Yesterday, I wanted to get a feel for how skinning was changing in the new Flex 4 framework. I thought Catalyst was going to be the best route, but after staring at a blank artboard in Illustrator for a few minutes I decided it might be good to just code some things by hand see […]
Entries from June 2009
Flex 4 (Gumbo) Skinning with States and Animation
June 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: ActionScript · Flash · Flash Builder 4 · Flex · Gumbo · Tutorial
PaperVision 3D Cubes Part 2
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
I have made some modifications to my cube experiment so I thought I’d share them. In this version I have added Z support for the random position of cubes, as well as the “Chatoic” rotations and movements. Using any of the normal rotate functions you will get a single rotation in Y, using a chaotic […]
Tags: ActionScript · Flash · Flex · PaperVision 3D
Application Background Gradients in Flash Builder 4 (Flex Gumbo)
June 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments
I was playing around with the beta release of Flex Builder 4 (now called Flash Builder 4 or Gumbo while it’s in beta) and I was astonished to see the linear background gradient options removed from CSS styles. After some research I found an article by Peter deHaan over at flexexamples.com. His article was somewhat […]
Tags: ActionScript · Flash · Flash Builder 4 · Flex · Gumbo