Learning Flex 3 (Alaric Cole)

Getting Up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)

Chapter 7 Examples

Here is the example application for Chapter 7: Using Data Binding. It’s a simple mock-up for a contact manager, which shows the most common features of data binding in Flex.

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10 Comments so far

  1. Dennis July 18th, 2008 11:01 am

    I am struggling to learn flash.
    I want to have better online tools.
    I still can’t make buttons like [...]. Thats my goal, anyway, so far I love your book.
    The experience would be better for me, if all code examples could be downloaded in one zip.

    Thanks, I’ll keep checking.

  2. Alaric July 18th, 2008 11:52 am

    Good point, thanks for the feedback. I’ll post one large zip file that will contain all examples and source. I’ll place it on the main Examples and Source Code page.

  3. John Wolf October 19th, 2008 10:13 pm

    ContactManager project in Chap 7: Once a color is picked for the Canvas, the application and panel background colors change to making the output unrealistic. How do you keep the app and the panel colors gray and only change the 60×60 canvas?

  4. Alaric October 21st, 2008 10:13 pm

    To not change the background colors of the application, remove the call to modifyBackgroundColor()

  5. Eric November 26th, 2008 10:42 am

    Hi Alaric,
    Great book! I am having a wonderful time working through all the examples. I have run into an issue though. My flex builder does not seem to recognize the tag (there is no autocomplete for it). I also get the error when working the data binding examples in chapter 7:
    “Component declarations are not allowed here. (Note: visual children must implement mx.core.IUIComponent)” Not sure what this means.

    Any ideas? Thanks for the help.

  6. Steve Moss February 8th, 2009 7:47 pm

    Love your book. Very targeted and great jumping off point for the more in depth/advanced concept literature. I’ve been a CF programmer for almost 10 years of and on with both Oracle and SQL Server for major corps. Worked with C#.Net and Java as well for integration/migration purposes.

    Your book is too the point and covers what us ‘grind it out’ programmers need to get up and going. Most books seem to be written from a style of ‘Hey look at what I know’ rather than through the eyes and needs of most meatball programmers like me.

    Thanks!

  7. Jeff February 13th, 2009 8:02 am

    Same issue as Eric on 11/26. Using the or directly in code displeases the compiler.

  8. Jeff February 13th, 2009 8:03 am

    the post stripped out the tags.. so those from chapter seven were the String and Binding tags

  9. Jeff February 13th, 2009 8:09 am

    Never mind. The string/binding tag problem occurs when trying to use them inside a panel component. Place it outside the component and they work fine.

  10. seol May 12th, 2009 7:07 am

    Good point, thanks for the feedback. I’ll post one large zip file that will contain all examples and source. I’ll place it on the main Examples and Source Code page.

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