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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 [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Yet Another Flex Mapping API, NOT!” – Mansour Raad and Antony Jayaprakash

Monday, May 18, 2009

This is not just a small API but a true GIS mapping application. It has been used for the Fargo flood and Minneapolis Bridge collapse. http://www.esri.com/flex to download the API Library – SWC Services: Tiles can be hosted by yourself, they host some, MS hosts some. Google is coming. Geocoding/Reverse Query/Identiy Routing w/ barriers and [...]

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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 [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “AddEventListener() – Now What()” – Josh Buhler

Monday, May 18, 2009

Event: noteworthy runtime occurence Types of events: built-in (come from Flash Player) and custom (coder defined) Custom: Something that you feel is “noteworthy” Basics: Something happens, creation, dispatch, handling (not all dispatched events are handled) Objects: type (either Event or subclass), name, phase (where in event flow this is), target (what triggered event and what [...]

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