9.9. Summary

In this chapter, you learned a great deal about arranging layouts in Flex. You dove into the general layout types and learned how to manage component content with the Display List and ActionScript. You reviewed the concepts of explicit and percentage-based sizing, and you gained a deeper respect for the work Flex handles when rendering your layouts. You learned about a few new containers, and you also learned some tactics for constructing layouts using constraints and bindings.

There was plenty to cover in this chapter, but everything you’ve learned has an immediate use. In the next chapter, you’ll learn about the Form container and how you can automate input formatting and validation on the fly.