I’ve placed my first public Flex module into my portfolio as a feedreader for this website. It’s a very simple module using no ActionScript to speak of and components are being styled directly from within their properties. It’s a good first step with Flex and something that is useful for me, so I view it as a success. The next step for my learning experience will probably be the integration of ActionScript within an app and either styling the components globally, or re-skinning them alltogether.
Coming from the Flash/ActionScript side of things, it’s been difficult getting a grasp on Flex and how everything works on that side. I’ve done a number of small experiments in the past few months but nothing useful till now. It’s beginning to come together for me though- I have the feeling that after the initial hurdle, things will explode for someone already familiar with ActionScript.
for styling you should checkout http://www.scalenine.com
Looks good. There is small bug, click on any item and then come back to main view. Try clicking on selected item again…it doesn’t work.
-abdul
I’ve seen scalenine.com but haven’t looked too deep yet. Looks really nice though. One of the things that has bothered me about Flex was how similar everything seems to look. It’s good to understand that every Flex app does not have to look exactly the same.
Thanks, Abdul. I was aware of this but just kind of put up with it. I’ve updated my MXML source with what I believe is a fix.
Nice work. I like the simplicity of the interface.
I did not see it working as in the modular application concept. I am looking to find info on creating modules and load them with moduleloader. More specifically, a projector.exe calling modules externally via the web. If you ever find one let me know.
Again nice work and it’s great to see more people working with flex.