
30 Introducing Flex
Summary of Flex application features
The following table describes the features that you are most likely to use when building Flex
applications:
Feature Description
User-interface controls Controls are user-interface components, such as Button,
TextArea, and ComboBox controls. You use MXML tags to add
controls to an application.
For more information, see Chapter 9, “Using Controls,” in the
Flex 2 Developer’s Guide.
User-interface containers Containers are user-interface components that let you control the
layout characteristics of the user-interface components that they
contain. You can use containers to control child sizing and
positioning, or to control navigation among multiple child
containers. You use MXML tags to add containers to an
application.
For more information, see Chapter 13, “Introducing Containers,”
in the Flex 2 Developer’s Guide.
MXML components MXML components are Flex components written in MXML files.
They provide an easy way to extend an existing Flex component
and encapsulate the appearance and behavior of a component in
a custom MXML tag. You use MXML tags to add MXML
components to an application.
For more information, see Chapter 2, “Creating Flex
Components,” in Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components.
ActionScript components ActionScript components are Flex components written in
ActionScript classes. They are a good choice for nonvisual
components. You can use MXML tags to add ActionScript
components to an application.
For more information, see Chapter 2, “Creating Flex
Components,” in Creating and Extending Flex 2 Components.
Data binding The data binding feature provides a simple syntax for
automatically copying the value of a property of one client-side
object to a property of another object at runtime.
For more information, see Chapter 39, “Storing Data,” in the
Flex 2 Developer’s Guide.
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