It seems that 2008 will bring a lot traveling for us. First, I will present a session at cf.Objective() in early May and then I will present at WebManiacs towards the end of May. We also hope to attend 360 Flex in Atlanta and most likely 360 Flex in SoCal closer to home.
read more Category: Flex | Miscellaneous |I added some transitions and a progress bar to our Photoshow example.
For the transitions, I wanted the previous image to fade out and the new image to fade in. But in the original code, the image was binding to the currently selected image, so whenever the selected image changed (by clicking on next or previous buttons), the source of the image would change. The biggest problem with this is that if I changed the currently selected image as soon as the user would click the buttons, the image would change without waiting for the fade out to complete. One of the main changes made to the code is that before I can change the source of the image, I need to wait until the previous image has completely faded out. I do this by using the effectEnd event of the Fade effect to know when this happens, and only then make the change in the image source.
read more Category: Flex |The Orange County Flex User Group just had its first meeting, and it was standing room only! We had a dozen RSVPs but over double that number actually showed up! Space was tight, but everyone was excited at our kickoff meeting, which went over 2 hours. Laura gave an introductory presentation on Flex, which was a springboard for a lot of lively discussion and debate throughout the night. What made the discussions interesting was hearing different perspectives from our diverse audience, which included people from Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, Java, .NET and other technologies.
read more Category: Flex | Miscellaneous |The coolest new tool showcased by Adobe at Chicago MAX had to be Thermo. From everyone I spoke to at MAX who saw it, the consensus is clear -- Thermo is HOT! This is a design tool that lets designers instantly create a working rich internet application from their artwork and wireframes! With a simple click of the mouse, the Flex source code is instantly generated from their artwork. For example, you can import content from Adobe Photoshop and Thermo will instantly generate the mxml for it. To really appreciate what a powerful took this will be for designers, take a look at the sneak preview I shot.
read more Category: Flex | Design |There are a some new features available for skinning in Flex 3 beta 2. Some of them are covered by Juan and NJ. But I want to focus in one specific topic: Stateful Skins (without Flash).
