Flex”i”MMI

In an application, you often must send messages to your users. Some messages require an acknowledgement or a decision from the user: in Flex, the Alert class is used for this. But sometimes, your message is "for information" only. In this case, the Alert and its OK button represent a disturbing and ennoying additional click.

Here comes the Flex Notification, that actually mimics any other notification that may be found in other applications, poping up from the bottom right corner of your screen.

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Written by Arnaud
Tags: Component, Flex, GradientCanvas, Notification

This week, I received Flex examples of components and applications using the GradientComponents. I was very happy to get this examples and find them really cool.

Here there are:

• EAIGurus with his Acrobat.com button : an impressive animated button that opens a panel containg information or what you want. This reproduces the front page of Acrobat.com.
• Develop your Dream with an application that localizes international airports on a Google Map. Just click the map and expand the marker.

Thank you to them !

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Written by Arnaud
Tags: Component, Flex, GradientCanvas, GradientComponents

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Flex GradientComponents Style Explorer

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Written by Arnaud
Tags: AIR, Applications, Flex

Yesterday I published an article on new components with background and border gradients of colors, extending HBox, VBox and Box. These components were directly inspired by the GradientCanvas that I created a few month ago.

Directly inspired and even exactly the same… as only the parent class changed  :roll: . So I wanted to refactor the code in order to share the 98% of common code. I have done this using include statements. This worked well and I tried to do more…

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Written by Arnaud
Tags: Component, Flex, gradient, GradientCanvas, GradientComponents

Today, I spent a little time to turn the GradientCanvas to 3 new container components : GradientHBox, GradientVBox and GradientBox, extending respectively the Flex HBox, VBox and Box.

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Written by Arnaud
Tags: Component, Flex, gradient, GradientCanvas, GradientComponents