Customizing the OpenFlux ScrollBar
At the 360|Flex Day 1 Keynote, Mark Anders presented on Flex 4, Thermo and Flash Player 10 (video here). One of his demos was a custom scroll bar that was easily built with Flex 4/Thermo, but...
View ArticleOpenFlux + Degrafa = FluxCharts
Last night I started playing around with the new GeometryRepeater/PropertyModifier classes in Degrafa and decided it would be fun to create an OpenFlux chart component. The code consists of a Chart...
View ArticleOpenFlux DataGrid Component (with view source)
I previously wouldn't have even thought of developing my own DataGrid component from scratch but with OpenFlux's help it's super easy (Or at least easy enough to want to attempt it). Over the last...
View ArticleOpenFlux: Custom Expanding DataGridRow (view source enabled)
The current project I'm on in the mockups shows a DataGrid component that requires the ability to expand the row height to show more details on the selected item. Although this sounds simple to do, the...
View ArticleOpenFlux: Tree and TreeDataGrid Components (view source enabled)
Ok, so after getting a working OpenFlux DataGrid component I decided the next obvious step is to try and build a TreeDataGrid component. Although there is still more work to be done, I spent a few...
View ArticleOpenFlux Independant From Flex
Over the last month I've been working on getting OpenFlux independant from UIComponent and many of the other large Flex classes with a goal to create a much ligher framework. OpenFlux Application...
View ArticleHere’s 5 3D Layouts for Flex 4
I spent some time converting the OpenFlux 3D layouts to Flex 4 last week and have attached the example with source code. This includes CoverFlow (horizontal and vertical), Carousel, Spiral and Time...
View ArticleUsing MXML without Flex (Example and Source)
I made a few minor changes to the MinimalComps project from Keith Peters and got it playing nicely with MXML. The below application compiles to a tiny 23KB yet makes use of MXML and even data binding....
View ArticleSkinning MinimalComps with Degrafa
Just a quick post to show how you can utilize Degrafa and MXML to skin the MinimalComps components. Currently this adds just over 50kb to your SWF but it's on on going effort to lower this and minimize...
View ArticleIntroducing the Swiz [URLMapping] Metadata Processor
Swiz 1.0 has introduced the ability to create your own custom metadata processors. Although the 1.0 release is fairly new, many custom processors have already been developed by members of the Flex...
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