Flexing the Flash Review - Create a new project

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Before doing anything, you first need to start a project. As you can see, you can build three types of projects, Flex Project, Flex Library Project and ActionScript Project. Let us create a new project, NewFlex, by going to the File menu and picking the option Flex Project from the drop-down as shown. In addition to creating a new Flex project, you can create an instance of most of the other objects from this drop-down menu.

When you click on the Flex Project from the drop-down you will see the next screen. Here you have to make a decision as to what kind of Flex project you want to create. A Flex Enterprise Services project is a project that works with the Java Application Server to provide comprehensive database support and enhanced remote procedure calls functionality. leveraging the Flex Framework's rich graphic interface capabilities. For this tutorial, the less ambitious option, the default, is chosen.

Clicking on Next> to the above screen brings up the next screen, where you need to give a name for the project; herein it is NewFlex. It creates the file in the default directory, C:Documents and SettingsJayMy DocumentsFlexNewFlex, as shown in this window. This action  also creates the main application file, NewFlex.mxml.

Clicking on Finish will create all the files and folders necessary for you to start a simple project which has no server support, as shown in the next couple of screen shots. A number of windows will be open at the same time.

Main parts of the IDE

In the Navigator on the left you will see a new project, NewFlex, which is shown with its contents partly expanded. In the bottom of the Navigator you see the Outline which at the moment contains just the Application. This picture also shows the NewFlex.mxml file, with a tabbed window in the middle showing the Source and Design tabs, with the Design tab in default. At the bottom of this window you can also access the Design (default) or the Code with the appropriate tab. On the right you see the MX application's window with its layout, style, and so on.

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