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Feb 6 / Andrew Spaulding

How to skin Flex 2.0

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For those of you who don’t read the Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA) you would have missed the article by Kevin Hoyt on Programmatic Skinning with Flex 2.

The article outlines just how easy it is to programatically skin your Flex application without the need to get into the nitty gritty of timelines and symbols. The skins are drawn using the Drawing API and referenced through a ClassReference in the style declaration. So easy!

The changes in the skinning architecture since Flex 1.5 have really opened the doors to many new looks and styles of applications, a real win for the developers who are not interested in the design aspects of the Flash authoring tool.

Download Flex Builder 2.0 Beta at Adobe Labs

edit: How could I forget! You could always be checking Fullasagoog, the all powerful news aggregator owned by Geoff Bowers of Daemon in Sydney, Australia. It’s “Chock Full of Rich Internet Application Goodness”!!

And while you’re at it be sure to buy your ticket for WebDU, the premier Antipodean Web Technology Conference. Be there! coz unfortunately I won’t be able to make it … :-[

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  • http://www.mossyblog.com Scott Barnes

    Skinning is so much easier in FLEX 2 then it was in earlier versions, that being said the power to dynamically load PNG and so forth via web at runtime… G O L D.

    Thanks for keeping an eye out for that post, as i missed it.

  • http://www.mossyblog.com Scott Barnes

    Skinning is so much easier in FLEX 2 then it was in earlier versions, that being said the power to dynamically load PNG and so forth via web at runtime… G O L D.

    Thanks for keeping an eye out for that post, as i missed it.

  • http://www.fullasagoog.com/ Geoff Bowers

    Bah.. those of us reading the home grown Fullasagoog didn’t miss the article ;)

  • http://www.fullasagoog.com/ Geoff Bowers

    Bah.. those of us reading the home grown Fullasagoog didn’t miss the article ;)

  • http://www.flexdaddy.com Andrew Spaulding

    Of course – How could I forget Fullasagoog! I’ve edited the post to make up for my forgetfulness … and hinted that everyone should attend WebDU ;-)

    I really wish I could make it to the conference. It better be on again next year! Count me in!

  • http://www.flexdaddy.com Andrew Spaulding

    Of course – How could I forget Fullasagoog! I’ve edited the post to make up for my forgetfulness … and hinted that everyone should attend WebDU ;-)

    I really wish I could make it to the conference. It better be on again next year! Count me in!