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Flex 2 Style Explorer released

Andrew Spaulding — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:33:33 +0000

Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Consulting have just released their Flex 2.0 Style Explorer. This follows their original style explorer application for Flex 1.5.

As before, this is a work in progress and will be updated with the release of beta 2 and then again for any subsequent releases of Flex. This is a fantastic tool for developers to build their CSS style declarations for their applications, and also a winner for creatives who can leverage the power of CSS and develop styles in a similar style to that of the Web.

Check it out here on the Adobe Consulting blog.

How to skin Flex 2.0

Andrew Spaulding — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:05:55 +0000

For those of you who don’t read the Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA) you would have missed the article by Kevin Hoyt on Programmatic Skinning with Flex 2.

The article outlines just how easy it is to programatically skin your Flex application without the need to get into the nitty gritty of timelines and symbols. The skins are drawn using the Drawing API and referenced through a ClassReference in the style declaration. So easy!

The changes in the skinning architecture since Flex 1.5 have really opened the doors to many new looks and styles of applications, a real win for the developers who are not interested in the design aspects of the Flash authoring tool.

Download Flex Builder 2.0 Beta at Adobe Labs

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Bring layout control back to CSS

Andrew Spaulding — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:24:14 +0000

Just like you would when coding a webpage with div’s and CSS-P (css positioning) you can now have that same contol when coding for Flex. Manish Jethani has written a great post demonstrating how to control Flex application layout using css. Complete source code is available too. It’s well worth a peek

Flex Style Explorer

Andrew Spaulding — Wed, 18 May 2005 01:44:34 +0000

Macromedia Consulting have released this nice little “work in progess” Flex css style application. It’s basically a tool to assist in creating visual designs for Flex applications.

It provides a demonstration of the available style controls for Flex components, real time manipulation of the styles, as well as providing the css for each style control.

Check it out!