Aral Balkan

Four more of my Flex 2 Quick Starts have just been released on the Adobe Flex Developer Center.

These four cover data handling in Flex with a focus on implementing Flex 2 applications that use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.

The topics covered are Defining data models, Using data binding, Validating data, and Formatting data.

Comments

• Hi Aral, Well done on the recent quickstarts. As a long time Flash/PHP user, but recent Flex user, learning the Flex/AS3 "right way" to do things is often confusing. Your examples have been great, as they provide simple logical examples of how to implement specific things. However often get stuck on the holistic view and the entire workflow process. I know everyone is different, however it'd be great to see how a professional does it. I think it would be really valuable to n00b Flex developers to see how you would create a project from start to finish, which may include user login (authentication), data transfer both ways using AMFPHP/Arp, handling states/multiple screens, etc, with specific emphasis on your thought process, and how a project may start with one simple class, and gradually get more complex as more functionality is required. In my experience, most projects evolve as they need to be more complex, and often with tutorials it can be hard to see that evolution. If you know of anything like this currently for Flex, please let me know! Thanks for all the work you've done so far!

  by Adz on 2006-08-30 01:10:06

• Hi Adz, Thank-you for your kind words and for your excellent suggestion. It's something that I have been meaning to do for a while now as I also definitely see a need for it. In the meanwhile, have you checked out the Flex 2 version of the Pizza Service sample application from Arp.

  by aral on 2006-08-30 13:13:32

• Hi Aral, I just wanted to thank you as well for all your work with the tutorials. I have been enjoying trying to learn Flex more, and your tutorials have helped answer several of my questions. Thanks! ~Steve

  by Steve Terjeson on 2006-08-30 18:18:50

• Very happy to hear it, Steve! I hope you enjoy the new ones also :)

  by aral on 2006-08-30 18:49:51

• Helo Aral, How can we update the tutorial helpfile on flex2 IDE with new one's added atfer its release. It will be really helpful to find a way to connect to adobe developer network and download new tutorials from the website from flex2 IDE. Please advice.

  by Shimju David on 2006-08-31 12:42:58

• Hi Aral. Thank you for the tutorial. And the question is once I tie up Flash with Php, why would people like me need to invest time to learn Flex? Thank you.

  by Ozgur on 2006-09-01 12:54:41

• Hey Ozgur: Because Flex provides a much better workflow for building applications. It lets you build UIs in a declarative manner using a tag-based language. This gives you a lot of flexibility in arranging, rearranging and restructuring your applications. Of course there are other benefits (data binding, etc.) Why not download the framework (it's free) and a trial of Flex Builder 2 and try it out? :)

  by aral on 2006-09-02 10:10:36