London Flash Platform User Group January 2012

January 11th, 2012

LFPUG rolls on into 2012.

For our first meeting of the year we welcome Stuart Mitchell with ‘Agile from the Trenches’ and following him will be Steve Buckley with a session on ‘Profiling’.

London Flash Platform User Group 26th January 2012 (26/01/2012)

Hosted by iris & sponsored by FITC.

London Flash Platform User Group December 2011

December 13th, 2011

Thanks to both Shaun Pearce and Liam Flynn for their presentations last month. As usual you can find the videos, presentations etc can be found in the presentations section.

This month, no presentations, we’ll be meeting for our LFPUG xmas piss-up. Come and join us for some xmas drinks and smokes in the ditch.

We’ve had some great sessions this year, and LFPUG will continue into the new year.

London Flash Platform User Group 15th December 2011 (15/12/2011)

Sponsored by Apress.

RatingsBar

November 11th, 2011

On a recent project I was working on, another team required a ratings bar so I thought I put something together. It works very much like a Flex 4 List, but all item renderers at an index below the selectedIndex are selected. It also enables you to drag on the bar once you have click on it to change the rating given (mainly implemented for touch devices).

As with most (vote & vote please) spark components you can change the layout, renderer, skin etc.

For ease of use there is also a numRatings property that internally creates an ArrayList with the correct length to be used as a dataProvider for the component, although if required (i.e. you want custom labels etc to be shown) you can set you own dataProvider.


(right click for source).

The source can be downloaded only from our GitHub repository (only added to the Flex 4.5 lib at the moment). I’ll get it into the 4 lib and up on our Google Code repository soon.

  • ws.tink.spark.controls.RatingsBar (4.5)
  • ws.tink.spark.itemRenderers.RatingsBarItemRenderer (4.5)
  • ws.tink.spark.skins,controls.RatingsBarSkin (4.5)
  • London Flash Platform User Group November 2011

    November 10th, 2011

    Massive thanks to both Tom Underhill and Shaun Smith for their sessions last month. The videos and presentations from both sessions can be found in the presentations section.

    First up at our last meeting of 2011 is Shaun Pearce with ‘Cloud Computing – An Introduction to Amazon Web Services‘ and following him we welcome back Liam Flynn with a session on ‘Animating HTML5‘.

    London Flash Platform User Group 24th November 2011 (24/11/2011).

    Sponsored by Apress & hosted by Tag.

    IsoscelesTriangle Primitive

    November 8th, 2011

    Here’s a Flex 4+ IsoscelesTriangle primitive. If you require an equilateral triangle you can just set width or height (not both) and the primitive will calculate the other size.


    (right click for source).

    The source can be downloaded only from our GitHub repository (only added to the Flex 4.5 lib at the moment). I’ll get it into the 4 lib and up on our Google Code repository soon.

  • ws.tink.graphics.utils.IsoscelesTriangleUtil
  • ws.tink.spark.primitives.IsoscelesTriangle (4.5)
  • Annulus Primitive

    November 7th, 2011

    Here’s a Flex 4+ Annulus primitive. You can specify the width and height (width, height), the hole width and hole height (holeWidth, holeHeight) and the amount the position of the hole should be offset from the center (holeOffsetX, holeOffsetY).


    (right click for source).

    The source can be downloaded only from our GitHub repository (only added to the Flex 4.5 lib at the moment). I’ll get it into the 4 lib and up on our Google Code repository soon.

  • ws.tink.spark.primitives.Annulus (4.5)
  • EllipticalPolygon Primitive

    November 4th, 2011

    Here’s a Flex 4+ EllipticalPolygon primitive. You can specify the width and height of the ellipse that the polygon will be drawn around (width, height) and number of sides (numSides).


    (right click for source).

    The source can be downloaded only from our GitHub repository (only added to the Flex 4.5 lib at the moment). I’ll get it into the 4 lib and up on our Google Code repository soon.

  • ws.tink.graphics.utils.EllipticalPolygonUtil
  • ws.tink.spark.primitives.EllipticalPolygon (4.5)
  • Star Primitive

    November 3rd, 2011

    Here’s a Flex 4 Star primitive that is drawn based on outer and inner ellipses. You can specify the width and height of the outer ellipse (width, height), the width and height of the inner ellipse (innerWidth, innerHeight) and the number of points (numPoints).


    (right click for source).

    The source can be downloaded only from our GitHub repository (only added to the Flex 4.5 lib at the moment). I’ll get it into the 4 lib and up on our Google Code repository soon.

  • ws.tink.graphics.utils.StarUtil
  • ws.tink.spark.primitives.Star (4.5)
  • London Flash Platform User Group October 2011

    October 25th, 2011

    Huge thanks to Rob McMichael for his Flex Mobile session last month. The videos and presentations from both sessions can be found in the presentations section.

    First up this month Tom Underhill with ‘Wired Up’ and following him will be Shaun Smith with a session on ‘Git – Fast Version Control’.

    London Flash Platform User Group 27th October 2011 (27/10/2011).

    Sponsored by Apress & hosted by M&C Saatchi.

    London Flash Platform User Group September 2011

    September 26th, 2011

    Huge thanks to last months presenters Conrad Winchester and Steven Goodwin for their fantastic session at the last meeting. Both videos and presentations can be found in the presentations section.

    First up this month Rob McMichael with the hot topic of ‘Flex for Mobile’ and following him will be myself with a session on ‘Flex Navigators’.

    London Flash Platform User Group 29th September 2011 (29/09/2011).

    Sponsored by O’Reilly & hosted by Mind Candy.