ActionScript 3.0 :: Making Own Application Kit / Need Opinion About Skinning Components
May 20, 2011
I need your opinion on best way of skinning components do you prefer raster or prosperity based styling like CSS? or maybe you like the Flash way of styling with IDE? Raster vs. Vector which many have mentioned, there is much of a complexity when applying custom skins to components.I know that the flash at its origin where designed to draw vector graphics, by i'm personaly not a huge fan of vector.Many bigger widget/application kits are based on using multiple bitmaps to draw their custom style onto regular components.Maybe this is the way to go? when building a custom framework i in a dead zone where i don't know which way to go, if should go with property styling or bitmap skinning. Bitmaps sounds more fun and more complex styles can be made with bitmaps including noise..Generally i want your opinion for implement the structure that to most developers/designer are comfortable with
For the past half year i have been working on my pride.Im under develop of a new cutting edge application platform. This enterprise application and the platform is build onto my custom developed as3 framework that handles much of what a modern (minimal) operation system does. Inspired by Gskinners (old) Flash OS (cant not post the link as signed to as.org today).
This might seem a silly question but I am sitting here for a few hours wondering how I could change the text color for my components.
For example I have a DropDown Component and I change its skin (all the states) and put in a dark skin (I dragged the component on the stage and edited it). The text on the component, however is black and cannot be read. How could I change the component's text to white.
Let's say you have a large number (N) of spark buttons in your app. Let's also say that your buttons all have very similar skins (size, various effects, etc) - the only difference being the specific png that they use as their BitmapImage. Do you end up with N skin files, all differing by 1 line? Or is there a smarter way to do this while not adding a lot of code when you create the buttons in MXML (in fact, ideally, none).
I'm just starting out with Flex, and I want to customize a component (a HSlider) to have a gradient colored background that I can dynamically change Same functionality as a normal HSlider, except for the background.How should I approach this?
I'm using mx:WindowedApplication, I'm wondering how I can skin the title bar and close/minimize button for the window. I can see application like Pandora One is using it and setting transparency. Any pointer to a doc?
I am not able to use fillColor and corner radius in spark. I want to use the mx components(halo) properties both in halo and spark application. Can any one of you help me in using fillColor and Corner radius in both flex 3.0 and Flash 4.0
I am a novice and am educating myself about AS.Reading through Datatypes and conversion, I came across different methods to converting data into "string".
1) by using the toString() method
2) by using the String() function
3) converting to a string using empty string concatenation :- x + "";
My questions are :
a) which of the three is the preferable method?
b)Why?
c) Are there any specific instances when one is preferred over the other?
Recently I've found a nice on-line diagramming tool - LovelyCharts. I like the way UI is designed - you can view screenshot here. I wonder how to make an image that span across multiple components, like the LovelyCharts logo in the upper right corner of the screenshot.
How can Application's ControlBar be moved to its bottom in Flex 4.5 ?
The Adobe doc says only:
By default, the ApplicationSkin class defines the control bar area to appear at the top of the content area of the Application container with a grey background. Create a custom skin to change the default appearance of the control bar.
So I look at spark.skins.spark.ApplicationSkin and there is a controlBarGroup (does it hold the ControlBar contents?), but I don't know how to move it from top to the bottom.
I'm implementing a Flex application with several modules.I'm reusing the same component in all these modules.I was wondering if I'm correctly importing it in each mxml module definition: xmlns:hillelcoren="com.hillelcoren.components.*"Should I import it only once, in the main application mxml instead?
I want to make a digital framing application like at this website:URL...Im not sure if i would be able to make this with an adobe program or if its something i would have to download off the internet.
I'm wanting to build a project, it's an online video creation software in Flash so people could upload some music, choose videos from a library, edit the whole thing and export and download a movie in the end. I've seen websites like www.Animoto.com close to what I want to do but I can't find how it's made and I'd like to make it a little more advanced when it come to editing.
Here is the design I'm thinking about for the flash video editor. [URL] Is possible to build such a video editor in Flash?
I need to implement some sort of data locking in a Flex application I'm developing. A user clicks a specific button to "check out" the data set, and other users must wait until they are finished before they can make edits. After a period of inactivity, the application will release the lock to someone else.What I'm after is an easy way to determine if the user is still interacting with the application so they don't have to manually keep clicking "yes I want to continue editing". For example, I could handle all mouse clicks for the entire application and add 5 minutes to the timeout every time they click something. Are there any better options for doing something like this? Is there something built in to check for last interaction time?
I am looking to make a video editing software in flash. how to get media into a timeline? getting the media into a timeline and being able to move around the time of the video and have it display the media on a box
What is the right way for integrating a Flash component into a Flex application? I heard that there are different ways of integration between Flash and Flex: using SWF, using SWC (something else?). What are theirs pros and cons? What are the points of communication between them Flash and Flex? `I'm using Flash Builder 4 for developing Flex. And Flash Professional CS 5 for developing Flash.
I am created a dynamically adding a VBox, that contains two images. Into a Custom Component that is derived from UIComponent. The problem is the Vbox that contains the two image is only a really tiny size. I would like the VBox stretch to the size of the two images. This is how I am creating the Vbox....
Is it bad practice/design to nest components inside components using Flex 4? Should I simply be creating components and inserting them into my main application as below, or doesn't it matter?
how i can use actionscript component code in mmxl components,as in actionscript components we use classes ,but in mmxl component we can not use classes function, so how i can use actionscript component code in mmxl component
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but i cant use this code in mmxl components how i can use public class DialogTitle extends HBox implements IBindingClient in mmxl component code,what are the way to use it,sorry i am newbie if it is silly question
I am wanting to use the ComboBox Component in a Mobile App. Thing is the scrollbar is way to small.Is there any way to change the width of the scrollbar on the ComboBox either in code or by skinning it? I tried just adding some width to the scrollbar component by clicking into the component and changing the width,but it did not work correctly.
I have the Spark scroll bar in my application skinned the way I want where I use s|VScrollBar and then set skinClass: ClassReference(my skin class) in my CSS file. For my Halo scroll bar I have the skins set for each element of the scroll bar (arrows, thumb, track, etc.) but I want to have one central class like with the Spark scroll bar.
I am trying to programmatically skin a PopUpButton control in Flex Builder, but having no luck. As far as I know this requires writing a custom skin class or creating a modified version the control class itself (since the control is MX and not Spark). Again, just to clarify, I want to programmatically modify the appearance not simply set styling properties or display an image. I've been able to do this programmatically with other MX controls (e.g. tabs in a tab navigator), but not with the PopUpButton.I think part of the problem may be that the control is actually composed of two separate buttons, so you cannot draw just one rectangular area over the whole control.
So, I'm pretty sure this is impossible, but is there any way to "re-skin" the box that pops up asking you if flash should be allowed access to your mic and webcam? I'd really love to make that box fit with the rest of the design of whatever I'm building.
Also, if I have several swfs that use the mic/webcam inside one larger shell swf, will the dialog box appear once for each of the sub-swfs, or just once for the large one, and those settings will be applied to all the sub-swfs?
I am going to use a HSlider to set a range of values. I would like the left thumb to look like ( and the right thumb to lok like ) so they appear to encompass the range like (range) instead of |range|. I only know how to set the skin for SliderThumb which will set the skin for both. Does anyone know of a way to set a different skin for each thumb?
I am having some issues when trying to skin the scrollbar on a horizontalList with Degrafa. The scrollbar doesn't show up at all. I checked to see if the scrollbar is supposed to show up without the skinning, and it does.Here is some code:This is where I define the HorizontalList where I want a skinned scrollbar.[code]I am populating the HorizontalList with more items than are viewable, and like I said before the scrollbar shows up when I remove the skinning.
I have created a 3 skins with degrafa. One for the track, one for thumb and one for the datatip. I had no problem attaching the skins for the track and thumb of the hslider component. But how can i skin the datatip?
