Controls, Navigation, Styles, Effects by Jyoti Kishnani

11.45: talked about Button component, Image component, how to embed icons, the difference between embedding an image in Image component and giving just the path to the image. Used the component browser and Flex Builder to show the examples.

The component browser has tiny fonts, the guys at the back are having trouble looking at the code. You can adjust the font size in builder, but not in the component browser application. i wonder if you we can somehow increase the font size in a Flex application when increasing the size in the browser (using Ctrl + ‘+‘).

Best practice: whenever you create an application make sure you minimize nesting. Make the application simple.

12noon: Styles – she’s using Flex Builder’s CSS editor (in design view) to show all the changes she made to the common components (button, datagrid) and created two instances of the same component with different styles to show the difference.

12.10pm:
Effects: used the component browser application to show different effects available in Flex.