Given the big announcements this past week from Adobe regarding their abandonment of the mobile Flash Player, along with their statements about their plans for Flex, I figure it is time for me to chime in with my own thoughts. I cannot say I was surprised by these announcements. Technology waves happen all the time… Read More »
In a previous post, I showed a demo of a custom list component created with Degrafa. I received a request for the same application done with Flex 4 and FXG, so I spent a little time converting it over and here is the result. (** requires Flash Player 10)
When I started using Flex 4 I tried to get up to speed by using the new version in a manner similar to its predecessor until I came across roadblocks or when I determined I was able to take advantage of the new features I had heard about such as skinning, states, etc. I quickly… Read More »
A while back I created a few demos showing how to combine ActionScript physics engines (as well as 3d engines) with Halo components to create a physics-enabled UI. I wanted to see what could be done using the new Flex 4 Spark components and I was very surprised to find that almost nothing had been… Read More »
If you happen to be hitting an issue where an application runs fine in the debug version of the Flash player but hangs up in the normal version, read on. This could be your problem. I’ve made good use of a tip I picked up from McCune on generating a stacktrace in my logging statements… Read More »
When I started getting into Flex several years ago, the first real application I created was an online grading system for a small K-12 school that I was consulting with as a side gig. That was around 2005, and after several years of use, the school has outgrown this initial design. Since they are no… Read More »
This is my latest experiment which I’ve named the “PeekPanel”. I saw this type of animation done on my phone and figured it would be a cool way to hide options or preferences in an application. It borrows the look and feel from the FlexBook/PageFlip components already out there, but instead of simulating a book, this… Read More »
Here are the slides and the code from Austin Flex User’s Group Degrafa Presentation on January 22nd, 2009. It is a little rough since I put it together in about a day so please forgive any mistakes or typos. Also, the code samples are VERY basic; they are designed to show straight-forward drawing capabilities using… Read More »
This is a video of a prototype I put together a while back. It is a system to monitor incoming airline flight information that I wrote using Livecycle Data Services and UI components I scavenged and modified from the Flex Interface Guide site and the Network Monitor demo. Incoming JMS messages containing flight information are… Read More »
This demo shows my initial attempt at using Degrafa skinning. I wanted to customize the tiles in the list so that they would look unique and also provide a nifty way of displaying a list of options for the selected tile. You can see the result by clicking on the lower right corner of each… Read More »