Monthly Archives: January 2010

Cool ItemRenderers Made Easy in Flex 4

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 28, 2010
Flex 4 makes a lot of things a lot easier to build. After looking at custom components and skins in my previous post, here are a couple of samples focusing on ItemRenderers, States, and Animations. In this first example, I use the new “depth” attribute together with the new States syntax to make sure that the [...]
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Creating a Custom Component and Skins in Flex 4

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 22, 2010
The basic idea behind the Spark component model in Flex 4 is to entirely decouple the behavior of a component from its visual representation. You code the behavior of a component in one class and its visual representation in interchangeable MXML skin classes. This new architecture leads to lighter weight and easier to customize components. As [...]
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Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: January 18, 2010
I’ll be in Tampa with James Ward and Greg Wilson this week, and we thought it would be great to put together an informal event for the local Tampa bay developer community. The details below are from Greg’s original post. When: Thursday, Jan 21 6:30pm-8:30pm Location: Taverna Opa Tampa – Channelside – next to Splitsville [...]
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