“Bitmaps In Flex” is the presentation I’ll be delivering at the 360|Flex conference in Atlanta next week.

“Bitmaps In Flex” is about using some advanced ActionScript APIs to achieve visual effects in a Flex application that are both useful and cool. It assumes the audience is familiar with the the basic use of the Flex Image component and the use of bitmaps in styling, and goes a step beyond, by exploring the ActionScript Bitmap API and its application in Flex. The material to be presented is essential to developing an application that is about imagery: illustration, data visualization, medical imagery, scientific imagery, and so forth. The material also points the way to enhancing the visual impact of any application, by accessing effects that don’t come right out of the Flex box.

This talk dives deep into the Bitmap API, showing what can be accomplished and how. It swoops over best practices for creating custom Flex components, as related to bitmaps. It stops briefly at several sample mini-applications along the way. If you’re a “show me the code” type, you’ll be happy to know that the composition of the presentation is 60% code review, 40% slides.

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