Transitions and Easing in FLEX
Here is a nice video from ADOBE TV about Transitions and Easing in FLEX...
Free Flex Builder 3 for CS4 Users
As a Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Master Collection customer, you are eligible to use Adobe Flex Builder 3 at no additional cost. You will need to first download a trial version of Flex Builder 3 and then activate Standard edition using the serial number we email to you.
Flex Builder 3 serial numbers are only available to customers who have purchased a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium or Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection on or after September 15, 2009.
You need to provide your CS4 Serial Number in a request form. If your Serial number is valid and meets all the conditions, *Flex Build 3 Standard Edition Serial number will be emailed to you.
*Conditions applied
Creating Pop-Up Windows in Flex/AIR
Pop-ups are a vital part of any application. In this post, we are going to look into how a popup window can be designed in FLEX/AIR.
PopUpManager class is the one used to create new top-level windows and can be used to place above all the visible windows (making it a popUp). You can remove popUps as well using this class.
We can make these windows modal as well.
We can create a popUp using createPopUp method.
public static createPopUp(parent:DisplayObject, class:Class, modal:Boolean = false):IFlexDisplayObject
Here parent is the window over which the popup is going to appear, class is the reference to the custom MXML component which is going to act as pop-up, modal represents the Boolean value to decide on whether the popup is going to be modal or not.
FileSystem Componets in Adobe AIR
Flex File system components are the ones which combine the functionality of list controls like List, Tree, DataGrid etc with File System details. Using these File System components, we can design something like File Brower for your computer with in a matter of minutes.
Here are the Flex File System components:
- FileSystemComboBox: Shows hierarchical directories of selected directory
- FileSystemTree: displays contents of a directory as Tree
- FileSystemList: Shows the contents of a directory as List
- FileSystemDataGrid: Displays file information in a grid format
- FileSystemHistoryButton: Lets us move through the navigational history of another control
Skinning Flex/AIR Components
Skinning is like changin the look of the components. To skin Flex components, we can use either Bitmaps or swfs or programmatically we can skin.
In this post we will be looking into skinning Flex Components graphically i.e. using Bitmap images and using SWFs. Using skins we can define the whole appearance, different states of the components.
For example, we will see skinning a button now. We can give whole new look to different states of button like down, up, over etc.