Edge Managing Editor Julie Campagna interviews Mark Nichoson and Craig Goodman about these exciting new community resources.
Get an overview of the new cross-operating system runtime, learn how it speeds RIA development and deployment, and see how easy it is to build applications for it.
Developers share how Flex 2 features like the Eclipse-based IDE and visual component library help them build RIAs quickly and easily. (5:15)
Follow along as Bruce Eckel and James Ward show you how to code a Flex interface using the Python-based framework.
Start using Flex 2 now. Understand basic concepts and learn how to code top tasks.
Fresh from the Flex team and community, these new samples show you what you can create with Flex 2 and Flash Player 9. View and download the source code for most applications by browsing, right-clicking, and selecting View Source.
See all Adobe sample applications, and Flex Developer Derby winners.
Dashboards, configurators, RIA stores, and more—check out the top selections in the Australian coding contest.
Use this new community site to host open source projects built with Adobe technologies—from ColdFusion apps to Photoshop plug-ins to Flash ActionScript libraries.
Learn how to use the Ruby on Rails framework with Flex as you build an issue-tracker application.
A shopping cart application that connects to the websites of multiple vendors using httpservice controls. (Alnoor Lalji, Softbytes)
FlexAmp is an online mp3 player that plays songs off a user's online storage account at Box.net. As the songs play, the application brings in photos, videos and product details from Flickr, YouTube and Amazon based on the ID3 information in the mp3s. (Arpit Mathur, Comcast)
This application is a dynamic interface into a subset of the Amazon.com API (Books, Music, and Video) and explores the features of Flex 2, using MXML primarily for layout and ActionScript 3.0 for functionality. (Darin Kohles, Digital Positions)
A Flex version of a ColdFusion photo album built in 2003, the Flex photo album uses web services to communicate through ColdFusion to the database of albums and images. (Gary Gilbert, Glynn Technologies)
See all Flex community sample applications
In Nahuel Faronda’s winning configurator app, users select real estate locations from a US map and filter the results by price, bedrooms, bathrooms.
Kevin Kazmierczak’s winning component app is an online version of query analyzer for Microsoft SQL Server.
Rich Tretola's winning dashboard helps users visualize web visits, page views, session tracking, and more.
Amit Gupta's winning mashup with Amazon.com and the Public Library system gives book lovers an enriched browsing experience across the two sites.
Tim McLeod and Kevin Harris's winning collaboration tool helps a group of content editors create Flash-based training modules.
Darron Schall’s winning application simulates the Commodore 64 Emulator through ActionScript 3.0.
See this visual way of selecting style settings for Flex 2 user interface components.
Using REST and SOAP web services, your users can update data in a master-detail type application.
States, transitions, and UI techniques—this app demonstrates the types of user experiences you can create with the Flex.
Getting familiar with Flex? The explorer shows simple usage for MXML components in the Flex framework.
See how to integrates a Flex component into an existing HTML application, and take advantage of expressiveness in Flex 2.
Charts data visually using Flex component effects to highlight users' actions as they drill deeper into data.
Download the Flex software updates, software development kits (SDKs), and related software and downloads from Adobe Labs and take your design and development to the next level.
Get the latest updates and additions to Flex Builder, Flex SDK, Flex Data Services, and Charting.
Eclipse-based development environment for Flex. Supports visual and code-centric development, code hinting, visual debugging, and so forth. Includes the Flex 2.0.1 SDK, Flex Charting, and Flash Player 9.
Enables you to develop and deploy Flex applications for free using an IDE of your choice. Includes the Flex framework, the compiler, and the debugger. (Included with Flex Builder 2.0.1.)
For innovative data-driven applications. Includes the message service, JMS integration, Java RPC services, data synchronization framework, data paging, proxy services, and more. The Express edition is a free, non-expiring commercial-use product limited to applications running on a single CPU machine.
ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 contains connectivity for ColdFusion with Flex 2.
Download the updater if you have already installed ColdFusion MX 7.01. The updater contains connectivity for ColdFusion with Flex 2.
Get help load testing Flex 2 applications that use Flex Data Services.
Create and customize any number of Scheduling Components in Flex 2 through this framework.
With the new beta version and the free Adobe Flex 2 SDK, Linux users can take advantage of the Flex 2 development model for creating and deploying RIAs.
This open-source project helps PHP developers get started with building Adobe Flex applications quickly.
Preview this tool for creating great-looking HTML documentation for your MXML and ActionScript code.
A demonstration application built with Flex 2 that provides a private and persistent canvas for small groups to exchange digital content easily.
Try this proof-of-concept Flex 2 application for capturing notes and assigning tasks, using read/write web technologies like RSS, blogging, tagging, and microformats.
Build Flex 2 apps with the Flickr API, Mappr API, RSS parser API, search APIs for video and podcasts, and more.
This new JavaScript library enables developers to easily integrate Flex applications with Ajax or DHTML code running in the browser.
Download the popular framework to architect scalable, easy-to-maintain Flex 2 applications.
Check out the Flex Support Center, where you can download updaters for Flex 1.5 and 1.0.
Share knowledge and find answers to common coding problems through the Flex cookbook. Learn more
Posted by jackie1999 at 03:20 AM on Jan 15, 2007
When the web service hosted in A domain and the Flex application in B domain. As default, the Flex application doesn't allow to access the web service.
Posted by sengung1234 at 11:20 PM on Jan 13, 2007
How does the Tree.getDisplayIndex() work in Flex 2 ?
Posted by flashArchitect at 1:50 PM on Jan 11, 2007
What do you do if your application needs custom context menus for components that are not at the application level but rather are nested within other containers or components.
Posted by avo415 at 3:41 PM on Jan 10, 2007
Our application consists of a Flex 2 wrapper that loads in external swf files for content. One of the requirements of these content swf files is that their text links call methods on the Flex layer. The problem is that the external content swf's TextField URL links break when the swf is loaded into a Flex 2 swf using the SWFLoader.
Posted by aalderson at 3:59 PM on Jan 09, 2007
The context menu for pop up windows does not use the application context menu
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