As promised, I’m sharing the slides for my session Under the Hood of an Advanced Flex Component that I gave at Flex Maniacs 2007 in Washington, DC. The conference was fun, and it was nice to meet a few people that I’ve known online for a while, but hadn’t seen face-to-face. Thankfully, Flex sessions at conferences are starting to go beyond the basics, and I hope that my session helped out some folks that are building more advanced components.

Session Abstract

Though the Flex 2 SDK ships with an impressive array of useful components, opportunities abound for the creation of more advanced visualizations that add new depth and interactivity to Rich Internet Applications. Treemaps, originally developed by Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland, offer an interesting way to display hierarchal data that goes beyond standard Tree components. The Flex development community is growing quickly, and many developers want a look at the process and design considerations required for the creation of a complex component. Josh Tynjala shares his open source Flex TreeMap component with an in-depth study of its data handling methods, optimization considerations, and points for extensibility.

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