Here are the slides and the code from Austin Flex User’s Group Degrafa Presentation on January 22nd, 2009. It is a little rough since I put it together in about a day so please forgive any mistakes or typos. Also, the code samples are VERY basic; they are designed to show straight-forward drawing capabilities using Degrafa and why it is so important to Flex developers. :)
Flight Monitoring Demo Video
This is a video of a prototype I put together a while back. It is a system to monitor incoming airline flight information that I wrote using Livecycle Data Services and UI components I scavenged and modified from the Flex Interface Guide site and the Network Monitor demo. Incoming JMS messages containing flight information are pushed to the UI and displayed in realtime. It was just a proof of concept and since it was for a client I cannot provide the source ( sorry :( ) but it is based on LCDS and open source components from Adobe so you can check out their code if you want to see what I used as a starting point.
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Custom Component with Degrafa Skinning
This demo shows my initial attempt at using Degrafa skinning. I wanted to customize the tiles in the list so that they would look unique and also provide a nifty way of displaying a list of options for the selected tile. You can see the result by clicking on the lower right corner of each tile to reveal the hidden options. This is similar to a pop-up button, but it is skinned and masked to slide out to the side. I’ve added sound effects and included some filtering animations that I pinched and tweaked from other demos I’ve come across. As always, the source is included. Enjoy. :)
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My own TileUI – Part 1
Ever since Doug McCune first showed what could be accomplished when you combine Flex with physics and 3D in his TileUI project, I’ve been curious in learning how he did it. He hasn’t posted the source yet and rather than wait for him to give up the goods, I figured I’d try to break down what he showed in his demo and replicate it.
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My own TileUI – Part 2
This version is not nearly as cool as the previous one I posted. It doesn’t have any of the cool selection or stacking features and there is no 3D in this version. It was just a test app that I built to experiment with FOAM.
Flex Animated List Component and Source
Here is a Flex list component that animates the rows when an item is selected. There are also animations for the ‘new’ and ‘delete’ operations. It is one of the first Flex components that I wrote and I posted this example a few months ago, but it was before I joined the MXNA aggregator so I’m reposting it again. I’m also including the source code this time.
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Understanding Custom Flex Component Development
I’ve been refining my custom Flex component development for a while but I still smile when I come across someone’s definition of the basics that makes what I’ve already learned even more understandable. I came across Mike Nimer’s post about slides from the Flex Camp in Chicago and after reading through them I figured I’d post a summary of the contents on my own blog just to have a reference post for my own use.