Ubber Newbie Looking for Basic Samples

Question

Hello- I've spent the last 3 hours or so trying to create a very basic calculator in Flex (aka: add a couple input cells). Spent time looking through videos, reading documentation, etc. Much of it assumes programming background or web development experience of which I have little.
So, wanted to find some very basic application samples I could take apart and learn from. I found some, but they are pretty advanced and most depend on communication to/from the internet (tons of facebook and photo apps).
I'm just looking for a simple calculator/mortgage calculator application I can take apart and learn from.
Anyone know where I can find examples for super basic users?
Thanks!
- Mr. Bill

Answer 1

Here is an extremely basic example of one way it can be done. You of course would need more operators, conditional code to handle those operators, and several other functions and formulas - especially for mortgages - but hopefully this will get you started on the basic method.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" height="208" width="444">
   <mx:Script>
     <![CDATA[
     private function BasicCalc():void
     var CalculatedValue:Number=Number(TextInput1.text) + Number(TextInput2.text);
     ResultText.text=String(CalculatedValue);    
     ]]>
     </mx:Script>
    <mx:TextInput id="TextInput1" x="24" y="41" width="50" textAlign="right" text="1"/>
    <mx:TextInput id="TextInput2"  x="24" y="71" width="50" textAlign="right" text="2"/>
    <mx:Text id="ResultText" x="44" y="101" text="0" width="30" textAlign="right"/>
    <mx:Button id="CalcButton" x="82" y="41" label="Calc" width="57" height="52"  click="BasicCalc()"/>
</mx:Application>