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Hi! This blog is a place for me to post my thoughts on Flex. Hopefully I won't ramble too much... :-)A bit about me: I joined Adobe a couple of months ago. Although I am technically part of the Flex...
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Napkin skins in Flex
How easy is it to skin a Flex application? As an experiment, I tried to create something that looks like the Napkin L&F for a simple Flex app. (The idea of the Napkin L&F is to have your UI...
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Napkin skins, stage one: CSS styles and graphical skins
Quite a bit can be done using only CSS and graphical skins (click on the screenshot to see the app):If you look at the source -- you can see the source files by selecting View Source from the app's...
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Napkin skins, stage two: programmatic skins
We can build on stage one by using programmatic skins (click on the screenshot to see the app):There were no significant changes to the MXML file: the only change is the reference to the CSS...
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Napkin skins, stage three: the (current) limits of skinning
After seeing what we can do with graphical and programmatic skins, it is time to explore what you can't do with Flex skins (yet). Unfortunately, you need to subclass ComboBox and DataGrid in order to...
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Andrew has joined my team as an intern for the summer. :-)
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Fun with Code Hinting
IntroductionHi Folks! As Eylon said, I'm a summer intern at Adobe, working with Eylon and others to develop Flex applications. I'm not a blogger, usually, but there's a first time for everything....
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