Posts Tagged ‘flex’
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Skinning Flex with Degrafa and FXG
For my session at Flash Camp Birmingham I wanted to introduce people to declarative skinning within Flex. I was skinning Flex applications back in Flex 2 and to get the right visual appeal it was quite a tricky thing to get right. There was a reliance on heavy external assets brought into Flex and scaled using Scale9 techniques. There were many times I wanted to have better control of the UI I was creating through not only a more advanced CSS capability but without having to resort to creating skins from scratch directly with the Flash drawing API.
Posted in: journal | Tagged with: degrafa, flashcamp, flex, fxg, presentation
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Flex resources
Adobe Flex is a great platform to work with for creating rich engaging applications of all sizes for the web and now the desktop with AIR. Now we are at Flex version 3 and the next version Flex 4, which is the SDK, and the editor now called Flash Builder are just around the corner.
There are a number of resources, guides and articles that I use regularly when building Flex or AIR applications. This is a growing resource so bookmark the page and feel free to suggest anything that I may have missed.
Here we go then:
Posted in: journal | Tagged with: actionscript, air, flex
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Prudential Retirement Flex application wins Revolution Award
As I mentioned in a previous post the Adobe Flex project for Prudential that I worked on has one a prestigious Revolution Award in the financial category.
The retirement planner was the first RIA application for Prudential, however the …
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Flex app shortlisted for top award
I have just been informed that an Adobe Flex application that I worked on last year has been shortlisted for a Revolution Award in the financial services category.
The application is a retirement planning tool for Prudential in …
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