Hello Group,

This page is intended to give newbie's a headstart in Flex and will try to add as and when I get new link to share. I request the group to reply to this page if they have a new link to share, with their short description, I will incorporate it. Please avoid direct blog home page URI's as much as possible.

- Anand

• Flex Documentation link:  http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/flex3_documentation.zip
• Component Explorer:  http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html
• Style Explorer: http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html 
• Tour De Flex (Download and Install it Will solve your lots of Questions- Requires AIR) : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/
• Adobe Flex in a Week: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
• Adobe Online resources: http://www.anandvardhan.com/adobe-resources/

• Flex 2 FMS Explorer

http://www.flash-communications.net/technotes/flex2FMSExplorer/flex2FMSExplorer.htmlHelp: http://www.flash-communications.net/technotes/flex2FMSExplorer/

• Away3D explorer for Flex

http://www.nielsbruin.nl/flex_examples/away3d/Download from : http://away3d.com/downloads

• Flex 2 Primitive Explorer

http://www.flexibleexperiments.com/Flex/PrimitiveExplorer/Flex2PrimitiveExplorer.html

• Flex Examples

http://blog.flexexamples.com/

• Flex 2 Component Explorer

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

• Flex 3 Component Explorer

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html

• Flex 2 Style Explorers

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

• Flex 3 Style Explorers

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html

• Charting Components Explorer

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/ChartSampler/app.html

• JAM – Just ActionScript and MXML

http://www.onflex.org/code/2006/08/fresh-jam-flex-app-right-click-for.html

• FlexSpy – To modify and inspect all the visual components off Flex

http://www.mieuxcoder.com/data/2007/12/FlexSpy-1.2/dashboard.html

• A directory of Adobe Flex components

http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/

• Flex Style Creator

http://www.flexonrails.net/stylescreator/public/

• Easing Effects Explorer

http://www.madeinflex.com/img/entries/2007/05/customeasingexplorer.html

• Color Explorer

http://kuler.adobe.com/

• Cairngorm Diagram Explorer

http://www.cairngormdocs.org/tools/CairngormDiagramExplorer.html

• Resize Manager

http://www.flex-flex.net/flex/ResizeManager/ResizeManager.htmlhttp://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/2007/03/creating_resizable_and_draggab.htmlhttp://www.teotigraphix.com/explorers/ResizeManagerFX/ResizeManagerFXExplorer.html

• Flex Enhanced Button Skin Explorer

http://www.wabysabi.com/flex/enhancedbuttonskin/

• Flex Book

http://www.rubenswieringa.com/code/as3/flex/Book/

• Distortion Effects Explorer

http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/adobe/blog/distortionEffects/effectCube/

• Random Walk

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/RandomWalk/IconWalk.html

• Flex Super Panel

http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/files/flex/SuperPanel/v1_5/MainView.html

• Chart Range Selection Component

http://www.stretchmedia.ca/code_examples/chart_range_selection/main.html

• Dual Slider

http://www.visualconcepts.ca/flex2/dualslider2/DualSlideTest.html

• Advance Form

http://www.renaun.com/flex2/AdvancedForm/

• Drag Tile

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/DragTile/Alphabet.html

• Dictionary – Word Information

http://mark-shepherd.com/thesaurus/

• Flex Text Effects Explorer

http://www.sakri.net/technology/flash/flex/flex_text_effects/FlexTextEffectsExplorer.html

• Flex Presentations – You can also add your presentations in this http://www.asfusion.com/projects/cf-presenter/
• MXNA Reader

http://www.asfusion.com/mxna/

• Drop Shadow

http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/drop-shadow-en-flash-8

• Bevel Filters

http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/bevel-filter-en-flash-8

• Bevel Filters

http://www.jamesward.com/census/

• Getting Started

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Getting+Started

• Flex 3 Help

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/index.html

• Reflection Explorer

http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/files/flex/ReflectionExplorer/v1_0/ReflectionExplorer.html

• DZone – Community for developers

http://www.dzone.com

• Flex.org – Community for Flex developers

http://flex.org

• Degrafa – Declarative graphics framework for Flex. Degrafa allows you to use MXML markup to draw shapes, make complex graphics, create skins and also includes advanced CSS support.

http://www.degrafa.com/

• Text layout Editor

http://www.madeinflex.com/img/entries/2007/05/customeasingexplorer.html

• Custom Easing Function Explorer

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/

• Flex Games

http://s3.amazonaws.com/apphost/MGB.html

• tour-de-flex Component Explorer

http://arunbluebrain.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/tour-de-flex-component-explorer/

• Flex Samples

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/?navID=sampleshttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/community_samples.html

• Flex Applications

http://www.onflex.org/flexapps/applications/Flipper/

• Scrawl Application

http://www.thebetterside.com/scrawl/ScrawlExample4.html

• Display Shelf

http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html

• Rating Component

http://www.flexibleexperiments.com/Flex/RatingComponent/Blog_Post_Rating_Component.html

• Create Flow Chart

http://my.lovelycharts.com/

• Designer Effects for Flex

http://www.efflex.org/

• find answers to your Flex questions

http://sandboxviolation.appspot.com

• Flex 3 regular expression explorer

http://ryanswanson.com/regexp/#start

• Adobe bugs and issue management system

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa

• Rich Spatial Flex viewer

http://flex888.com/lab/geoweb/flexviewer/

• Color tool

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace.offering&offeringid=10763&marketplaceid=1

• Advance data visualization for flex

http://www.ilog.com/products/ilogelixir/demos/

• RIA Trax Explorer

http://www.insideria.com/2009/03/riatrax-flex-event-tracking-no.htmlhttp://labs.happytoad.com/RIATrax/explorer/

• 25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources

http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/03/06/25-excellent-and-useful-adobe-air-tutorials-resources.html

• Visualization Explorer

http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/visualizationexplorer/

• CSS3 Box Explorer

http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/css3boxexplorer/

• Scroller Explorer

http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/scrollerexplorer/

• Pixel 3D Explorer

http://lab.benstucki.net/archives/pixel3dexplorer/

• Google Social Graph Explorer

http://dreamingwell.com/examples/flex/googleSocial/GoogleSocial.htmlhttp://www.tarasnovak.com/lab/FlexSVGExplorer/01/FlexSVGExplorer.html#

• Component Framework

http://blog.benstucki.net/index.php?paged=10

• Opensocial

http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-actionscript-client-sdk/http://code.google.com/p/as3opensociallib/

• Library of Flex Components

http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/

• Open Flux – Framework

http://code.google.com/p/openflux/

• Degrafa – Declarative graphics framework for Flex. Degrafa allows you to use MXML markup to draw shapes, make complex graphics, create skins and also includes advanced CSS support.

http://code.google.com/p/degrafa/

• FlexLib Component List

http://code.google.com/p/flexlib/wiki/ComponentList

• Firebug for flex applications

http://code.google.com/p/fxspy/

• lightweight logger extension for Flex 3-4, AIR and Flash 9-10 applications

http://code.google.com/p/flash-thunderbolt/

• List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools

http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/21/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/

• List of 22 ActionScript 3.0 API’s

http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/2007/08/13/list-of-22-actionscript-30-apis/

• ActionScript 3.0 APIs developed specifically for Adobe Flex and AIR.

http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/actionscript-3-apis/

• ASMailer : The ASMailer class sends emails using an SMTP server. ASMailer sends mail without the need of a server side language like PHP or JSP.

http://asmailer.riaforge.org/

• Away3d 2.1 : Away3D is a realtime 3d engine for flash in ActionScript 3.0

http://away3d.com/away3d-21-demos-docs

• Bullet Graph : A good way to show actual time spent vs. the estimated time for a project

http://agileui.blogspot.com/2008/05/bullet-graph-free-flex-component.html

• Degrafa : Declarative Graphics Framework

http://www.degrafa.com/

• Desuade Partigen : Desuade Partigen is an extension for Adobe Flash which lets you create realistic vector and raster particle effects (such as fire, smoke, sparkles), without requiring you to do any complex coding.

http://desuade.com/products/partigen/

• EasyMVC : EasyMVC is an event driven MVC framework which focuses on flexibility while not getting in the developers way.

http://projects.simb.net/easyMVC/

• Five3D : vector-based 3d rendering framework by Mathieu Badimon – has just received a significant update, bringing it to version 2.1. New features this version brings: Back Face Culling, Flat Shading, Z-sorting, Space Drawing functions, Bitmap3D class, Video3D class, Sprite2D Class, Letter Spacing, Text Width

http://five3d.mathieu-badimon.com/

• Flash Player 10 API Documentation!

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/flashplayer10_as3langref_052008.zip

• Flex 3 Performance and Memory Profiling : Memory profiling lets you look at objects being created, take snapshots and compare them. Performance profiling allows snapshots for looking at cumulative and internal time.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Performance_and_Memory_Profiling

• Flex 3 RSLs : Use Flex 3 runtime-shared-libraries (RSLs) to reduce the size of your applications and thereby reduce the time required to download the application. RSLs are just SWF files whose code is used as a shared library between different application SWF files.

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:Flex_3_RSLs

• Flex 4 States syntax changes : Flex 4 will target all of the legacy usage scenarios of classic Flex states functionality (stateful components, states as application views or pages, effects and transitions between view states, etc.). This document outlines what is primarily a syntax change for the existing functionality.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax

• Flex and Flex Developers Magazine

http://www.ffdmag.com/

• Flex Designer Scroll Bars : skinny little tone on tone scroll bars that have no scroll arrows

http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/05/designer_scroll.html

• FlexMDI : flexmdi is a robust, extensible Multiple Document Interface framework for Adobe Flex.

http://code.google.com/p/flexmdi/

• Flex Resource Bundles : Resource bundle is a set of values that you externalize from your source code in a properties file. And it can be swapped out at compile time or, with Flex 3, at runtime. Think of it like a style sheet for values.

http://blog.extends.eventdispatcher.org/roger/introduction-to-flex-resource-bundles/

• FOAM : two-dimensional rigid body physics engine written in ActionScript 3.0.

http://code.google.com/p/foam-as3/

• Go3D : Cool Tweening Engine, the Go3D which give you more control over moving objects in 3d space.

http://code.google.com/p/goplayground/source/checkout

• GoogleMap Flex Component : A new component for Flex Developers who want to add more control or be very well organized.

http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=140

• Guttershark : Actionscript 3 library that pushes some simple conventions on you, only to make you faster as a developer. It’s a pattern for Flash development that cuts out a huge amount of time, especially when you’re in the first stages of development.

http://www.guttershark.net/

• ILOG Elixir : A suite of professional user interface controls that gives developers a rich collection of innovative and interactive data display components. It includes ready-to-use schedule displays, map displays, dials, gauges, 3D and radar charts, a treemap chart and organization charts.

http://www.ilog.com/products/ilogelixir/

• LoadingImage : Takes a regular Flex Image component, and adds a self contained ProgressBar to it to show its own loading progress.

http://www.munkiihouse.com/?p=135

• Logger Library and RIALogger : The Logger component provides classes to that abstract the Flex 2 Log and logging Target classes. It provides a simple approach to logging messages with category information and provide hooks into multiple targets. It supports the following logging targets by default: RIALoggerTarget, TraceTarget (trace()), XPanelTarget, and FlexTracePanelTarget. The LogController also provides functionality to allow you to setup your own custom logging Target.

http://renaun.com/blog/flex-components/rialogger/

• Mate : Mate is a tag-based, event-driven Flex framework.

http://mate.asfusion.com/index.cfm

• Merapi : Merapi is a new project that is a framework for connecting AIR to java at the desktop.

http://adamflater.blogspot.com/search/?q=merapi

• MinimalComps : Minimal AS3 UI Component Set : CheckBox, PushButton, HSlider, VSlider, InputText, ProgressBar, RadioButton, ColorChooser (text input only) and Panel.

http://www.bit-101.com/minimalcomps/

• OpenFlux : OpenFlux is an open-source Flex component framework which allows developers to create radically new and custom Flex components.

http://code.google.com/p/openflux/

• PeekPanel : Cool way to hide options or preferences in an application. It borrows the look and feel from the FlexBook/PageFlip components already out there, but instead of simulating a book, this is more of a way to use the “flip” to hide other components.

http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=29

• PlexiGlass

http://www.bobjim.com/category/plexiglass/

• Share (Document Services API) : Online service provided by Adobe that allows you to share, publish, and organize documents online.

http://code.google.com/p/as3sharelib/downloads/list

• Slide : Slide is an application framework for projects built in Flex 2 or 3. Using familiar design patterns, Slide provides a robust MVC structure, view state management decoupled from view implementation and a flexible approach to model and controller access, eliminating need for singleton classes.

http://code.google.com/p/flex-slide/

• Sandy 3.0.2 : Sandy is an intuitive and user-friendly 3D open-source library.

http://www.flashsandy.org/versions/3.0

• Sprouts : Sprouts is an open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and Flex projects.

http://www.projectsprouts.org/

• Universal Mind Extensions for Adobe Cairngorm : Universal Mind has extended the classic Adobe 2.2.x Cairngorm version to provide many productivity and maintenance enhancements.

http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/

• Video Tutorial on Compiling for Flash Player 10

http://theflashblog.com/?p=383

• Virtual Space (AS 3.0) V. 1.0 : The Virtual Space is an AS3 component that can be used to create virtual-tour type visualizations very easily. Simply specify 6 images to be used for top, bottom, left, right, front, and back. Then, position the camera, set the initial view, and specify interaction parameters.

http://www.afcomponents.com/components/virtual_space_as3/

• TextArea Explorer

http://www.techizzles.com/2009/03/14-most-productive-adobe-air-applications/

• Noise Explorer

http://www.bit-101.com/explorers/NoiseExplorer.swf

• Perlin Explorer

http://www.bit-101.com/explorers/PerlinExplorer.swf

• Threshold Explorer

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=819

• PixelBender

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/demos/pixelbender/http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=26&loc=en_us

• TiltShift Generator

http://labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift/

• Flex 3 Regular Expression Explorer

http://ryanswanson.com/regexp/#start




Anand