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Source and example files from the presentation are now available through the following links:
1) What you get for free with UIComponent
2) [view] Component lifecycle
3) [view step one | step two] Invalidation
I have a text version of the presentation in the works. Anyways, I hope this is helpful to you as you create your own custom Flex components!
Updated: I’m going ahead and making the rough original source available since I have less time to work on this than expected. Please let me know if this helps you on any project or at least gets you started 
One of the more popular posts on this blog is “Warping Text in Flex“. People are frequently asking for the source code and I am frequently not giving it to them (unless they say please) because it’s really really dreadful. Truly. So I have brought the project back to life as something I’m not embarrassed of.
An open sourced as-is etc version of this component will be posted shortly (preview below). The component will use a three point Bézier curve for the text path. Currently, this version uses the geometry classes from http://www.algorithmist.net/ but the released version may or may not.
Continue reading for a simple preview …
Continue reading ‘Text on a curved path in Flex - Resurrected’
To learn more about the mysimplemp3 project, click the <my:SimpleMP3 /> tab at the top of this website. The project is hosted here on Google Code where you can download the latest swc or check out the source.
Currently the only demo is my proof of concept found here. I’m looking forward to seeing the components and projects you end create with mysimplemp3. Please keep me posted - and let me know about feature requests and potential bugs! Thanks.
What's this? It looks easy!
OK. I really don't like building MP3 player components in AS3 for Flex. It's doable, sure, but tedious. In fact, I don't like it enough that I've done something about it. Now it can be fun to make an MP3 player in Flex! (not available yet, but there's a demo below).
Now, just treat it like you'd expect!
Yes, there's more: scrubbing, streaming, buffering, panning left to right, auto load, auto play, auto rewind, repeat and most importantly ... states! Read more and play with a quick demo after the jump.
Continue reading 'Almost introducing <my:SimpleMP3 />'
"Adobe's Cairngorm MVC framework is used by Flex develpers to deliver scalable and maintainable rich internet applications. Universal Mind has created extensions to that framework to address implementation issues that can impede developers."
Read more at:
http://code.google.com/p/flexcairngorm/
I'm excited to see this! I haven't had time to try out the new extensions, but I'm looking forward to it. Thanks to all the good people at UM.
Update: New updated example in "Text on a curved path in Flex - Resurrected" - please see instead of this entry.
There was some discussion in the 615Flex Google group earlier about how to warp text in a Flex application. (If you have any valuable input or resources please leave them in the comments). I thought it would be fun to mess around with the idea, so I put together this really weak example of a text warp component.
Read on to see a little example ...
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This is the third post in a series on Cairngorm fundamentals. We will be binding data from the ModelLocator (created in the previous video) to a new View component. There are countless ways to achieve similar results, so do some research and come up with a method that meets your requirements. I establish some goals to strive for when creating views but the focus of this series is on Cairngorm. Feel free to post links to additional resources on the subject. Continue reading for the video and example with source ...
Continue reading 'Create a View and bind to application data'
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This is the second post in a series on Cairngorm fundamentals. We will be covering the concept of the ModelLocator, the Model in MVC. In short, the ModelLocator is a Singleton which implements a marker interface (no method definitions) from the Cairngorm framework called com.adobe.cairngorm.model.IModelLocator. The ModelLocator class defines properties that hold all application data. From now on we'll just call this class the Model.
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This is the first post in a new series on Cairngorm fundamentals. I begin the series with three steps towards a Model View Controller implementation using familiar concepts and no framework. Future posts will build on these concepts using the Cairngorm framework until we have built a working application.
I've been searching for a way to write view code in my Flex & AIR projects that is completely reusable, scalable and simple yet powerful. I've read about and used the questionably named 'code-behind' techniques that Ted and Adobe promote. I've tried the 'script src' technique that Tink is passionate about. I've used 'view helpers' and I've even tried the rarely discussed 'code-in-front' technique that Marc has written about. However, I've recently been creating my views with a technique I call the 'simple' method which is in the same school of thought as Marc's idea. Here's a table that describes the five methods mentioned above for creating views in Flex:
Continue to try out each technique in a Flex application with source and find out why I especially like the all MXML 'simple' method ...
Continue reading 'Flex View Component Techniques in MXML & AS'
