What Is FLEX?

Flex is a free, open source framework for building highly interactive, expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. It provides a modern, standards-based language and programming model. (Why uses FLEX?) Flex also includes a rich component library with more than 100 proven, extensible UI components for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs), as well as an interactive Flex application debugger. (From Adobe)

Start FLEX Learning by Sothink SWF Decompiler

Before you learn FLEX, make sure you have downloaded and installed Sothink SWF Decompiler on your computer. And then open FLEX SWF in the program, you will get:

  For Beginners and intermediates:

• Capture FLEX SWF file from IE/Firefox online.
• Easily view file properties of FLEX SWF in the program, file size, compressed, file version, frame width, frame height, frame count, etc.
• Freely play FLEX SWF movie in built-in player.
• Fully control FLEX movie, play, stop, forward, backward, pause, etc.
• Take snapshot for the playing FLEX SWF movie in the preview window.
• Parse FLEX SWF, and view the file's structure and elements.

  For Advanced:

• Export FLEX SWF to FLA, SWF to FLEX project, and get MXML file and other project files.
• View and learn Adobe FLEX Component.
• Learn how to embed image, font, video,etc.
• View FLEX application source code.
• View ActionScript resources or search in source code to learn ActionScript.

Retrieve Flex Projects by Sothink SWF Decompiler

Before using Flash decompiler to retrieve SWF to FLEX project, make sure you have downloaded and installed Sothink SWF Decompiler on your computer. And then open FLEX SWF in the program, you can:

• Decompile SWF to FLA.
• Decompile SWF to FLEX project, and get MXML file and other project files. (Copyright taken by you)
• Export SWF to FLA/SWF to FLEX projects, and extract resources in batch mode. (Copyright taken by you)
• Export all resources embedded in FLEX SWF file one by one. (Copyright taken by you)

Why Uses FLEX?

FLEX is an application solution for RIA (Rich Internet Application), the programmer can easily make highly interactive, expressive web applications on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. Below lists the advantages about FLEX:

• Full compatible with almost all browsers and platforms.
• MXML in FLEX simplifies the layout design.
• Easily embed the video and audio in SWF movie.
• Apart the data from XML and SOAP, and bind them to element on interface.
• FLEX is a visual programming environment.
• Support CSS completely.