5. Working with Pages and States

Lesson Overview

Rich Internet applications are engaging, informative, relevant, and fresh. They pack lots of dynamic content into very limited screen space. A common goal is to keep the interface simple, yet filled with information that’s easy to locate, and even easier to navigate. This is done by carefully organizing your application into just a few meaningful pages or views. Then within each of those pages, you present large amounts of content using interactive components—windows, menus, lists, or panels that expand, collapse, flip, or morph in some way to show and hide information at just the right moment. In Flash Catalyst, this organization begins with pages and states.

In this lesson, you’ll learn how ...

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