Progress with Flex 3

Somewhat irrelevant news: Please excuse my absence. I decided to take a long break, since I experienced some complications and my son was delivered a month earlier than he was due. This post was scheduled for editing and posting on March 26.

With a magic little button, I managed to connect to the FMS. Then I bit off more than I could chew with a larger set of UI components. Now, with a little data binding and a lot of ActionScript 3, I have a basic broadcaster built. I’ve read more documentation and books on ActionScript 3, Flex 3 and Flash Media Server than I care to admit, but so far I have absorbed and applied everything I have read. Building my first RIA has been every bit of fun and frustration as I expected, only on a much slower timeline than I had hoped. For every 1 hour I expected to work on a task, I have actually worked 4.

Many of the things I built came from old sample projects. I translated them from Flash to Flex, then from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3. You can download my sample projects, supply your own RTMP address and see instant results:

• playback-stream.zip
• make-connection.zip
• nice-ui.zip
• data-binding.zip

I hope these examples help you learn Flex faster than I did.