In this lesson, instructor Tom Green demonstrates the powerful text and drawing functionality accessible from the Flash Catalyst toolbox. He shows how to create text boxes, accents, and a graphical scrollbar.

In this episode of the training series, you will learn about viewports and how they relate to the implementation of the Spark Scroller component to add scrollbars to your application.

Learn how to organize your custom Illustrator artwork in preparation for creating a repeating list in Flash Catalyst. Build the components of a basic data list, including the scrollbar and repeated elements, all without writing any code.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase walks you through an application that animates a scrolling behavior. Animations happen automatically when you click on a scrollbar’s track or up/down buttons, but this case requires custom code.

Chet Haase, formerly of the Adobe Flex SDK Team, demonstrates the new animated behaviors in the Flex 4 scrollbar and slider components.