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).
We're pleased to announce the formation of 2 new user groups in Orange County, CA (aka "The OC"). They are the OC Flex User Group and the OC ColdFusion User Group. For those not familiar with the OC, there is a high concentration of technology companies and high-tech industry and research here, that has earned the area the title of the "Silicon Coast". The area does get overlooked sometimes because we are sandwiched between our much larger neighbors, Los Angeles and San Diego, so it's nice to have user groups serving our very active local developer community here.
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For our new Fill Colors site, Nahuel developed a rating component to allow people to rate the Flex skins in the gallery. In this blog, we'd like to share this straightforward and easy-to-use component.
To use the rating component, you simply use a single tag <controls:Rating/> and you can specify optional attributes. We have examples of different attributes being used along with the source.
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I'd like to announce the release of our latest project, Fill Colors! As many of you know, Nahuel and Laura have been passionate users and fans of Adobe Flex from its beginning. With Fill Colors, we really want to explore and push the possibilities of what is possible with Flex. Having grown tired of the default Flex style, we wanted to manipulate the look and feel of a Flex application. We were inspired by CSS Zen Garden, and used the same idea in our application: the application cannot be modified and any changes can only be applied to the style sheet. In this way, we can show the power of applying visual changes from the style sheet alone. Whether you’re an expert or a newcomer to Adobe Flex, we hope you will explore Fill Colors and that it will stimulate your interest and challenge your skills with the fun possibilities of skinning a Flex application.
We hope to see lots of participation and people contributing Flex skins so we can showcase them for all to learn from. We have some sample skins and you can see other Flex skin examples at www.scalenine.com.
Most of all, we want you to have fun with Fill Colors! We have a contest for people to submit their best Flex skins and it runs until September 28, 2007, so show us what you can do! A big thanks to Ted Patrick for generously providing the contest prize!
Category: Flex | Design |
We wrote an article for the Web Developer’s and Designer’s Journal that has been published in the November issue titled "Create a Photo Slide Show with Flex 2 and Picasa". It guides you on how to create a simple photo slide show in Flex 2. For this article, we decided not to use ColdFusion to appeal to a broader audience, so it just consumes the XML data produced by Picasa directly.
As usual, the source is available for download and we have a sample you can see live.
View example
Download the source
An update that includes transitions has been posted
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