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Additional capabilities include:

• XML-driven drill-down data
• Data export to Excel or PNG
• Tabular representation of chart data

Technologies:

• Adobe® Flex® 3
• Adobe® Flash® Builder® 4
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10

The workshop covers all the material students need to develop rich Internet applications (RIA) for the Adobe Flash platform using the Adobe Flex 4 framework, and thoroughly explores messaging, remoting, web services, performance profiling, unit testing, and client-side data manipulation.

Tuition

• $2,645 $2,116 after 20% FlexDevelopers.com Discount

Dates

• August 1 – 5, 2011
• August 22 – 26, 2011
• October 3 – 7, 2011
• December 12 – 16, 2011

Times

• 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. with intermittent 10 min. breaks and working lunch provided each day

Duration

• Five (5) day instructor-led training

Format

• On3 Training Center: 110 16th Street, Suite 604, Denver, CO 80202
• Online: Live. Concurrent with instructor led dates.
• Or at your location.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for application developers who want training to bring the power of rich Internet applications to their web applications while validating their skills and knowledge with the Adobe Flex 4 ACE certification. To gain the most from this class, you should:

• Be familiar with an object oriented programming language such as Java or C++
• Be familiar with XML terminology

The course package includes:

• Flex 4: Developing Rich Internet Applications
• Flex 4 and LiveCycle Data Services 3: Data Models, Debugging and Design Patterns
• AIR 2.0: Building Beyond the Browser with Adobe Flex 4
• Voucher for 1 Pearson Vue exam #9A0-129 (a US $150 value)
• Adobe Flex 4 Product Proficiency Exam Bulletin
• Working lunches provided for the class each day.

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Tuition

• $1,995 $1,595 after 20% FlexDevelopers.com Discount

Dates

• June 20 – 23
• July 18 – 21
• August 15 – 18
• September 6 – 9
• October 24 – 27
• November 7 – 10
• December 5 – 8

Times

• 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with intermittent 10 min. breaks and 1 hour for lunch

Duration

• Four (4) day instructor-led training

Format

• On3 Training Center: 110 16th Street, Suite 604, Denver, CO 80202
• Online: Live. Concurrent with instructor led dates.
• Or at your location.

Emphasized Topics

• Custom components and layout control
• Handling and extending events
• Validating and formatting data
• Navigation, animation, and visual state control
• Text and style control
• Spark component skinning
• Introduction to remote data access
• Working with typed data in DataGroup and DataGrid components
• Deploying Flex applications over the web and on AIR

Prerequisites

This course is designed for application developers who want training to bring the power of Rich Internet Applications to their web applications. To gain the most from this class, you should:

• Be familiar with an object oriented programming language such as Java or C++
• Be familiar with XML terminology

Course Outline

Introducing the Course

• Introducing mastery learning
• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course prerequisites
• Reviewing the course outline

Introducing Adobe Flex 4

• Introducing the Adobe Flash Platform
• Introducing the technologies
• Building Flex applications
• Experiencing web and desktop applications
• Learning more about Flex
• Understanding Flex development technologies
• Understanding the Flex framework, SDK and tool
• Understanding Adobe Flash Builder 4
• Understanding Flex application deployment
• Exploring the Flash Builder interface
• Grouping projects with workspaces
• Understanding the workbench
• Understanding editors
• Understanding views
• Understanding perspectives
• Adding and configuring components in Design mode
• Creating a Flex project
• Using the New Flex Project wizard

Understanding Flex 4 Fundamentals

• Understanding Adobe Flex namespaces
• Understanding how namespaces translate into Flex libraries
• Understanding Flex components
• Assigning component properties
• Laying out and styling with Flash Builder
• Setting component properties
• Setting styles using a CSS style sheet
• Compiling and running an application
• Compiling the application
• Running the application
• Creating custom components
• Controlling component layout in containers
• Defining and using a custom component
• Introducing skinning
• Defining a skin class
• Applying a skin class
• Accessing and using structured data within a custom component
• Declaring non-visual objects in MXML
• Defining inline event handlers
• Generating event handler functions
• Introducing data binding
• Implementing data binding
• Declaring and using bindable properties
• Passing data to an embedded control through a custom component property
• Updating visual controls using dynamic data
• Capturing the current item in a list control
• Using data binding to dynamically update visual controls
• Adding and removing event listeners using ActionScript

Introducing Object Oriented Prgramming

• Introducing OOP terminology
• Understanding classes
• Understanding instances and objects
• Understanding class relationships
• Understanding MXML classes
• Exploring the Flex framework classes
• Creating class instances
• Extending the Flex framework classes
• Creating a class property
• Creating the property
• Controlling access
• Creating and using a public property
• Writing a class definition in ActionScript
• Creating a class
• Packaging a class
• Naming a class
• Understanding the constructor
• Creating class properties
• Assigning property values through the constructor
• Making properties or classes bindable
• Creating instances of an ActionScript class
• Creating class methods

Understanding Components and Layouts

• Introducing visual components
• Introducing Spark vs MX components
• Understanding components
• Introducing Spark layout classes
• Defining the layout property
• Understanding the BasicLayout class
• Understanding the HorizontalLayout class
• Understanding the VerticalLayout class
• Understanding the TileLayout class
• Custom layout classes
• Introducing the Spark container classes
• Understanding how the containers work
• Understanding the Spark containers
• Reviewing the Application container
• Introducing the Group container
• Introducing the Panel container
• Sample application layout
• Introducing the BorderContainer
• Using constraints to control component layout
• Understanding constraint-based layout basics
• Rules to control component layout
• Constraint-based vs. traditional container layout
• Visually assigning anchors
• Adding scrollbars to containers
• Implementing the Scroller class

Handling Events

• Understanding events
• Handling Framework events
• Handling user events
• Implementing event handlers
• Using inline ActionScript in MXML
• Creating ActionScript event handler functions
• Defining a function in an MXML document
• Creating functions in external files
• Understanding the event object
• Introducing the event object
• Exploring event object properties
• Datatyping the event object
• Understanding event bubbling
• Distinguishing currentTarget and target
• Introducing event bubbling
• Adding event listeners with ActionScript

Validating and Formatting Data

• Using the Form container
• Introducing the Form components
• Using form components
• Using the FormItem container
• Creating a Form custom component
• Using formatters
• Validating form data
• Creating a Validator with MXML
• Creating a Validator with ActionScript
• Handling Required Values
• Triggering validation with events
• When validation fails
• Using the NumberValidator Class
• Triggering validation with ActionScript
• Suppressing automatic validation
• Using the validate() method
• Triggering multiple validators

Controlling Navigation

• Understanding MX navigator containers
• Controlling container display
• Introducing the MX navigator containers
• Using the ViewStack container
• Understanding ViewStack basics
• Navigating with the LinkBar control
• Navigating with the TabBar control
• Displaying and resizing the ViewStack child containers
• Deferring instantiation of ViewStack child containers
• Using a Spark container inside MX navigator containers
• Creating custom navigation for the ViewStack container
• Setting the active ViewStack child container
• Enabling buttons dynamically
• Using the TabNavigator container
• Using the Accordion container

Controlling Application State

• Understanding view states
• Introducing view states
• Creating view states in Design mode
• Creating view states with code
• Controlling view states
• Introducing the currentState property
• Switching between states

Animating Components and States

• Applying effects to components
• Interacting with users using animated effects
• Understanding effect basics
• Reviewing available effects
• Defining an effect
• Playing an effect
• Creating composite effects
• Applying transitions to application state changes
• Creating transitions
• Adding and removing components during animations

Controlling Visual Display with Styling

• Creating global application styles
• Generating the styles using the Appearance view in Design mode
• Flash Builder automatically creates CSS file
• Global vs Application selector
• Defining styles and skins for components
• Creating Flex component selectors
• Create custom component selectors
• Applying a component skin via CSS
• Introducing Advanced CSS selectors
• Descendent selector
• id selector
• Class selector
• Pseudo selector

Skinning Spark Components

• Introducing skinning
• Understanding Spark skins
• Setting styles inline in the MXML tags
• Introducing the skinnable Spark container classes
• Creating a skin for Spark components
• Incorporating visual elements drawn in other programs
• Introducing FXG
• Changing the default display of skin parts
• Reviewing the contentGroup skin part for containers
• Understanding a Button control’s skin part
• Understanding the Panel container’s skin parts
• Finding skin parts for any component
• Choosing a component to display the skin part

Implementing Advanced Skinning Techniques

• Implementing different visual states for a skin
• Understanding skin states in Button component
• Assigning properties for each state
• Animating the button states
• Accessing custom component properties from a skin
• Defining the custom property in the custom component
• Creating the skin and component contract
• Referencing the properties in the skin
• Adding scrollbars to skins
• Using the Scroller with nonskinnable containers
• Using the Scroller with skinnable containers

Accessing Remote Data

• Using HTTPService to load remote data
• Using the HTTPService class
• Process for making HTTP requests
• Retrieving data with lastResult
• Understanding the ArrayCollection results
• Using results in data bindings
• Handling returned data and faults
• Handling results
• Handling faults
• Displaying messages with an Alert pop-up
• Using result and fault handlers example
• Making HTTP requests with parameters
• Using explicit parameter passing
• Using parameter binding
• Using the wizards
• Understanding the CallResponder class
• Creating a master/detail form

Creating a Typed Data Model

• Understanding the need for a typed data model
• Working with a model of generic data
• Creating a model of typed data
• Understanding value objects
• Creating value objects
• Creating an ActionScript class for typed data
• Reviewing classpaths and packages
• Creating class files
• Defining class access modifiers
• Creating class constructors
• Defining class properties
• Instantiating an ActionScript class
• Populating an ArrayCollection with value objects
• Comparing ArrayCollection with ArrayList
• Understanding data bindings with value objects
• Making ActionScript class properties bindable
• Binding the view to the model
• Binding two-way
• Refactoring value objects
• Downcasting object references

Extending Events

• Understanding the problem with bindings
• The problem of using bindings
• Creating loosely coupled components
• Defining the event type
• Defining the event in the dispatching component
• Triggering the event from a user or system event
• Instantiating the event
• Dispatching the event to the main application
• Handling the event in the main application
• Extending the Event class
• Creating the extended class
• Extending the Event class
• Adding properties
• Creating the constructor
• Using the extended event class
• Using the Metadata compiler directive
• Dispatch the extended event
• Handling the event in the main application
• Dispatching a value object with the extended event
• Accommodating a value object in the extended event
• Overriding the clone method
• Passing a parameter to toggle event bubbling

Rendering Content with the DataGroup Container

• Displaying string data in an item renderer
• Understanding DataGroup container basics
• Implementing the DataGroup container
• Using the default item renderer
• Passing UI components in the data provider
• Rendering visual controls
• Mixing data item types
• Creating a custom item renderer
• Understanding the limits of the default item renderer
• Creating a custom item renderer
• Creating a nested item renderer
• Referencing an external item renderer class
• Using data in an item renderer
• Using the SkinnableDataContainer
• Implementing the SkinnableDataContainer
• Creating the skin component

Displaying Data Using the DataGrid

• Using the DataGrid control
• Supplying data to a DataGrid control
• Specifying DataGrid control columns
• Formatting DataGrid control columns
• Creating reusable label functions
• Using item renderers and item editors
• Understanding Item renderers versus item editors
• Introducing the types of item renderers and item editors
• Inline item renderers and item editors
• Item renderer and item editor components
• Using Spark components in item renderers
• Using events and selected items with a DataGrid component

Deploying Flex and AIR Applications

• Compiling the Flex application
• Compiling automatically
• Modifying compiler settings
• Embedding the SWF in the HTML wrapper
• Understanding the runtime shared libraries
• Creating a Flex application production build
• Creating a release build
• Creating a desktop application
• Creating an AIR project
• Understanding some differences between Flex and AIR applications
• Exporting a release build

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Emulating the features of the Top Doc iPhone application, a Flex version was built to demonstrate the game’s features at topdocgame.com.

Subsequently, customization of the Flex application was required to market the Top Doc iPhone application to a targeted audience of medical students. FlexDevelopers.com was chosen to provide the necessary enhancements.

Customization involved persistance, display and email delivery of the game’s top scores, configuration of game settings, and other enhancements.

Built with Adobe® Flex® the Top Doc demo is web-based and accesible to everyone with a browser.

Technologies:

• Adobe® Flex® 3
• Adobe® Flex® Builder® 3
• Adobe® Flash® Player 9+
• PHP 5
• MySQL 5.1

Tuition

• $995 $796 after 20% FlexDevelopers.com Discount

Dates

• September 26 – 27, 2011
• December 19 – 20, 2011

Times

• 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. with intermittent 10 min. breaks and 1 hour for lunch

Duration

• Two (2) day instructor-led training

Format

• On3 Training Center: 110 16th Street, Suite 604, Denver, CO 80202
• Online: Live. Concurrent with instructor led dates.
• Or at your location.

Emphasized topics include:

• Messaging, remoting, and web services
• Performance profiling and unit testing
• Client-side data manipulation
• Model-driven development using the Fiber Framework and Flash Builder 4

Prerequisites

• Flex 4: Developing Rich Internet Applications or equivalent knowledge.

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