Adobe Flex is the tool of choice for many web developers when it comes to building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Developers are picking up Flex with great speed. One of the reasons for this is that Flex programming is relatively easy to learn if you’re already familiar with XHTML.
Flex applications can be developed to run on user’s desktop. Now you can develop and launch an application that runs in a web browser and as a desktop application. Deploying an application to a user’s desktop with Adobe AIR is easy, users just need to install the AIR runtime and your RIA on their machine.
In today’s post we provide you with some essential Flex resources – Flex components,Flex Skins & Themes, Online Flex Apps, Flex Frameworks and Flex Tutorials. Continue reading ‘Flex Applications Themes and skin download’
This application is intended to help development and maintenance of Cairngorm-based applications, by providing a monitor able to log internal Cairngorm operations and events, and to inspect internal Cairngorm objects, such as the ModelLocator, Commands, Events and even services.
It uses a “monkey-patched” version of Cairngorm 2.2.1 for Flex 3, and needs only a few lines of code to be integrated into your application.
Features
- Monitor internal event flow of Cairngorm framework
- Inspect the ModelLocator
- Monitor all bindings and collection change events on the ModelLocator (recursively)
- Display all commands and monitor command execution
- Display and monitor HTTP Services
- Shows stack traces (needs Flash Player Debug)
- Monitor WebService and RemoteObject operationsNEW
- Command and Notification historyNEW
Application cases
- Check your command flow
- Pinpoint source line where a command started
- Check parameters and results of HTTP services
- Check service execution times
- Understand how your application works
- Check data flow and values
- Observe how Cairngorm works Continue reading ‘Flex Cairngorm Console’
PROBLEM SUMMARY
You want to use a SWF file with a set of own symbols in order to customize Combobox states.
SOLUTION SUMMARY
Use the upSkin, overSkin, downSkin, and disabledSkin style properties of the ComboBox class to apply custom symbols to any combobox. These attributes can be set directly on a ComboBox instance or as part of a CSS style definition.
EXPLANATION
The first thing to do is create a file in Flash and ComboBoxSkins.swf within it to create 4 symbols of type MovieClip with different states of the ComboBox. These symbols should be named: ComboBox_upSkin, ComboBox_downSkin, ComboBox_overSkin, ComboBox_disabledSkin
If we want to put the CSS inline style do the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:ComboBox x="196" y="135"
upSkin="@Embed(source='ComboBoxSkins.swf', symbol='ComboBox_upSkin')"
overSkin="@Embed(source='ComboBoxSkins.swf', symbol='ComboBox_overSkin')"
downSkin="@Embed(source='ComboBoxSkins.swf', symbol='ComboBox_downSkin')"
disabledSkin="@Embed(source='ComboBoxSkins.swf', symbol='ComboBox_disabledSkin')">
<!-- PUT HERE THE OPTIONS OF COMBOBOX -->
</mx:ComboBox>
</mx:Application>
Continue reading 'How to skin a combobox from Flash'
Flex Component Kit Alpha for Flex 2.0.1
The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component. This is an Alpha version that was built for Flex 2.0.1. The final version will be included as part of the Flex 3 SDK. You can watch the presentation at http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p75214263/ to learn more about the component kit. It includes the steps required to prepare your Flash content for Flex, and examples of various interaction possibilities…. Components here
Flex Components
Check out Tour de Flex – an AIR application that contains samples for the most popular components available to Flash Platform developers.
Components are the building blocks of the Flex framework. With them you are able to prototype, build and deploy your applications in record time.
The open source Flex framework includes a robust set of components and containers right out of the box. On top of the components that come with the Flex framework, there are a number of commercial components available, as well as community components available.
Continue reading ‘Free Flex components Resources’
