
CHAPTER 3
Flex 101: Step by Step
This chapter will walk you step by step through the process of
constructing
a Flex application. That starts with learning how
Flex works. Flex is an XML-based language that is compiled
into Flash applications. You can see the process portrayed
graphically in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1. The flow of Flex application building
Going
from the bottom left of Figure 3-1 to the top right, Flex
Builder 3 helps you write app.mxml, the Flex application. That
in turn is run through the MXML compiler that generates a
SWF file for the application. It also generates a temporary
HTML test page that hosts the SWF so that you can test it. The
SWF and the HTML are replaced after each compile, so I made
them dashed to indicate that they are temporary.
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