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Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future

Tink — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:50:09 +0000

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html

Apache Flex Logo

Tink — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:27:01 +0000

Over January Apache Flex ran a competition to design a logo for the new podling and here is the winning result.

Adrian Knopik & Tomasz Maciąg of Fuse Collective have done an amazing job. Thanks to everyone who entered and voted.

Congratulations to Apache Flex!.

London Flash Platform User Group January 2012

Tink — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:42:17 +0000

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

Tink — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:57:28 +0000

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)

RatingsBar

Tink — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:38:10 +0000

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

Tink — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:48:37 +0000

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).

IsoscelesTriangle Primitive

Tink — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:45:34 +0000

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

Tink — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:20:52 +0000

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

Tink — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:36:52 +0000

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

Tink — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:48:29 +0000

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)