More Degrafa skins
Before I dig too deep trying to create a Degrafa Skin Explorer (the idea) as an evolution of the Degrafa Button Explorer, I thought it would be a good idea to spend some more time with some basic...
View ArticleDegrafa Video Player, Part 1
I’m going to combine my earlier Degrafa skinning efforts with my more recent video work to create a Degrafa-skinned video player. In this post, I’ll build out all the components required for a video...
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Degrafa Video Player, Part 2
The plan is simple, take the nice Degrafa-skinned components from Part 1 and assemble them into a video player powered by the OvpNetStream class from the Open Video Player project. Design I knew right...
View ArticleFlex 4 Component States vs. Skin States
Flex 4 introduced an awesome new skinning architecture. Among other things, the new architecture provides significantly better separation between a component and its skin. Flex 4 also promotes the use...
View ArticleDrawer Component in Flex 4
I needed a good way to have a large settings panel with a minimal visual impact. The obvious answer is to hide or minimize or collapse the settings panel when not in use. I thought about using...
View ArticleBuilding Flex 4 Containers with Multiple Content Areas
Back in the days of Flex 3, if you wanted multiple content areas in your main application, you’d need to arrange some set of containers (Canvas, HBox, VBox) in the app and fill them with content. It...
View ArticleSuperTextInput – Building a Custom Component in Flex 4
I’ve been building a lot of Flex 4 custom components lately, including a sliding drawer, a multiple content area container, and now SuperTextInput. Nor will this be that last, because I think I have a...
View ArticleTerrificTabBar – Another Custom Component in Flex 4
Another day, another custom component in Flex 4. This time it’s a closeable TabBar that I’m calling TerrificTabBar, because SuperTabBar is taken. This post is basically Part 2 of my previous post on...
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Programmatic Skinning in Flex 4 — an FXG Clock
I tried to push my Flex 4 skinning skills to the limit, and the result is a fancy clock skin. (click to see it in action) The fancy clock skin overlays a very simple clock component. The Clock...
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Drag-and-Drop Revisited
It’s time to revisit drag-and-drop in Flex 4. For a long time now, my previous Drag-and-Drop in Flex 4 post has been the most popular post on this blog. I get something like 1,200 pageview/month on...
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