Chapter 13. APPLYING BEHAVIORS, TRANSITIONS, AND FILTERS

Now that you've learned all of the most important skills for building applications in Flex, it's time to have some fun. All Flex visual components have a standard set of graphic filters and effects that let you create really expressive applications with minimal effort. Effects are auditory or visual changes to components, typically an animation of some form. Filters are static visual changes such as blurring or drop-shadows. In this chapter, you'll discover how incredibly easy it is to apply visual effects to your components with simple MXML.