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Flex 3 Cookbook
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Chapter 16: Charting
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The best way to show off a powerful new technology is to demonstrate real-world
results with it, and that's exactly what Adobe and O'Reilly have done with Flex
3.
Through it's Flex Cookbook website, Adobe invited users of the Flex 3 beta to
post their own solutions for working with this technology, using O'Reilly's popular
problem-solution-discussion format. Website monitors (and authors) Joshua Noble
and Todd Anderson chose the most useful solutions for Flex 3 Cookbook.
This highly practical book contains more than 200 proven recipes for developing
interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites, including several contributed
by Noble, Anderson, and other Flex experts. You'll find everything from Flex basics
and working with menus and controls, to methods for compiling, deploying, and
configuring Flex applications.
Each recipe features a discussion of how and why it works, and many of them offer
sample code that you can put to use immediately. Topics include:
- Menus and controls
- Containers and dialogues
- Working with Text
- List, tiles, trees, and repeaters
- DataGrid and Advanced DataGrid
- Renderers
- Images, videos, and sounds
- CSS and skinning
- Building components
- States and effects
- Collections, arrays, and DataProviders
- DataBinding
- Validation/formatters
- Charting and data visualization
- State management, SharedObjects and LocalConnection
- Working with services and ServerSide communication
- Working with XML
- Communicating with the browser
- Application development strategies
- Runtime and dynamic shared libraries and modules
- Working with Adobe AIR
Whether you're a committed Flex developer, or still evaluating the technology,
you'll discover how to get quick results with Flex 3 using these these recipes.
Now that Flex is an open source framework, the user community will continue
to supply solutions to extend and improve the technology. This Cookbook offers
you the cream of the crop.
About the Author
Joshua Noble is a development consultant with Schematic. He's worked with various
clients, employers, friends, and combinations of the three for the past 4 years
using C#, Actionscript 2 and 3, ASP.NET, MSSQL Server, MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on
Rails, Java, XHTML/CSS, PHP, and C. He used to teach at Boston's School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, and he co-authored Actionscript 3.0 Bible. He also speaks
at industry conferences.
Noble's studies have included linguistics, math, formal logic, cognitive science,
and poetry. He started programming by trying to build interactive installations
using motion detection and image analysis, along the way teaching himself basic
electronics, hardware, how to use OpenCV, Processing, some OpenGL, and some
real-time rendering techniques. His current focus is in building websites and
working with rapid development tools like Rails and Flex, playing with Apache
and Lighttpd, drawing pictures, and thinking about how to make nice simple web
sites and applications that do what they're supposed to and are nice to be around.
Topics of special interest to him these days are Ruby, Linux, image analysis,
AI, Erlang, parallel processing, and data visualization.
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