The 6th part of Rob Adams tutorial “Designing for Flex”

Topics covered:

- The differences between motion design in Flex applications and motion design in other mediums.
- How to use motion to leverage users’ instinctual understanding of the physical world to enhance your application’s usability.
- How to use screen to screen transitions to help guide users to the next area of interest and make it clear how to return.
- How to use motion effects to provide feedback and focus your users’ attention.

Adobe Devloper Center

Tutorial to create a login system with Adobe Flex and PHP.

Part 1 - Creating the GUI
Part 2 - Programming the GUI
Part 3 - The PHP Backend
Part 4 - View States and Special Effects

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Integrate Flex SWF in XUL and develop a cool Firefox extension.

Details here

Get to read this Note19.com article on how to embed Google Maps in your Flex application.

Cool tip.

Take a look at Mark Niemann-Ross article at Adobe Developer Center showing a trick to create a custom component based on the Flex checkbox component.

“Designing content displays” is the title for 5th chapter of the Designing for Flex article at Adobe Developer Center by Rob Adams.

This chapter covers:

- Information design – designing applications around their content.
- How to design interfaces that allow users to navigate content.
- How to design interfaces that allow users to manipulate content.
- How to provide feedback on user actions in a content-focused interface.
- How to employ standard controls in a content-focused interface.
- How to design controls so that they don’t take focus away from the content.

Get your hands on the full article here.

Adobe Develoer Center article by Samuel Asher Rivello about how to combine the strengths of the Stage, timeline, and library in Flash CS3 Professional with the Flex 3 ActionScript 3.0 editor.

Acrobat Connect eSeminar (55:30 min.).

All source code available.

Create a simple Flex3(ActionScript 3) Application that utilises webservicesx’s GeoIPService WebService and the system.Capabilities class to collect user information, and then display the user’s country on a Yahoo Maps Mashup.

Via LibLab

Full code here.

Objectives:
• Understand the capabilities of the DataGrid control.
• Use data structures to populate a DataGrid control.
• Customize the columns of a DataGrid control.
• Use a function to format the DataGrid columns.
• Customize DataGrid columns using item renderers and item editors.
• Use the TileList and HorizontalList with item renderers.
• Retrieve data using the change event in conjunction with the
selectedItem property.

Topics:
• Using the DataGrid control
• Specifying DataGrid columns
• Formatting DataGrid columns
• Using item renderers and item editors

Devnet

Switch on the code tutorial where you will build XML data using Flex’s built in classes and then send the data over to PHP to be handled however you would like.

In this Adobe Developer Center article Todd Prekaski from Simplified Chaos will show you a technique to set up your Flex Builder 3 workspace and organize your code to output both a Flex web and desktop Adobe AIR application from the same code base.

Learn how to publish and broadcast an Audio and/or Video Stream using FMS (Flash Media Server) and Flex.

FLEXing My Muscle

Great Andrew Muller article explaining how to create a Flickr upload with Adobe AIR and Flex 3.

tdotblog.info tutorial explaining how to read and write to xml files using AIR and Flex.

asfusion.com has a great tutorial on how to customize your Flex buttons. Take a look at his great article.

Rich Tretola article at dobe Developer Center that focuses on taking a Flex application and deploying it as an Adobe AIR application to the desktop. The new application will add some features specific to Adobe AIR but will also continue to share parts of the original Flex application.

Take a look at this article by Daniel Williams at PHPBuilder.com. Good start for those who want to become familiar with Flex, Eclipse and PHP.

Using Yahoo ASTRA Map API with Flex 2.

- Building an expense tracker on the new Adobe AIR HTML security model
- Introducing Adobe AIR for Ajax developers
- Flickr Floater: Building an Adobe AIR application with Flex 3
- Introducing Adobe AIR for Flex Developers
- Adobe AIR Developer Derby winners
- Insult Dueler: Building a Flash game on Adobe AIR
- Introducing Adobe AIR for Flash developers
- Building eBay Desktop on Adobe AIR: What we learned along the way
- Breathing new life into Adobe Flash development with Adobe AIR
- Breaking down the on AIR bus tour Starbucks locator
- Recreating MapCache on Adobe AIR