Component Creation in Flex / Xcelsius

Hi Experts,
Although I've used Xcelsius fairly extensively over the past year or so, I haven't really had much interaction with Flex or designing my own components. I have a project coming up shortly where I will need to create a large map of their operations, with hundreds of control point 'hot-spots'. This can't be achieved in any scalable way via workarounds without absolutely destroying the performance.
This implies that I will need to create my own component. Are there any resources out there that outline fairly clearly (read: simplistically) the steps in creating an Xcelsius component, or even the conversion of a Flex 2 component to Xcelsius (as I can likely find some Flex tutorials)?
Thanks for the help!
-Brian

Sounds like a large XY or Bubble chart!
My experience is that you cannot just download the Flex demo and expect to be able to build your own components. It's a lot more involved than that, even if you do a Flex course it will not be geared towards an Xcelsius design process. Although built in Flex the actual language used is ActionScript for the Components and MXML (with some Actionscript) for the Properties sheet. So I would suggest a course in ActionScript first as the programming involved can be quite confusing and if you've been out of programming for a while (in my case a long while!) it will take time to understand fully what is happening. Time which I cannot afford to put in, so I have done the courses so that I can talk to developers in their language and write accurate informed specifications for components.
For a basic overview of Flex take a look at the great Introduction to Flex videos over at Lee Brimlow's site www.gotoandlearn.com. Also there are a lot of good learning resources from Adobe with their Flex in a Week videos: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/
I'd would jump at the chance of attending a BO Xcelsius Component Development course though.
Best of Luck
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