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Flash Components & Flex Components (Adobe Flex)

What is Flex? Flex is an open source software application development framework from Adobe that allows you to create rich Internet applications (RIA). Flex was originally created by Macromedia, sometimes called Flex Server software, and both Flex 1.0 and Flex 1.5 were released by Macromedia along with the Flex Builder (IDE) and Macromedia Flash components, prior to Macromedia being acquired by Adobe. Since then Adobe has carried on with the development of the Adobe Flex platform and Adobe Flex RIA environment, with the release of Adobe Flex 2.0 in June 2006, that significantly changed the licensing and deployment model, making the adoption of Adobe Flex 2 SDK more widespread.

Adobe Flex 3.0 was released in Feb 2008 and this added Adobe AIR support for Flex developers to use inside the Flex 3 SDK . Most recently in Mar 2010, Flex 4.0 (known as project Gumbo when it was in development) was released and with this launch the Flex Builder IDE was renamed to Flash Builder.

What is a Flex component? A Flex component is a pre-built piece of software or code that you can re-use inside your Flash application or Flex app. Flex components usually have a visual interface as part of the Flex GUI (Flex Graphical User Interface) and these Flex controls or Flex widgets can be used to add additional functionality to your Flash app. For example, you can get Flex components that help you visualize your data in a map display format (Flex maps), or a Flex component that shows your data in a gauge display (Flex gauges), in fact you can build a Flash BI app (Flex Business Intelligence) or a Flex dashboard to display your data using Flash components very easily. ActionScript, the Adobe Flex scripting language, allows you to control the user interface and app behavior dynamically at run-time, giving you great flexibility to change the look and feel of your app with ActionScript based Flex components.

In this filtered view of our product catalog, you will find Flex compatible products that have been pre-built by software experts for you to re-use in your next Flex project. You can read about the products, evaluate the products using our Flex downloads, compare the Flex components and read Flex reviews from your fellow Flex programmers. If you like what you see, you can also buy and license the Flex product of your choice. Finally there is also a Flex News RSS data feed for you to subscribe to, to be kept up to date with all the new releases we add to our Flex component product catalog.

1. Flexmonster Pivot Table & Chart Component

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Publisher: Flexmonster Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / Flash MX Component / Flash MX 2004 Component / Flash Component

Powerful reporting and visualization of business data from OLAP. Flexmonster Pivot Table & Charts Web Component allows you to visualize complex business data in your web application. It supports Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP cubes, SQL (MS SQL, MySQL and others) databases or static CSV files. The OLAP data is represented in compact yet interactive visual reports - multidimensional tables and charts. Flexmonster Pivot Table functionality is fast and can work with large data volumes up to 100Mb. Flexmonster Pivot Charts are interactive, dashboard-like, and powerful to navigate over aggregated data. The tool is ideal for business intelligence data analysis. Every CEO can use it, yet it is robust enough to please the CIO as well.
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2. IBM ILOG Elixir Standard V3.0

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Publisher: IBM ILOG Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / Flex Component

Data visualization components for Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. IBM® ILOG Elixir® Standard 3.0 is a market leading data visualization component set for Adobe Flex 4 and Adobe AIR rich Internet application (RIA) developers (please note you will also get IBM ILOG Elixir 2.5 for Flex 3 when you buy Elixir 3.0). IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 provides 10 graphical data-display components and helps turn raw data into clear, actionable information through a highly graphical and interactive user experience. For a productive design-time experience, IBM ILOG Elixir is tightly integrated with Adobe Flash Builder 4 software. Using a component of IBM ILOG Elixir is easy; just drag and drop it into place and set its properties from within your Flash Builder development environment, add Elixir libraries to your projects in one mouse click; use wizards to create custom gauges; access the Elixir ASDoc reference documentation when you hover over a type in the editors or full documentation set from within your Flash Builder IDE.
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3. BlueOne Components for Flex Builder 3

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Publisher: ActsOne Primary Category: Datagrids Product Type: Component / Add-In / Flex Component

Add diverse Adobe Flex grid functionality to your Web site. BlueOne components are custom UI components, developed by ActsOne using Action Script 3.0, with rich functions to make Adobe Flex applications more useful. BlueOne showcases many effective, easy-to-use, rich-in-functionality components such as BlueDataGrid, Blue MDI Window and BluePanel. BlueDataGrid in particular has many functions including multi header, data merging, tree datagrid, OLAP grid, Excel export, totaling and sub totaling features.
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4. BlueOne Components for Flex Builder 2

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Publisher: ActsOne Primary Category: Datagrids Product Type: Component / Add-In / Flex Component

Add diverse Adobe Flex grid functionality to your Web site. BlueOne components are custom UI components, developed by ActsOne using Action Script 3.0, with rich functions to make Adobe Flex applications more useful. BlueOne showcases many effective, easy-to-use, rich-in-functionality components such as BlueDataGrid, Blue MDI Window and BluePanel. BlueDataGrid in particular has many functions including multi header, data merging, tree datagrid, OLAP grid, Excel export, totaling and sub totaling features.
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