effects

Creating a Custom Animation Effect in Flex 4

by David Salahi on December 19, 2010

As I discussed in my previous post “O’Reilly’s Flex 4 Cookbook Continues to Disappoint” I recently was frustrated when looking there for sample code to create a Flex 4 custom effect. The Adobe docs have some information on their page “About creating a custom effect” but some of the details are missing, particularly if you [...]

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O’Reilly’s Flex 4 Cookbook Continues to Disappoint

by David Salahi on December 19, 2010

I’ve been a fan of the O’Reilly Cookbooks in the past and have found valuable info in both their ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook and Flex 3 Cookbook. So, when O’Reilly released their Flex 4 Cookbook earlier this year I purchased a PDF copy as soon as it became available. However, I’ve been disappointed by this volume [...]

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Flex 4 Vertical Sliding Menu

by David Salahi on July 28, 2010

Right-click to view source. Here’s a Flex 4 menu component that you can modify with your own menu items and plug in to any application. The menu items are Labels; clicking on one triggers an event which you can handle in the container or elsewhere in your application. This sample menu includes two submenus which [...]

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Flex 4 ActionScript 3 Lightbox for Flash Player

by David Salahi on June 27, 2010

Here’s a class that duplicates the popular JavaScript lightbox effect entirely in ActionScript 3 for Flex 4 projects. Here’s a demo of the Lightbox class in action. Right-click to view source or download the fxp at the end of this post. (Note: it takes a few seconds after loading this page for all the images [...]

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