Flash Article | Flex 4 roundup
1.Gumbo
The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:
- Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
- Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
- Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases
2.Everything there is to know about Flex 4 / Gumbo
About a month ago, the Flex team announced that nightly builds of the next version of Flex (code named Gumbo) were now available on the opensource Flex site. Along with early versions of the SDK, the team also posted a ton of other information, including specs and API docs.
Below is a listing of links and resources about Gumbo / Flex 4. Going through these will quickly get your up to speed on what is being worked on in Flex 4, and get your ready for playing around with the new builds.
3.Video - See Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG, Thermo, Degrafa and more
I usually avoid any online video presentations that last longer than 15 minutes (my attention span limit), but in this case, I made an exception. This one hour and ten minute video is loaded with some VERY good content including information and demos of Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG / MXMLG, Thermo and the announcement of the collaboration of Degrafa and Adobe.
The video is the keynote from last week’s 360Flex event by Mark Anders, Adobe’s senior principal scientist.
So, gather your kids, make some popcorn, sit back and enjoy. You will also find this and other 360Flex sessions on Adobe Media Player:
4.Basic Skinning in Flex 4
One of the main new features with Flex 4 is advanced skinning capabilities. In this post, I’m going to give a very simple example of skinning in Gumbo. Lets get started…
5.Gumbo!!! Setup Flex 4 in Flex Builder 3
So I finally decided to jump into Flex 4 (codenamed “Gumbo”).Gumbo has a lot of changes from Flex 3. Check out this article for what’s new in Flex 4 . Gumbo doesnt have a stable release yet so download a nightly build. Gumbo needs Flash Player 10, so you have to download that as well. So lets get started.
6.Flex 4 (Gumbo) and states
Surfing on web I read Ted’s blog that talk about new feature of Flex 4 (codename Gumbo) about states!
So I take a look at opensource.adobe.com page that talks about this new feature… very cool!
Adobe creates a very simple way to add, remove, show and hide components in a Flex application with a new attributes: includeIn and excludeFrom.
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