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Flex Drag-and-Drop, the Definitive Tutorial

Drag-and-drop lets you move components and transfer data in a Flex application via the mouse and ubiquitous "click-drag-drop" paradigm. All Flex components support drag-and-drop operations with the proper enablement.

We're going to follow these steps to learn about Drag-and-Drop in Flex:

1. Create a Project and Application
2. Create some Boxes (one for dragging, one for dropping)
3. Make the Red Box Draggable
4. Make the Blue Box a Drop Target
5. Handle the Drop
6. Show Feedback
7. Use Drag Source

Start the Tutorial now: Flex Drag-and-Drop

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