Flex 3 - Improved Components and SDK

Ted Patrick continues to acquaint us with new features of Flex 3. Let me remind you that he has already told about Flex 3 for designers , Flex 3 for developers . And today he talks about new components and the SDK .

So we have a wide range of changes in the Flex SDK and Flex components. These new classes and components, including AdvancedDataGrid , New Collection classes, Deep Linking API (BrowserManager) , Runtime localization and Containers supported in Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3.


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AdvancedDataGrid :
AdvancedDataGrid combines the display of hierarchical and tabular data. This includes some auxiliary classes that allow you to organize columns in groups and provide support for SummaryObjects and SummaryRows .
Here is a new collection of classes that have been added:

mx.collections.HierarchicalData
mx.collections.Grouping
mx.collections.GroupingCollection
mx.collections.GroupingField
mx.collections.HierarchicalCollectionView
mx.collections.HierarchicalCollectionViewCursor
mx.collections.ListCollectionView
mx.collections.SummaryField
mx.collections.SummaryObject
mx.collections.SummaryRow

Here are some images of the AdvancedDataGrid in action:



Deep Linking:
Using Deep Linking elements allows you to manage data in a URL using an HTML anchor (#). Using the new BrowserManager , the Flex application can communicate with the data in the URL to set and detect changes to the URL. This feature makes it easy to put data into a URL for applying bookmarks and provide a new way to enter data into a Flex application.
Added new classes:

mx.events.BrowserChangeEvent;
mx.managers.IBrowserManager;
mx.managers.BrowserManager;
mx.utils.URLUtil;
Application.historyManagementEnabled.

Well, tomorrow he promises to acquaint us with truly shocking details ... I personally wonder what he has prepared for this;)