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Foundation Flex for Designers excerpt: Flex and Fireworks
We mentioned in the first chapter that Flex plays well with graphics programs — in the case of Fireworks CS3, it is more like they are so close, they finish each other’s sentences. Fireworks CS3 comes with some specifically built tools that allow you to create the layouts for your Flex project in Fireworks and then export them into Flex Builder. This enables you to leverage the graphics tools of Fireworks and lets you design within an environment that you may already be familiar with.
Along with the new features of Fireworks, such as new symbols and Scale 9, there is an export feature that lets you save a layout in Fireworks complete with the MXML that can build it in Fireworks.
Figure 1. Our final layout in Fireworks
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Scaling components in Fireworks
- Matching size or images and components
- Alignment
- Exporting layouts to Flex Builder
Prerequisites
Some knowledge of Flex and Fireworks.
Requirements
In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:
Flex Builder 3
Fireworks CS3
Required files
- Download the files (ZIP, 5.6MB)
Read the complete chapter
- Chapter 4: Flex and Fireworks (ZIP, 1.1MB)
About the authors
LordAlex Leon is an active member of the Flash community and a well-respected industry leader with over seven years of experience creating content and applications for the Internet and devices. He is the founder of LordAlex Works™ (LAW), a Flash platform consultancy firm based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, helping new media and content providers deliver intelligent, rich Internet content and powerful applications based on the Flash platform.
LordAlex runs a personal blog dedicated to the Flash platform and related technologies that you can read at www.lordalex.org.
Greg Goralski is an interdisciplinary interactive designer based in Toronto. He is an alumni of the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab and the Interactive Project Lab. He has won Gold at the National Post Design Exchange awards and has presented his work at numerous festivals, including the World Expo in Aichi, Japan. As a professor at the Humber College School of Media Studies, he divides his time among playing with technology, training the next generation of interactive designers, and being inspired by his students. Greg also drinks too much coffee, and should really be living on a beach. His website is www.greggoralski.com.
