http://www.ryancampbell.com Flex/Flash Developer Blog Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:43:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/09/10/skinning-minimalcomps-with-degrafa/ I made a few minor changes to the MinimalComps project from Keith Peters and got it playing nicely with MXML. The below application compiles to a tiny 23KB yet makes use of MXML and even data binding. I added only 2 new extra classes (Container and Application). Container simply adds the ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/08/26/using-mxml-without-flex-example-and-source/ I spent some time converting the OpenFlux 3D layouts to Flex 4 last week and have attached the example with source code. This includes CoverFlow (horizontal and vertical), Carousel, Spiral and Time Machine. I also included one which was created when I screwed up the CoverFlow layout but I thought ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/06/16/heres-5-3d-layouts-for-flex-4/ Over the last month I've been working on getting OpenFlux independant from UIComponent and many of the other large Flex classes with a goal to create a much ligher framework. OpenFlux Application (77KB) Flex Application with OpenFlux Components (205KB) I have two applications above that look exactly the same. The difference is one ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/03/11/openflux-independant-from-flex/ Ok, so after getting a working OpenFlux DataGrid component I decided the next obvious step is to try and build a TreeDataGrid component. Although there is still more work to be done, I spent a few hours last night and was able to get a Tree and TreeDataGrid component working. ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/02/02/openflux-tree-and-treedatagrid-components-view-source-enabled/ The current project I'm on in the mockups shows a DataGrid component that requires the ability to expand the row height to show more details on the selected item. Although this sounds simple to do, the Flex DataGrid component is a beast and if this isn't something you've been tasked ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/01/31/openflux-custom-expanding-datagridrow-view-source-enabled/ I previously wouldn't have even thought of developing my own DataGrid component from scratch but with OpenFlux's help it's super easy (Or at least easy enough to want to attempt it). Over the last couple days I've spent my spare time developing an extremely flexible DataGrid component and if you ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2009/01/22/openflux-datagrid-component-with-view-source/ 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 ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2008/09/17/openflux-degrafa-fluxcharts/ At the 360|Flex Day 1 Keynote, Mark Anders presented on Flex 4, Thermo and Flash Player 10 (video here). One of his demos was a custom scroll bar that was easily built with Flex 4/Thermo, but complicated with Flex 3. I've created a similar scroll bar using OpenFlux below with ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2008/09/10/customizing-the-openflux-scrollbar/ In the time since 360|Flex Atlanta, Ben and I have made a lot of progress on OpenFlux. The majority of my focus has been on what's called Plexiglass. It consists of an alternate view class, 3D layouts and cameras allowing you to create 3D components with as little as a ... http://www.ryancampbell.com/2008/08/13/plexiglass-3d-components-made-easy-at-360flex/