Greg Wilson's Ramblings

The Adobe Developer Connection just added more videos to the “Flex in a Week” series.

New Topics – Adding Visual Appeal:

• Implementing Navigator Containers
• Embedding Images
• Embedding Fonts
• Creating Constraint-based Layouts
• Applying Styles to MXML Components
• Skinning Flex Components with with Adobe CS3
• Creating New States
• Animating with Behaviors and Transitions
• Drawing Shapes with the Drawing API
• Skinning Components Programmatically
• Extending Components

Here is a quick copy/paste of previous videos posted in the series (as I blogged earlier): Comparing Flash, Flex, Flash Player and AIR; Introducing Flex Builder; Creating a Flex Builder workspace and project; Using pre-built Flex controls; Understanding MXML; Binding data between controls; Handling user events; Introduction to the event object; Adding EventListeners with ActionScript; Retrieving data via HTTPService; Displaying data in the DataGrid; Working with containers; Creating custom MXML components; Implementing value object classes; Creating custom events; Creating custom event classes; Customizing item renderers; Exploring Flex Builder tips; Validating data; Requesting and sending data with RemoteObject; Formatting data; Dragging data between List components; Filtering XML with E4X; Deploying Flex and AIR applications.

Additional videos are coming soon under the category “Architecture and Advanced Topics”.

Good stuff!