Flex 3:Feature Introductions

Flex 3:Feature Introductions

From Adobe Labs

 

Welcome to the Adobe® Flex™ 3 Beta 1 release!

We're excited to show you many of the new features included in this release. The Flex engineering team has put together a set of introductions to the features that they worked on. For each feature there will be either a video or a text description of a feature. Some of these will include references to sample code or assets that you may download to play with yourself. Some of the videos are hosted on the video.onflex.org site.


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Designer/Developer Workflow


Enhanced Constraints

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-Constraints.jpg Learn about additions to the constraint system to support more complex layouts.

Writeup     Samples


Skinning Import Wizards

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-SkinningImport.png Learn to import assets from CS3 tools into projects via Flex Builder.

Video     Sample Skin Images     Developer Center article on creating skins


Styling Property Inspector

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-CSSPI.png See a sneak peak of the new property inspector for editing stylesheets.

Writeup


Visual CSS Editor

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-CSSEditor.png See the new design view support for stylesheets.

Video     Sample themes from ScaleNine


Working with Data


Advanced DataGrid

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-AdvancedDataGrid.png Learn about the new Advanced DataGrid component.

Video (9 mins)     Writeup     Samples


Charting Enhancements

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-ChartingEnhancements.png See the enhancements added to the popular charting package.

Video (22 mins)     Writeup     Samples


Introductory Data Wizards

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-DatabaseWizard.png Learn about the new wizards for connecting Flex apps to your backend data.

Video (via PHP) (3 mins)     Video (via LiveCycle Data Services) (4 mins)


List and Data Effects

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-ListEffects.png See how the list controls can animate as data is manipulated.

Writeup     Samples


Adobe AIR Applications


Window Component

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-AIRWindow.png Learn how Flex supports multi-window support in Adobe AIR.

Writeup


Platform Evolution


Code Refactoring

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-Refactoring.png Learn about the most-requested feature in Flex Builder.

Video


Compiler Modules

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-CompilerModules.png See how you can builder Flex applications in the familiar web compilation model.

Writeup


Deep Linking

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-DeepLinking.png Learn how Flex applications can be accessed more like HTML pages.

Writeup


JavaScript/Ajax Wrappers

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-AjaxBridge.png See how Flex Builder can generate code for easy integration between HTML and Flex.

Video (10 mins)     Sample



Multiple Flex SDK Support

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-MultipleSDK.png See how to manage development with different versions of Flex.

Video


Performance and Memory Profiling

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-Profiler.png Learn how to use the new Profilers in Flex Builder.

Writeup


Persistent Framework Caching

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-RSL.png See how your application size can be reduced by up to 500K!

Video (5 mins)


Runtime Localization

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-RuntimeLocalization.png Learn about the new support for multi-language applications.

Writeup     FlightReservation1 Sample     FlightReservation2 Sample


Server Project Wizards

image:Flex3FeatureIntroductions-Index-ServerProjects.png See how the project system has been enhanced to support Flex applications tied to servers.

Video (7 mins)


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