 About building and deploying applications -- Flex 2.01 Design phase -- Flex 2.01 Configure phase -- Flex 2.01 Build phase -- Flex 2.01 Deploy phase -- Flex 2.01 Secure phase -- Flex 2.01 About building applications for Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 About building applications for Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Before using Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Flex Application Structure -- Flex 2.01 Installation directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Development directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Flex file types -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Sharing assets among applications -- Flex 2.01 Sharing MXML and ActionScript files among applications -- Flex 2.01 Using a SWC file in a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Using an RSL in a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Services application directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Options for developing a Flex Data Services application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling an application -- Flex 2.01 About case sensitivity during a compile -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex 2 SDK application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex Builder application -- Flex 2.01 Compiling a Flex Data Services application -- Flex 2.01 Deployment directory structure -- Flex 2.01 Applying Flex Security -- Flex 2.01 Introduction -- Flex 2.01 Declarative compared to programmatic security -- Flex 2.01 Client security overview -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player security features -- Flex 2.01 About sandboxes -- Flex 2.01 Browser security -- Flex 2.01 Server security overview -- Flex 2.01 About J2EE security -- Flex 2.01 Deploying secure applications -- Flex 2.01 Securing JRun -- Flex 2.01 Loading assets -- Flex 2.01 Data compared to content -- Flex 2.01 Loading remote assets -- Flex 2.01 Using cross-domain policy files -- Flex 2.01 Loading local assets -- Flex 2.01 Using J2EE authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using container-based authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using authentication to control access to Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 Using RPC services -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to RPC services with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to RPC services without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using secured services -- Flex 2.01 Using data services -- Flex 2.01 Making other connections -- Flex 2.01 Using RTMP -- Flex 2.01 Using sockets -- Flex 2.01 Using the LocalConnection class -- Flex 2.01 Using SSL -- Flex 2.01 Using secure endpoints with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Using secure endpoints without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Writing secure Flex applications -- Flex 2.01 MXML tags with security restrictions -- Flex 2.01 Disabling viewSourceURL -- Flex 2.01 Remove sensitive information from SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Input validation -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Handling errors -- Flex 2.01 Suppressing debug output -- Flex 2.01 Using host-based authentication -- Flex 2.01 Using passwords -- Flex 2.01 Storing persistent data with the SharedObject class -- Flex 2.01 Configuring client security settings -- Flex 2.01 About the mm.cfg file -- Flex 2.01 About the mms.cfg file -- Flex 2.01 About FlashPlayerTrust files -- Flex 2.01 About the Settings Manager -- Flex 2.01 Other resources -- Flex 2.01 Optimizing Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About performance -- Flex 2.01 Improving client-side performance -- Flex 2.01 General guidelines -- Flex 2.01 Testing applications for performance -- Flex 2.01 Calculating application initialization time -- Flex 2.01 Calculating elapsed time -- Flex 2.01 Calculating memory usage -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the client environment -- Flex 2.01 Choosing the version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Disabling SpeedStep -- Flex 2.01 Changing timeout length -- Flex 2.01 Preventing client-side caching -- Flex 2.01 Using the JRun sniffer -- Flex 2.01 Reducing SWF file sizes -- Flex 2.01 Using the bytecode optimizer -- Flex 2.01 Disabling debugging -- Flex 2.01 Using strict mode -- Flex 2.01 Examining linker dependencies -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding initializing unused classes -- Flex 2.01 Externalizing assets -- Flex 2.01 Using character ranges for embedded fonts -- Flex 2.01 Using multiple SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Comparing dynamic and static linking -- Flex 2.01 Using RSLs to reduce SWF file size -- Flex 2.01 Application coding -- Flex 2.01 Object creation and destruction -- Flex 2.01 Using styles -- Flex 2.01 Working with containers -- Flex 2.01 Improving effect performance -- Flex 2.01 Improving rendering speed -- Flex 2.01 Using large data sets -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically repeating components -- Flex 2.01 Improving server-side performance -- Flex 2.01 Precompiling -- Flex 2.01 Using incremental compilation -- Flex 2.01 Disabling Express Install and player detection -- Flex 2.01 Disabling history management -- Flex 2.01 Tuning JVM heap sizes -- Flex 2.01 Caching -- Flex 2.01 Using headless servers -- Flex 2.01 Enabling production mode -- Flex 2.01 Improving Flex Charting component performance -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding filtering series data -- Flex 2.01 Coding the LinearAxis object -- Flex 2.01 Coding the CategoryAxis object -- Flex 2.01 Styling AxisRenderer objects -- Flex 2.01 Specifying gutter styles -- Flex 2.01 Using drop shadows -- Flex 2.01 Improving Startup Performance -- Flex 2.01 About startup performance -- Flex 2.01 About startup order -- Flex 2.01 Using deferred creation -- Flex 2.01 About the creationPolicy property -- Flex 2.01 Single-view containers -- Flex 2.01 Multiple-view containers -- Flex 2.01 Creating deferred components -- Flex 2.01 Using ordered creation -- Flex 2.01 Adding containers to the queue -- Flex 2.01 Setting queue order -- Flex 2.01 Dynamically adding containers to the queue -- Flex 2.01 Combining containers with different creationPolicy settings -- Flex 2.01 Using the callLater() method -- Flex 2.01 Building Flex Applications Building Overview -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex development tools -- Flex 2.01 Configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Compilers -- Flex 2.01 Debugger -- Flex 2.01 Loggers -- Flex 2.01 About application files -- Flex 2.01 Component classes -- Flex 2.01 SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Component libraries -- Flex 2.01 Runtime Shared Libraries -- Flex 2.01 Themes -- Flex 2.01 Resource bundles -- Flex 2.01 Other assets -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK and Flex Data Services Configuration -- Flex 2.01 About configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Applying license keys -- Flex 2.01 Root variables -- Flex 2.01 Configuration files layout -- Flex 2.01 About application and server verbiage -- Flex 2.01 Flex 2 SDK configuration -- Flex 2.01 Command-line compiler configuration -- Flex 2.01 JVM configuration -- Flex 2.01 Flex Data Services configuration -- Flex 2.01 Compiler configuration -- Flex 2.01 JVM configuration -- Flex 2.01 Data services configuration -- Flex 2.01 Servlet configuration -- Flex 2.01 Logging configuration -- Flex 2.01 Server-side caching configuration -- Flex 2.01 Production mode -- Flex 2.01 Configuring mappings -- Flex 2.01 Using virtual directories -- Flex 2.01 Changing the default application mapping -- Flex 2.01 Changing the context root -- Flex 2.01 Configuring directory browsing -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player configuration -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Compilers -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex compilers -- Flex 2.01 About the application compilers -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder application compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the mxmlc application compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the web-tier application compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the component compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the Flex Builder component compiler -- Flex 2.01 Using the compc component compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the command-line compilers -- Flex 2.01 Command-line syntax -- Flex 2.01 Using abbreviated option names -- Flex 2.01 Invoking the command-line compilers with Java -- Flex 2.01 About configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Locating configuration files -- Flex 2.01 Configuration file syntax -- Flex 2.01 About the root tag -- Flex 2.01 Getting the configuration file tags -- Flex 2.01 Understanding leaf nodes -- Flex 2.01 Using tokens -- Flex 2.01 Appending values -- Flex 2.01 About option precedence -- Flex 2.01 Using the application compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the application compiler options -- Flex 2.01 Basic example -- Flex 2.01 Adding metadata to SWF files -- Flex 2.01 Setting the file encoding -- Flex 2.01 Editing application settings -- Flex 2.01 Using SWC files -- Flex 2.01 About incremental compilation -- Flex 2.01 Using the component compiler -- Flex 2.01 About the component compiler options -- Flex 2.01 Compiling stand-alone components and classes -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components in packages -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components using namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Components in a single namespace -- Flex 2.01 Components in multiple namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Adding utility classes -- Flex 2.01 Adding nonsource classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating themes -- Flex 2.01 Viewing errors and warnings -- Flex 2.01 About SWC files -- Flex 2.01 About manifest files -- Flex 2.01 Using Runtime Shared Libraries -- Flex 2.01 About RSLs -- Flex 2.01 Creating libraries -- Flex 2.01 Using RSLs -- Flex 2.01 RSL example -- Flex 2.01 Logging -- Flex 2.01 About logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Determining Flash Player version in Flex -- Flex 2.01 Client-side logging and debugging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the debugger version of Flash Player to record trace() output -- Flex 2.01 Using the global trace() method -- Flex 2.01 Using the Logging API -- Flex 2.01 Using the Logging API with data services -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a custom logger with the Logging API -- Flex 2.01 Compiler logging -- Flex 2.01 Web-tier logging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring web application logging -- Flex 2.01 Configuring web-tier compiler logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the Command-Line Debugger -- Flex 2.01 About debugging -- Flex 2.01 Using the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Invoking the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session with the stand-alone debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session in a browser with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Starting a session in a browser without Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the command-line debugger -- Flex 2.01 Using the command-line debugger commands -- Flex 2.01 Running the debugger -- Flex 2.01 Setting breakpoints -- Flex 2.01 Accessing commands from a file -- Flex 2.01 Changing data values -- Flex 2.01 Viewing file contents -- Flex 2.01 Printing stack traces -- Flex 2.01 Getting status -- Flex 2.01 Handling faults -- Flex 2.01 Getting help -- Flex 2.01 Terminating the session -- Flex 2.01 Using ASDoc -- Flex 2.01 About the ASDoc tool -- Flex 2.01 Creating ASDoc comments -- Flex 2.01 Documenting ActionScript elements -- Flex 2.01 Documenting MXML files -- Flex 2.01 ASDoc tags -- Flex 2.01 Using the @see tag -- Flex 2.01 Summary of commonly used HTML elements -- Flex 2.01 Running the ASDoc tool -- Flex 2.01 Creating Applications for Testing -- Flex 2.01 Tasks and techniques for testable applications overview -- Flex 2.01 Compiling applications for testing -- Flex 2.01 Using run-time loading -- Flex 2.01 Creating testable applications -- Flex 2.01 Providing meaningful identification of objects -- Flex 2.01 Avoiding duplication of objects -- Flex 2.01 Coding containers -- Flex 2.01 Writing the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the automation framework -- Flex 2.01 About the IAutomationObjectHelper -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing initialization -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing recording -- Flex 2.01 Automated testing playback -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting events -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting existing events -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating a delegate class -- Flex 2.01 Using the class definitions file -- Flex 2.01 Setting the automationName property -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting composite components -- Flex 2.01 Example: Instrumenting the RandomWalk custom component -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting the RandomWalk custom component -- Flex 2.01 Instrumenting RandomWalk events -- Flex 2.01 Preparing RandomWalk for playback -- Flex 2.01 Adjusting event recording -- Flex 2.01 Adding checkpoints -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex Applications Deploying Flex Applications -- Flex 2.01 About deploying an application -- Flex 2.01 Deployment options -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex 2 SDK applications -- Flex 2.01 Deploying RSLs with Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 Deploying additional Flex files -- Flex 2.01 Accessing data services from a deployed application -- Flex 2.01 Deploying Flex Data Services applications -- Flex 2.01 Deploying the Flex Data Services web application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Compiling for deployment -- Flex 2.01 Deployment checklist -- Flex 2.01 Types of network access -- Flex 2.01 Step 1. Create a list of server-side resources -- Flex 2.01 Step 2. Verify access from server to server within your firewall -- Flex 2.01 Step 3. Verify access to your servers from outside the firewall -- Flex 2.01 Step 4. Configure the proxy server -- Flex 2.01 Step 5. Create a crossdomain policy file -- Flex 2.01 Creating a Wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the Flex Builder wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the wrapper generated by Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 About the HTML templates -- Flex 2.01 Creating a wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the HTML page -- Flex 2.01 About the JavaScript file -- Flex 2.01 Adding features to the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Customizing the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding Express Install to your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding history management to your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 About the <object> and <embed> tags -- Flex 2.01 Unsupported properties -- Flex 2.01 Requesting an MXML file without the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Using Express Install -- Flex 2.01 About Express Install -- Flex 2.01 Editing your wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Adding Express Install script to the wrapper -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the Express Install script -- Flex 2.01 Configuring Express Install on Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Alternatives to Express Install -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun Configuring JRun -- Flex 2.01 About JRun application servers -- Flex 2.01 Limitations of the JRun application server -- Flex 2.01 About the default web applications -- Flex 2.01 Starting and stopping JRun servers -- Flex 2.01 Adding and removing servers -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun servers -- Flex 2.01 Changing port numbers -- Flex 2.01 Creating a web application -- Flex 2.01 Configuring the hot-deploy feature -- Flex 2.01 Using virtual directories -- Flex 2.01 Enabling and disabling directory browsing -- Flex 2.01 Configuring JRun logging -- Flex 2.01 Using the sniffer -- Flex 2.01 Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components Creating Custom Flex Components About Flex Documentation -- Flex 2.01 Creating Flex Components -- Flex 2.01 About creating components -- Flex 2.01 The Flex class hierarchy -- Flex 2.01 Customizing existing Flex components -- Flex 2.01 The relationship between MXML components and ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Deciding to create components in MXML or ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Creating new components -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Deploying components -- Flex 2.01 Where to go from here -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript to Create Components -- Flex 2.01 Using ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Using the package statement -- Flex 2.01 Using the import statement -- Flex 2.01 Using the class statement -- Flex 2.01 Defining the constructor -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties as variables -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties as getters and setters -- Flex 2.01 Defining methods -- Flex 2.01 Using the super keyword in a method override -- Flex 2.01 About scope -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Events -- Flex 2.01 About events -- Flex 2.01 Using an event object -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching custom events -- Flex 2.01 Creating a subclass from the Event class -- Flex 2.01 Using the Event metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching an event -- Flex 2.01 Creating static constants for the Event.type property -- Flex 2.01 Using Metadata Tags in Custom Components -- Flex 2.01 About metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 Using metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 Metadata tags -- Flex 2.01 ArrayElementType metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Bindable metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 DefaultProperty metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Effect metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Event metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 IconFile metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Inspectable metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 InstanceType metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 NonCommittingChangeEvent metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Style metadata tag -- Flex 2.01 Compiling Components -- Flex 2.01 About compiling -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components with Flex 2 SDK -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as MXML and ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as SWC files -- Flex 2.01 Distributing components as RSLs -- Flex 2.01 Example: Compiling a custom formatter component -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as an ActionScript file -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as a SWC file -- Flex 2.01 Distributing a component as an RSL file -- Flex 2.01 Compiling components with Flex Data Services -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML Components Creating Simple MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating MXML components -- Flex 2.01 MXML components and ActionScript classes -- Flex 2.01 Creating composite MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Scoping in custom components -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles to your custom component -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles from the custom component -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles from the referencing file -- Flex 2.01 Applying a type selector to the root tag of a custom component -- Flex 2.01 Creating Advanced MXML Components -- Flex 2.01 About reusable MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Adding custom properties and methods to a component -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties and methods in MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties and methods in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties by using setters and getters -- Flex 2.01 Defining inspectable properties -- Flex 2.01 Supporting data binding in custom properties -- Flex 2.01 Passing references to properties of MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Accessing the Application object -- Flex 2.01 Passing a reference to the component -- Flex 2.01 Passing a reference to the calling component -- Flex 2.01 Working with events -- Flex 2.01 Handling events from simple MXML components -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom events -- Flex 2.01 Handling events from composite components -- Flex 2.01 About interfaces -- Flex 2.01 About implementing IMXMLObject -- Flex 2.01 Creating ActionScript Components Creating Simple Visual Components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a simple component -- Flex 2.01 Adding properties and methods to a component -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Accessing public properties in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties as variables -- Flex 2.01 Defining public properties by using getter and setter methods -- Flex 2.01 Creating a default property -- Flex 2.01 Making properties accessible in Flex Builder -- Flex 2.01 Using data binding with custom properties -- Flex 2.01 Defining a method override -- Flex 2.01 Initializing inherited properties with tag attributes in MXML -- Flex 2.01 Defining events in ActionScript components -- Flex 2.01 Handling predefined events within the component -- Flex 2.01 Dispatching custom events -- Flex 2.01 Applying styles to custom components -- Flex 2.01 Creating Advanced Visual Components in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 About creating advanced components -- Flex 2.01 About overriding protected UIComponent methods -- Flex 2.01 About the invalidation methods -- Flex 2.01 About the component instantiation life cycle -- Flex 2.01 About the steps for creating a component -- Flex 2.01 About interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the component -- Flex 2.01 Basic component structure -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the constructor -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the createChildren() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the commitProperties() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the measure() method -- Flex 2.01 Calculating default sizes -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the layoutChrome() method -- Flex 2.01 Implementing the updateDisplayList() method -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the layout mechanism of the VBox container -- Flex 2.01 Drawing graphics in your component -- Flex 2.01 Making components accessible -- Flex 2.01 Adding version numbers -- Flex 2.01 Best practices when designing a component -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a composite component -- Flex 2.01 Example: Composite component -- Flex 2.01 Defining event listeners for composite components -- Flex 2.01 Creating the ModalText component -- Flex 2.01 Troubleshooting -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Style Properties -- Flex 2.01 About styles -- Flex 2.01 About inheritance in Cascading Style Sheets -- Flex 2.01 About setting styles -- Flex 2.01 About overriding the styleChanged() method -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating style properties -- Flex 2.01 Defining a style property -- Flex 2.01 Setting default style values -- Flex 2.01 Defining a style property for a skin -- Flex 2.01 Creating Template Components -- Flex 2.01 About template components -- Flex 2.01 Implementing a template component -- Flex 2.01 Using general data types in a template component -- Flex 2.01 Using IDeferredInstance in a template component -- Flex 2.01 Defining properties using the IDeferredInstance interface -- Flex 2.01 Creating Nonvisual Flex Components Creating Custom Formatters -- Flex 2.01 Creating a custom formatter -- Flex 2.01 Creating a simple formatter -- Flex 2.01 Handling errors in formatters -- Flex 2.01 Using the SwitchSymbolFormatter class -- Flex 2.01 Extending a Formatter class -- Flex 2.01 Creating Custom Validators -- Flex 2.01 Validating data by using custom validators -- Flex 2.01 About overriding the doValidation() method -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a simple validator -- Flex 2.01 Example: Validating multiple fields -- Flex 2.01 Creating Effects -- Flex 2.01 About creating a custom effect -- Flex 2.01 Defining factory and instance classes -- Flex 2.01 About the effect base classes -- Flex 2.01 About implementing your effects classes -- Flex 2.01 Example: Defining a simple effect -- Flex 2.01 Example: Passing parameters to effects -- Flex 2.01 About tween effects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a tween effect -- Flex 2.01 Writing an effect for a transition -- Flex 2.01 Defining the default values for a transition effect -- Flex 2.01 Using the propertyChanges property -- Flex 2.01 How Flex initializes the propertyChanges property -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a transition effect -- Flex 2.01 Defining a custom effect trigger -- Flex 2.01 Overriding the initEffect() method -- Flex 2.01 Programming ActionScript 3.0 Overview of ActionScript Programming About This Manual -- Flex 2.01 Using this manual -- Flex 2.01 Accessing ActionScript documentation -- Flex 2.01 Developer Center -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 About ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Advantages of ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 What's new in ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 Core language features -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player API features -- Flex 2.01 Compatibility with previous versions -- Flex 2.01 Getting Started with ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 The basic ActionScript development process -- Flex 2.01 Options for organizing your code -- Flex 2.01 Storing code in frames in a Flash timeline -- Flex 2.01 Embedding code in Flex MXML files -- Flex 2.01 Storing code in ActionScript files -- Flex 2.01 Example: Creating a basic application -- Flex 2.01 Designing your ActionScript application -- Flex 2.01 Creating the HelloWorld project and the Greeter class -- Flex 2.01 Adding code to the Greeter class -- Flex 2.01 Creating an application that uses your ActionScript code -- Flex 2.01 Publishing and testing your ActionScript application -- Flex 2.01 Enhancing the HelloWorld application -- Flex 2.01 Running subsequent examples -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript Language and Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Language overview -- Flex 2.01 Objects and classes -- Flex 2.01 Packages and namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Packages -- Flex 2.01 Namespaces -- Flex 2.01 Variables -- Flex 2.01 Data types -- Flex 2.01 Type checking -- Flex 2.01 Dynamic classes -- Flex 2.01 Data type descriptions -- Flex 2.01 Type conversions -- Flex 2.01 Syntax -- Flex 2.01 Operators -- Flex 2.01 Conditionals -- Flex 2.01 Looping -- Flex 2.01 Functions -- Flex 2.01 Basic function concepts -- Flex 2.01 Function parameters -- Flex 2.01 Functions as objects -- Flex 2.01 Function scope -- Flex 2.01 Object-Oriented Programming in ActionScript -- Flex 2.01 Classes -- Flex 2.01 Class definitions -- Flex 2.01 Class property attributes -- Flex 2.01 Variables -- Flex 2.01 Methods -- Flex 2.01 Enumerations with classes -- Flex 2.01 Embedded asset classes -- Flex 2.01 Interfaces -- Flex 2.01 Inheritance -- Flex 2.01 Advanced topics -- Flex 2.01 Example: GeometricShapes -- Flex 2.01 Display Programming -- Flex 2.01 Understanding the display architecture -- Flex 2.01 Core display classes -- Flex 2.01 Advantages of the ActionScript 3.0 display list approach -- Flex 2.01 Working with display objects -- Flex 2.01 Basics for working with the core display classes -- Flex 2.01 Drawing vector graphics -- Flex 2.01 Working with text -- Flex 2.01 Loading content dynamically -- Flex 2.01 Controlling ActionScript 3.0 movie clips -- Flex 2.01 Creating and manipulating bitmaps -- Flex 2.01 Working with SimpleButton objects -- Flex 2.01 Working with video -- Flex 2.01 Example: SpriteArranger -- Flex 2.01 Core ActionScript 3.0 Data Types and Classes Working with Dates and Times -- Flex 2.01 Managing calendar dates and times -- Flex 2.01 Controlling time intervals -- Flex 2.01 Example: Simple analog clock -- Flex 2.01 Working with Strings -- Flex 2.01 Creating strings -- Flex 2.01 The length property -- Flex 2.01 Working with characters in strings -- Flex 2.01 Comparing strings -- Flex 2.01 Obtaining string representations of other objects -- Flex 2.01 Concatenating strings -- Flex 2.01 Finding substrings and patterns in strings -- Flex 2.01 Converting strings between uppercase and lowercase -- Flex 2.01 Example: ASCII Art -- Flex 2.01 Working with Arrays -- Flex 2.01 Indexed arrays -- Flex 2.01 Associative arrays -- Flex 2.01 Multidimensional arrays -- Flex 2.01 Cloning arrays -- Flex 2.01 Advanced Topics -- Flex 2.01 Example: PlayList -- Flex 2.01 Handling Errors -- Flex 2.01 Types of errors -- Flex 2.01 Error handling in ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript 3.0 error handling elements -- Flex 2.01 Error handling strategies -- Flex 2.01 Working with the debugger version of Flash Player -- Flex 2.01 Handling synchronous errors in an application -- Flex 2.01 Creating custom error classes -- Flex 2.01 Responding to error events and status -- Flex 2.01 Comparing the Error classes -- Flex 2.01 ECMAScript core Error classes -- Flex 2.01 ActionScript core Error classes -- Flex 2.01 flash.error package Error classes -- Flex 2.01 Example: CustomErrors application -- Flex 2.01 Using Regular Expressions -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to Regular Expressions -- Flex 2.01 Regular expression syntax -- Flex 2.01 Creating an instance of a regular expression -- Flex 2.01 Characters, metacharacters, and metasequences -- Flex 2.01 Character classes -- Flex 2.01 Quantifiers -- Flex 2.01 Alternation -- Flex 2.01 Groups -- Flex 2.01 Flags and properties -- Flex 2.01 Methods for using regular expressions with strings -- Flex 2.01 Example: A Wiki parser -- Flex 2.01 Working with XML -- Flex 2.01 A quick introduction to XML -- Flex 2.01 The E4X approach to XML processing -- Flex 2.01 XML objects -- Flex 2.01 XMLList objects -- Flex 2.01 Initializing XML variables -- Flex 2.01 Assembling and transforming XML objects -- Flex 2.01 Traversing XML structures -- Flex 2.01 Using XML namespaces -- Flex 2.01 XML type conversion -- Flex 2.01 Reading external XML documents -- Flex 2.01 Example: Loading RSS data from the Internet -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player APIs Flash Player API Overview -- Flex 2.01 Handling Events -- Flex 2.01 Introduction to Event Handling -- Flex 2.01 How ActionScript 3.0 event handling differs from earlier versions -- Flex 2.01 The event flow -- Flex 2.01 Event objects -- Flex 2.01 Event listeners -- Flex 2.01 Example: Alarm Clock -- Flex 2.01 Networking and Communication -- Flex 2.01 Working with external data -- Flex 2.01 Connecting to other Flash Player instances -- Flex 2.01 Socket connections -- Flex 2.01 Storing local data -- Flex 2.01 Working with file upload and download -- Flex 2.01 Example: Building a Telnet client -- Flex 2.01 Example: Uploading and downloading files -- Flex 2.01 Working with Geometry -- Flex 2.01 Using Point objects -- Flex 2.01 Using Rectangle objects -- Flex 2.01 Using Matrix objects -- Flex 2.01 Example: Applying a matrix transformation to a display object -- Flex 2.01 Client System Environment -- Flex 2.01 System class -- Flex 2.01 Capabilities class -- Flex 2.01 ApplicationDomain class -- Flex 2.01 IME class -- Flex 2.01 Example: Detecting system capabilities -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player Security -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player Security overview -- Flex 2.01 Overview of permission controls -- Flex 2.01 Security sandboxes -- Flex 2.01 Restricting networking APIs -- Flex 2.01 Full-screen mode security -- Flex 2.01 Loading content -- Flex 2.01 Cross-scripting -- Flex 2.01 Accessing loaded media as data -- Flex 2.01 Loading data -- Flex 2.01 Loading embedded content from SWF files imported into a security domain -- Flex 2.01 Working with legacy content -- Flex 2.01 Setting LocalConnection permissions -- Flex 2.01 Controlling access to scripts in a host web page -- Flex 2.01 Shared objects -- Flex 2.01 Camera, microphone, Clipboard, mouse, and keyboard access -- Flex 2.01 Printing -- Flex 2.01 What's new for the PrintJob class using ActionScript 3.0 -- Flex 2.01 Printing a page -- Flex 2.01 Flash Player tasks and system printing -- Flex 2.01 Setting size, scale, and orientation -- Flex 2.01 Example: Multiple-page printing -- Flex 2.01 Example: Scaling, cropping, and responding -- Flex 2.01 Using the External API -- Flex 2.01 About the External API -- Flex 2.01 Using the ExternalInterface class -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using the External API with a web page container -- Flex 2.01 Example: Using the External API with an ActiveX container -- Flex 2.01