Flexible Experiments

Degrafa for Flex in Action: SVG Tiger in MXML

admin — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:22:53 +0000

Juan has posted an example showing just how complicated of graphic, Degrafa for Flex can render. In that particular example the famous cubic spline tiger was chosen as it’s a rather complex svg document. The path geometry data in that svg graphic was copied directly into Degrafa path short hand data objects, with no changes to the geometry.

Read and see more here.

Jason Hawryluk

Degrafa for Flex in Action: Thermometer Skin Sample

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:45:45 +0000

Juan has published another example of skinning with Degarfa on the blog. Using Degrafa, Juan skinned a vertical slider component into a thermometer type gauge component. Slick work Juan!

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Degrafa for Flex in Action: Repeaters

admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:39:29 +0000

Juan from ScaleNine has published another great post where he discusses repeaters in Degrafa and how they work. It’s definitely one of my preferred extender type objects in Degrafa. The lines of typing and time you can save with repeaters is immediately evident once you get comfortable and put them to good use.

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Degrafa for Flex in Action: Fills and Strokes

admin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:48:19 +0000

Juan has published a new post introducing the various Fill and Stroke objects that Degrafa supports, and explains how they can be used. He also discusses some other interesting things that we are working on in this area.

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Degrafa for Flex in action: Skinning

admin — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:17:05 +0000

Juan from ScaleNine has posted an example of how Degrafa can be used for skinning. Though a simple example, it goes to show that we have not left skinning out of the equation in the Degrafa framework. I personally think that the idea of programmatic skinning with out the need to write action script or extend one of the programmatic skin classes is way cool, just 100% MXML declarative mark-up.

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A great example of Degrafa for Flex in Action

admin — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:22:54 +0000

Juan Sanchez from ScaleNine just posted another great example on the Degrafa blog that showcases some of the power of Degrafa (Declarative Graphics Framework). Juan also talks briefly about how Degrafa works to help close the designer/developer gap.

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Degrafa: A declarative graphics framework for Flex.

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:46:43 +0000

This blog has been silent lately (promise I’ll get back to cool components soon). However I have not been without thoughts or work on what could/will benefit the Flex community.

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Flex 2.0 Samples and Source Restored

admin — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:50:17 +0000

Last night sometime during the wee hours here but peak hours for the western hemisphere, my hosts server crashed and crashed big. They had to rebuild the server and every sample app this blog points to on that server became corrupted.

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Flex 2.0.1 Rating Component

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:16:36 +0000

Allot of online applications today presenting anything from news, to photos, to video all have a public rating feature. So here is a component that can serve as a really good start.

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Flex 2.0.1 ComboBox with icon support.

admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:12:45 +0000

Sometimes a ComboBox with icons in the list as well as in the text display area can be useful. However the out of the box Flex ComboBox component dosn’t support this. Here is one way of doing it.

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