Ryan Campbell » Degrafa http://www.ryancampbell.com Flex/Flash Developer Blog Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:59:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Skinning MinimalComps with Degrafa http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/09/10/skinning-minimalcomps-with-degrafa/ http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/09/10/skinning-minimalcomps-with-degrafa/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:43:28 +0000 Ryan Campbell http://www.ryancampbell.com/?p=43 Just a quick post to show how you can utilize Degrafa and MXML to skin the MinimalComps components. Currently this adds just over 50kb to your SWF but it's on on going effort to lower this and minimize the dependencies on Flex classes.

My skin extends from GeometryGroup which instead of adding another DisplayObject to the display list it simply draws directly on the component.

I really like the idea of using AS3 for your component behavior/logic and seperating your views/skins using MXML. This is something Flex 4 is trying to achieve with FXG and it would be cool to see other frameworks do the same with Degrafa.

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]]> http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/09/10/skinning-minimalcomps-with-degrafa/feed/ 5 OpenFlux + Degrafa = FluxCharts http://www.ryancampbell.com/2008/09/17/openflux-degrafa-fluxcharts/ http://www.ryancampbell.com/2008/09/17/openflux-degrafa-fluxcharts/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:59:10 +0000 Ryan Campbell http://www.bobjim.com/2008/09/17/openflux-degrafa-fluxcharts/ Last night I started playing around with the new GeometryRepeater/PropertyModifier classes in Degrafa and decided it would be fun to create an OpenFlux chart component. The code consists of a Chart model class (currently just has a data Array property) and 3 mxml views. You can change the view at runtime to a pie, line or column chart.

The app is below with view source enabled. So far the component is really simple and doesn't even have a controller. I plan on developing it further but wanted to show it off at the early stage so you can see how simple it is to get started creating a custom OpenFlux component.

I will be posting updates as I add more functionality. Let me know any ideas you have for what you would like to see.


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