I will be doing a session focusing on skinning Flex and AIR applications using Degrafa/CSS and I might try to touch on the new Flex 4 skinning stuff as well, if I can get some time to get my hands on it.
Its gonna be a great camp for both newbies and advanced flex/air developers. If your in the area make sure to check out the full schedule and register here - http://www.theflexgroup.org/camp/
Well to my surprise it looks like I got 3rd place for the Stockholm Multimedia User Group AIR Browser War with my entry the AIR iPhone.
Make sure you check out the other entries and you can download all the winners.
Well after trying to submitted the AIR iPhone to the Adobe AIR Market Place it didn’t agree with the Adobe Market Place terms so I renamed the app to the Desktop iPhone. Now I just gotta wait and see if Apple sends me a letter!
The app is still getting some buzz after been up for nearly a year. A recently new blog post mentions it as well as to referring to Ribbit as the phone company of the future.
I also created a new Desktop iPhone video that walks through the general functionality of the app with some voice over by yours truly.
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Just finishing the final pieces for AIRFare, an Adobe AIR application that allows you to search for Flights and Hotels. I have some screen shots and videos of it in action below. Yeah that’s my voice in the video, make fun if you want.
It use’s the AS3 Kayak api built by Andrew Powell of UM, Ribbit for the hotel calling and Mapquest for the mapping. And of course a whole lotta Degrafa Some of the features are
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I just recently had the chance to really get my hands on Degrafa for a project and have seen some pretty good results. I wanted to create a small sample for some people that have yet to play with it and show some neat things like the SVG data for more complex shapes. I wanted to also show some masking in flex using mxml for some neat effects that involve some unique shapes.
The sample shows a button that is skinned with Degrafa that on rollover shows a toolTip panel. The process to create some unique shapes in Degrafa is a multi step process. You will need to take your shape into Illustrator and create a SVG file from the path, simply save the file as SVG. The Degrafa site has a nice video showing how you can do this. Using SVG Data in Degrafa
In the example you can see the top containers are transparent and can see through to the background, which is a Degrafa skin as well. So when you rollover the edit button the toolTip panel needs to be masked. So the mask is the negative of the button skin, making the toolTip panel roll down seamless.
Source - maskShape.zip
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