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#360Flex Notes – “Custom ItemRenders” – Ryan Frishberg and Joan Lafferty

Monday, May 18, 2009

Other Resources:
Alex’s Blog – http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
Peter Ent’s Blog – http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent
Spark Containers – http://blogs.adobe.com/flexdoc/pdf/sparkContainersAndRenderers.pdf
What is an itemRenderer?
a list renders data usually in a label
property on list classes typed to take an IFactory
Types of ItemRenderers
2 main types: custom and drop-in item rendereres
3 ways to create them:
Custom MXML Class
Separate Actionscript 3 file
Inline with mx:Component tag
Custom IR
Most basic is just [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Degrafa: Declarative Graphics Framework” – Juan Sanchez

Monday, May 18, 2009

About Degrafa:
Open source framework that works with Flex 2/3 and eventually 4. Allows for really easy graphics to be draw via markup.
Licensed under MIT and powered by the Flex community
Showed gear (based on gearAutoShape) with gradient blend and glow filter that is all done via mxml code.
Degrafa is not just limited to simple shapes/fills but [...]

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