Flex Resource Thread - Getting Started
This forum is about a day old and we'll be posting links in this thread to some of the more common questions and resources to cover general usage with the Flex 2 Framework. While we have a dedicated AS3 forum, we know that a lot of Flex 2 users will cross back and forth across forums because while Flex's core scripting is MXML, it fully supports AS3 as well so it's confusing sometimes what forum to post in and who is best suited to offer help. A lot of topics have been covered in the last 6-8 months at a lot of the more well known guru sites and popular blogs and as we get going we will link up anything that might be of use to users in here.
What is Flex 2 ?
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/p...info/overview/
Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (Free!!)
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/downloads/
Flex 2 System requirements:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/p...fo/systemreqs/
Flex Official Support (Adobe):
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...cfm?forumid=60
Flex 2 Language Reference:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/
Developers Guide:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/doc...2_DevApps.html
Flex Resource Search Tool:
http://flexsearch.org/
Flex Runtime Error Codes Explained:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/lan...imeErrors.html
MetaData Tags Explained:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/doc...=00001652.html
Framework Explorers (some include source code):
Primitives
Components
CSS Styles
Effects
Filters
Flex Builder Cheat Sheets:
http://davidzuckerman.com/adobe/2006...r-cheat-sheet/
Garbage Collection (mainly G. Skinners extensive coverage):
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...source_ma.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...urce_ma_1.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...urce_ma_2.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...e_collect.html
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archive...ce_manage.html
More to come....
im still lost where to start.
this didnt really address my questions, thanks though chris. Its just getting an environment set up and understanding what is flex that is difficult and knowing what to develop in and produce the html and swf.
What is mxml ? I know what a package and class is, but I still have never seen an mxml file.
I can create an AS3 class/package in flash, if i use the libraries from the flex SDK does it then become a flex project, even if written in flash IDE.