Beginning Adobe Flex Tutorial: Your First Flex Program Part II

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Adobe Flex 3 is a development environment used to create both windows and desktop applications that can be run on Windows, Mac or Linux systems. Adobe Flex is used to create programs with Actionscript 3 and MXML. It is perfect for Rich Internet Application Development and is easy to learn-- especially if you already know HTML or Actionscript programming. Adobe Flex 3 is similar to Flash, but the environment uses a screens metaphor instead of timeline metaphor for development.

This tutorial takes you through developing your very first interactive application in Adobe Flex. The tutorial is in two parts. This is part two of two.

If you'd like to see a written version of this tutorial it's available on LearnToProgram.TV's web site (www.LearnToProgram.TV). Please feel free to share this tutorial with others.

This video is hosted by long time corporate technical trainer Mark Lassoff. In the tutorial Lassoff will guide you through creating three controls in 'code' mode and compiling and running your first Flash application.

If you are interested in a full course on Adobe Flex, please contact LearnToProgram.TV.

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[ncdangale112]

Hello, I'm currently studying how to use Adobe Flash in college and I was recommended to look into Flex and Air by a friend, since he said it was more smart phone-friendly when making applications for, say, an iPhone for instance. I watched these tutorials and they were great! So thanks for the input, but I wanted to know, can you program things in the Flex "design" pane, or is that just to show the end result? Cause i want to know if it's more like Flash in that sense... Thanks again!

[LearnToProgramDotTV]

@ncdangale112 Flex (which is now called Flash Builder) is essentially the same thing as Flash-- just from a programmers perspective. Flash has an animation perspective, and Flex shows you a view optimized for a programmer. Almost anything that you can do in Flex you can do in Flash and vice-versa. AIR- The Adobe Integrated Runtime is a viewer that allows you to play Flash/Flex movies on the desktop. Good luck.

[firesoul7468]

I did this just for a desktop appilcation, how do i actually put this onto my desktop??

[LearnToProgramDotTV]

Are you talking about making an AIR application that runs on the desktop, or just putting it on the desktop for testing. If you selected a desktop application when you first created the project in Flex it should automatically open a window on the desktop for testing.

[kingshinigami1989]

can u make more tutorials on flex please?

[kleanchap]

Thank you for this nice tutorial!

[ApacheOmega2012]

can you make more flex on Java videos please

[Marvelus2009]

Thank you sir

[izvarzone]

Is it possible to make it work without onclick function? In html it is considered bad practice to use onclick, how it's in AS3?

[inc2000glw]

press me lol

[N1mro8]

Can you make some flash builder tutorials (flex 4)? because the layout tag doesn't work in there

[renet123]

This is a good tutorial. Thank you for making it. The only thing lacking for the 'noob' is the - "now what"? like how do i call it from the web browser? Do i compile a swf file?

[mukiag20]

@BeyondDGrave he did d same.. had he done d above the flex compiler must have issued a compiler error.. Moreover the syntax is similar to the print() function we have in java..