Flash Speaks Actionscript

Using Flex Builder, Chet Haase of the Flex SDK team shows you how to create and enable an animated “spring” effect using custom effects on components.

Check out this creative solution to simulating a mac-like spring effect within Flex Builder.  Until Flex becomes more “designer friendly”, solutions like this will help on producing some neat effects within Flex.  Enjoy the video!

Joe Johnston skinned the hSlider within Flex to get the look and feel of iPhone’s slider.  Joe is the man behind the AIR iPhone and has integrated this into this project.

Check out how Joe was able to accomplish the skinning of the hslider.

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Chet Haase of the Flex SDK team shows you how to create an animated pulse effect in Flex for attracting a GUI user’s attention unobtrusively.

This is a video that allows you to get your feet wet with animating effects on the Flex platform.

With just a few lines of code, James ward builds a simple chat application while showing you how to use Flex Messaging Service.

In this tutorial, Senior Computer scientist Tom Lane shows how you can use Flex Builder 3 to create a simple Adobe AIR application.

This tutorial is very basic and simply gets the point across to Flex/Flash users how easy it is to even create an Adobe AIR application. Hopefully, this video will influence users to open up the possibilities with Adobe AIR as the complexity of the Adobe AIR application will be entirely up to you. Have fun!

Check out this video from Duane Nickull as he takes a dive into India to see how Flex has become the spotlight for new age applications. During the second half of the video, Duane demonstrates a step by step solution to building an interactive Flash Map using Yahoo’s new AS3 API and Flex Builder 3.

Other Resources:

• Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3.0
• ActionScript 3.0 Class Reference
• Duane’s Blog

Flash Component Kit for Flash CS3

Adding your great Flash content into Adobe Flex is now just a few steps away. You can easily export you Flash movieclips into Flex components with the Flash Component Kit for Flash CS3. The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component. This allows for designers and developers to add a creative touch to Flex.

Check out this video by Glenn Peuhle as he demonstrates how to create custom Flex components using Flash CS3.

For more information on the Flash Component Kit for Flash CS3 check it out at the Adobe Flex exchange.