Chapter 18. Adobe® Flex™ 2 and Rich Internet Applications

 

Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing.

 
 --Eda Le Shan
 

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air.

 
 --Charlotte Brontë
 

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

 
 --F. Scott Fitzgerald
 

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

 
 --Dante
 

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

 
 --Joseph Addison

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • What Flex is and what it’s used for.

  • How to design user interfaces in Flex’s user interface markup language, MXML.

  • How to embed multimedia in a ...

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