didier burton

Skinning a Flex component with video

didier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:48:36 +0000

Flex skinning techniques range from embedding graphic assets to programmatic skins (see Adobe Flex 3 Help.) Most techniques visually result in static states, with "view stack" type transitions between them. Enhancing the dynamics of Flex skins can be achieved in two non-mutually exclusive ways:

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Environment for WordPress theme development

didier — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:36:52 +0000

I recently spent some time developing a WordPress theme for this blog. On the one hand, I needed a local environment for development and testing, in order to avoid frequent remote server updates. On the other hand, as understanding and wading through all the WordPress php template files can be overwhelming—especially the first time—, navigating and accessing the framework code was an issue, as well.
Luckily, there are tools out there that, once together, make the development less tedious and much more productive.

Here are the pieces I pulled together as my "WordPress theme development" environment:

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Flex Component: PanScrollingCanvas

didier — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:26:15 +0000

The PanScrollingCanvas is a Flex container that scrolls its children on mouse move. Fully skinnable buttons appear when hovering over the container. The behavior of those buttons can be customized on the client side, by listening to events that this container will fire on button rollover, rollout, and click.

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Localizing a Flex library with multiple languages in one .swc file

didier — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:22:19 +0000

The support for multiple languages in a Flex application is well integrated in Flex 3. The Adobe documentation gives an excellent overview of the general process and the technical details associated with internationalizing your application. The documentation, however, does not explicitly cover the case where some localized parts of your application reside in one or more Flex libraries (.swc files.) We are addressing that case here below.

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