Component Explorer Readme

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The Component Explorer application shows a simple usage for most of the MXML components available with the Adobe® Flex™ 3 framework. When you install Adobe Flex Data Visualization, you can also see examples of how you can use the charting and data visualization components.

Note: You should not run the Component Explorer on a Adobe LiveCycle EnterpriseServer. The Flex WAR will attempt to compile the mxml files causing the source view of each Explorer sample to display incorrectly.

Adding Flex Data Visualization components to an existing Component Explorer application

  1. Follow the Flex Data Visualization installation instructions to install and update the Flex Component Explorer.
  2. At a command prompt, or in a file explorer go to flex_sdk_dir/samples/explorer/charts.
  3. Run the build.bat batch file (Windows) or build.sh shell script (Mac/UNIX) to compile the examples.

Notes for Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 3

If you are editing the Component Explorer sample code from within Flex Builder, you must still compile the individual samples using the command-line compiler. Flex Builder does compile or run applications that live beneath the root of the source folder.

Notes for Adobe® Flex™ SDK

The build script for the Component Explorer assumes that you run the application from the local file system (file:/// in your browser). If you plan to run the application from a web server (http:// in your browser), change the -use-network setting in the build script to true.

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