Adobe Flex 3.0 Some of the necessary readings in the learning process

12 months after the initial air SDK alpha version, Adobe released the Flex3.0 and Air (Adobe Integrated Runtime) version 1.0. Flex leverages Adobe Flash player to provide a framework for building interactive rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Air, in turn, allows developers to build desktop applications using a flex or html/css/javascript combination. The current air supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X. The target version of Linux support is Air 1.1. Adobe also released the latest Flex Builder 3 IDE, the Standard Edition is priced at $249, and the Professional edition is priced at $699.

The New York Times has tried to express the shift: Microsoft is fighting against two of camps. NET has 2.2 million software developers, Adobe Flash has more than 1 million developers. Adobe Flash developers have so far largely developed on the web, as well as a number of other web-oriented designers using Open-source software development tools called Ajax.

To get other ideas, Infoq interviewed Adobe's Matt Rozen for details about Air 1.0 and interviewed James Ward for details about Flex 3.0 release.

In addition, the reporter discussed the product launch with Phil Costa, the director of product management at the Adobe Platform business unit. Costa first talked about the progress of Flex 2.0 to 3.0. He points out that the differences are obvious and that many companies are now publishing products built on this technology version.

Currently Adobe Flex's Chinese version of learning materials and books are relatively few, and most of them are very fragmented, information is not complete, not suitable for systematic learning. I just started FLEX3.0 the book "FLEX3.0 Complete Handbook". Say is complete, hehe, just superficial, if want to do a little more complex application, it is not completely. At first I was also very big, and then I looked around the internet to find FLEX3.0 related Chinese materials. For example, AS3.0 language Reference, FLEX3.0 Chinese help, etc. Of course more is to encounter problems Baidu search. I am here to list some of the information I have read during my study. Of course, Adobe is the official document, these documents are very detailed, should be the first choice for learning.

First download and install the Flex development tool Flex Builder 3. The default browser is, host Flash PLAYER 9, completely face the object development language structure, very good. It is very easy for programmers who are familiar with the object language.

For beginners, I suggest to buy a book on the edge, can be seen at any time, I personally recommend the "FLEX3.0 full manual." There are some flex structure, AS3.0 and related components, although not very detailed, but for the introduction, relatively sufficient. Because we have to learn a tool or a language, we must first know what it can do, and then we will study how to do it. Reading this book will generally tell what FLEX3.0 can do. As for how to do, how good to do, look at the nature of the individual.

In learning FLEX3.0, it is important to cooperate with the official documents to the formation and related classes for detailed understanding, otherwise will be at a loss. The following address is the official Chinese online documentation for Adobe. The content is very detailed, can say AS2.0 and 3.0 introduction as well as related use routines, inside all have!

Http://help.adobe.com/zh_CN/Flash/10.0_Welcome/index.html

But the 1 problems with official online documentation are the speed of access, which is often not open or slow, so I suggest that you also go online to download relevant offline Chinese help documents.

But the current network of large departments of the document chapters and content are not complete, this is very puzzled, so, recommend the whole good bandwidth, and then the network is good, it is best to have their own view of the relevant help saved in the local. As for Adobe's official online search, the basic search is in English. Look tired!

Of course, if you are good at English, it will be easy. Almost all the questions can be searched on official help!!! I often encounter some strange problems when I do flex. But in Baidu how also can't search, later still in Adobe official Help and forum search to relevant solution!

Here, I once again suggest those good English comrades, go to the Adobe official forum to stroll, there are many cattle there!!! I usually only use Chinese 中文版 to ask questions.

The following 3 Chinese documents are from the official document of Flash 9, and you can download the book channel of the It Shop (http://www.ithov.com/book/) for free:

ActionScript 3.0 programming, PDF format. Be sure to read it.

Use ActionScript 3.0 components, PDF format. Reference, consult.

ActionScript 3.0 language and component reference, CHM format. Reference, consult.

Then you can only read English documents, Flex 3 official documents are English version. Check out the official English document for Flex 3 It is very simple, after installing the FLEX3, there is a detailed document in the Help. I installed the Chinese version, but the same English documents: (I really hope that a Chinese company can buy these companies have!!! I don't think they can make a Chinese document!