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SWX is the native data format for Flash. Data is stored as SWF bytecode (you can't get more native than that on the Flash Platform) that is interpreted by the Flash Player. The SWX format is a subset of the SWF format (just like JSON is a subset of JavaScript).

Designing for Flex and AIR in Fireworks CS3

Whether you want to turn your Adobe Flex or Flash files into professional Windows desktop applications, or you want to create the coolest Symbian Smartphone application, or create the most catchy Pocket PC program using the power and expressiveness of the Flash platform .... Janus provides the functionality and reliability combined with unbeaten performance.

One very powerful, and useful, feature of Flex is the ability to filter data inside the Flex application itself. One such example would be if you were displaying a datagrid that contained many rows of data and wanted to give your users the ability to filter the data based on certain criteria.

On the heels of releasing version 5 of TweenLite and TweenFilterLite and investing a lot of time into optimizing performance, I figured I'd take a few minutes to throw together a tool that could demonstrate and quantify any speed differences among a few of the tweening engines out there. Now before you go writing nasty comments about the fact that I didn't include your favorite one, I KNOW! I just didn't have time to download them all, learn the syntax, and include them. Instead, my goal was to post the tool and let the Flash community add to it if they so desire. It should be pretty simple actually. Dowload the source file here: AS2 or AS3. No trickery involved; the same code drives everything except for the tweens themselves. Basically it tweens white "stars" from the center outward at random angles, sizes, and with random delays. When a star's tween ends, it just repositions itself at the center and starts again. You can play with the number of stars and the duration of the tweens to see how the tweening engines handle various types of loads.

This time we are looking at Alert Messages in Flex. While the flex alerts are nice looking, they are a bit too simple. So, I started looking at options for styling the alerts and found that it quiet easy to get a really sexy look and feel for the Alerts.

Allows Flex 2.0 developers to debug and alter properties of components while running an application.

Flest is an ActionScript3 / Flex application framework for building enterprise level RIAs. It uses such design pattern as Controller, Factory, Command, etc. High efficiency, simplicity and practicality were set as its mandatory design features.

A few days ago I was idly browsing the web when I ran across a nice little DHTML animation that zoomed in on text as you moved your mouse around it. The effect reminded me of the Fisheye Menus developed by Ben Benderson at the University of Washington. I remember reading about the concept years ago and thought was a great little bit of UI innovation. Well, one thing led to another, and shortly thereafter a Flex component popped out.

flexmdi is a robust, extensible Multiple Document Interface framework for Adobe Flex.

AlivePDF is an AS3 PDF generation library. AlivePDF is based on FPDF.

Someone asked a question on flexcoders about taking a snapshot of a Flex chart and saving it to the clipboard. Well, that’s actually pretty hard, but this example shows how to load a snapshot image of any Flex component that the user can choose to copy or save. It opens a popup window with the image embedded. You’ve still got to right click on the image and either “Copy Image” or “Save Image As…”. But no server is required, it’s all done on the client with a magic little javascript trick.

Companies like YouTube, MySpace, and Photobucket have made a significant impact on the way we consume and socialize video. These sites enable anyone to be the director of his or her own videos, upload them to the web, and become a new online video celebrity. The web is the video distribution channel of the twenty-first century.

I needed XmlRpc to work with Flex 2, so I got the one from mattism.com, and in the process of making it work with ActionScript 3.0 (it's written for 2.0) kind of gutted it (Ok, so I've only been working with this whole Flex/AS business for about a week and a half). The gutted part has to do with error/fault handling mostly (I was confused), and also with removing some of the interface/implementation business, sorry, an).

What if you built a nice, custom FLV player in Flex and wanted to embed the player in an HTML page and have it star playing a specific video? How could you easily do that without tweaking the MXML each time with the path to the FLV or calling a server-side script to somehow determine the video you wanted to play? Well, one of the easiest solutions is to tweak the generated embed code and pass in any custom variables you wanted using “FlashVars”.

Flex2/ActionScript3 have introduced many changes in the Flash world, but actually the remoting classes we were used to include in our projects dont work anymore, or until Macromedia/Adobe wont release an ActionScript3 remoting package for us. Anyway Flash remoting AMFPHP will continue to work also in AS3, with little modifications to our code.

In Flex 2, the localized resources for an application had to be linked into the application SWF. Also<sep/>

Fill Colors is the embodiment of the separation between style and layout in Flex and a demonstration of what's possible in terms of skinning a Flex application. Fill Colors invites designers to show their Flex "skinning" skills and to learn from others by looking at the current styles in the gallery.

This article walks you through building the PHP portion of the site as well as building a movie viewer in Flash using the Flex framework. To build a simple version of YouTube (or a MyTube, as it were), you should have a couple of tools in place.

What if you built a nice, custom FLV player in Flex and wanted to embed the player in an HTML page and have it star playing a specific video? How could you easily do that without tweaking the MXML each time with the path to the FLV or calling a server-side script to somehow determine the video you wanted to play? Well, one of the easiest solutions is to tweak the generated embed code and pass in any custom variables you wanted using “FlashVars”.

Fill Colors is the embodiment of the separation between style and layout in Flex and a demonstration of what's possible in terms of skinning a Flex application. Fill Colors invites designers to show their Flex "skinning" skills and to learn from others by looking at the current styles in the gallery.

To demonstrate the development process in Adobe Flex, we'll begin with a simple 'Hello World' example. If you're already familiar with XML and Flash, you're already ahead in the game. Using the IDE, Flex or Eclipse, we will create an app. The project includes many files, but we're going to focus particularly on the file that has a *.mxml file extension. You will be presented with two development views, a 'Source' and 'Design' view. The Design view is a WYSIWYG that constructs our *.mxml file. The Source view is the *.mxml file editor. You'll notice that the *.mxml file is an XML structured file (see Example 1).

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This page includes sample applications that will help you get started using the Adobe® AIR™. These are basic applications built by Adobe engineers to demonstrate capabilities of the runtime.

This page contains a list of Flex 3 beta demo applications and sample code that will help you understand some of the things that you can do with Flex 3. We have also posted a number of videos that you can sit back and watch where our Flex development engineers will explain many of the important features in this release.

have created a sample Flex application that lets you browse your MySQL databases and allows you to do simple filtering on that data.

Built specifically for the Adobe Flex 3.0 platform. ILOG Elixir provides advanced capabilities for: * 2D chart extensions with radar charts (also named spider charts) * Full 3D charts including bar/column, area, line and pie * Treemap charts, for analyzing large data sets * Planning and scheduling displays, such as Gantt charts * Organizational charts * Maps for creating interactive dashboards

At MAX Peter Flynn of Adobe demoed how to make skins with transitions using Flash CS3 and some pre-created templates. For those who didn’t get to see the walk-through, or even for those who have, I thought I’d put together a little walk-through of my own.

Now that we have gone over Flex and PHP its time to get some client side interaction going on with Javascript. This tutorial will show you how to call javascript functions from flex and flex functions from javascript. There is a really nice example of the use of this on Google Finance, as well as a number of other google sites.

Guasax is an ease of use programming framework to provide ordered and scalable Flex applications. Life cycle of guasax framework is based in the MVC pattern to take on our program actions

"Thermo" is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application UIs. Thermo allows designers to build on familiar workflows to visually create working applications that easily flow into production and development

The FlexLib project is a community effort to create open source user interface components for Adobe Flex 2.

RIA pedia (pronouned ree-ah-pedia) is a site devoted to Rich Internet Applications. We're not talking Web 2.0 stuff, we're talking real applications developed with technologies like Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR.

As I recall, before Flex 2.0, the most wanted feature from Flex was File Upload. I still think the most significant improvement at Flex 2.0 is the file upload capability. So is it easy to do file upload with Flex now? Here I found some Flex file upload resources just in case you need them (I’m sure you will).

This article walks you through building the PHP portion of the site as well as building a movie viewer in Flash using the Flex framework. To build a simple version of YouTube (or a MyTube, as it were), you should have a couple of tools in place.