Dolores Moore - Flex Skinning and RIA UI Design

This Video Training Snippet Shows you how to bring in Flex Skin Design assets such as images, video and swf’s into the project and store them in folders in order to use them in the Flex Skin Design process.

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1. From the location you have saved your design files select all of the images.
2. Copy the images from their current location.
3. Right click on the “images” folder in your Flex Navigator Panel.
4. Select Paste from the menu.
5. Repeat the process for videos, audio, swf’s, etc.

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This Video Training Snippet Shows you how to layout a user interface using Flex components in the Flex Design View. For this interface we are creating a Basic Flex Video Player (skin only).

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1. From the Flex Component Panel click and drag the “Vbox” component to insert it into the layout.
This box will hold all the other components into place and lay them out “Vertically” on the screen.
2. Enter a 430 width and a 438 height or leave default for now.
3. Drag a “Video Display” component and drop it inside the “VBox”
4. Drag an “Image” component over to the layout and drop it above the Video Display inside the VBox.
5. Drag an “HBox” component and drop it underneath the Video Display.
This box will hold all the buttons that control the video player and lay them out “Horizontally”.
6. Drag a “Button” component and drop it inside of the HBox. Repeat 4 more times for a total of 5 buttons.

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This Video Training Snippet Shows you how to make a new folder in your project in Flex 3. This is necessary to store files like images, video, swfs. This process is similar to setting up a new website when you are about to take a web design into production.

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1. Right Mouse Button Click on your “src” folder in the Flex Navigator Panel in your project.
2. Go to New > Folder.
3. Type in title for your new folder in the “Folder Name” field.
4. Hit “Finish” Button.

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This Video Training Snippet Shows you how to make a new project in Flex 3. This is the most basic way to make a new project with the default settings.

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1. Launch Flex 3.
2. Go to File > New Flex Project.
3. Type in title for your new project in the “Project Name” field.
4. Hit “Finish” Button.

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