08 May 2007

Hello World ! My first FLEX2 Application.

Adobe Flex 2 software is a rich Internet application framework based on Adobe Flash that will enable you to productively create beautiful, scalable applications that can reach virtually anyone on any platform.

The SDK was downloaded and extracted from : http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flex/sdk/flex_sdk_2.zip.

File:first.mxml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
    xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
    horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="center">
    <mx:Button id="myButton" label="Hello Bioinformatics World !" />
</mx:Application>


The file was compiled to flash using the mxmlc command (a java application):
>FLEX/SDK/bin/mxmlc --strict=true --file-specs first.mxml
Loading configuration file FLEX/SDK/frameworks/flex-config.xml
FLEX/test/first.swf (125402 bytes)
>  ls
first.mxml  first.swf


I then opened first.swf in firefox and...
My First FLEX2 app

Whaaaa ! It worked without any problem !!

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD !!


This looks exciting ! I need a good tutorial ! I need a good tutorial ! I need ....


Pierre :-)
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousWednesday, 09 May, 2007

    Cool. Thanks for the tutorial! I was just getting ready to try flex out myself. (I downloaded the sdk, but i havn't quite worked up the courage to extract it and try it out just yet). Here is a tutorial on setting it up with Eclipse on Ubuntu if anyone is interested - http://www.dustypixels.com/blog/2006/07/15/flex2-flash9-in-ubuntu/ .. please do post to if you do find any good tutorials :)

    Keith

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  2. AnonymousWednesday, 09 May, 2007

    The JavaFX technology seems to go in the same direction, with Sun support : http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-05/sunflash.20070508.2.xml
    In fact the goal is to replace the awful AJAX.

    You may like it, it's a mix of Java, flash, ...

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