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Adobe Flex

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.

Sample Apps

• Simple drag'n'drop example app. Hopefully useful for GUI design.

• Dashboard application (i.e., "pods").

Scripts

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• Filtering ArrayCollections.
• Multiple field filtering of ArrayCollections: by extending the ArrayCollection class, or without extending the class.

• Converting XML to an ArrayCollection: CodeJockey's Corner,Hillel Coren.
• Simple script to connect Flex to a MySQL database. (Zabeen: though I haven't got it to work yet!!)

Useful Links

From Adobe

• Download the free trial, then upgrade to full version via this link.
• Animated Overview of how Flex applications work.
• Getting started on Flex. Tutorials.
• Learn Flex in a week. Video training.
• Flex Developer Center
• Tour de Flex - recommended.

Graphics

• Degrafa - Graphic classes for Flex.
• Complex rectangles using the GraphicsUtil class.

Other

• A short, "Hello World"-type video tutorial: Part 1, Part 2.