Simeon Says » simeon says http://blog.simb.net Because I said so... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Packaging Flex 4 Components http://blog.simb.net/2009/08/24/packaging-flex-4-components/ http://blog.simb.net/2009/08/24/packaging-flex-4-components/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:35:47 +0000 Simeon http://blog.simb.net/?p=2132 In the third episode of the Simeon Says Screencast I am joined by Garth Braithwaite. Garth and I did some discussion a while back about how to best get skins applied to Flex 4 components that we want to share with folks. The result of that was some actionscript that set a default skin and allowed you to over ride it. But I recently found a better way. Using the defaults.css file in your swc allows you to assign the default styles just like is done in the Flex SDK. So tune in and watch to see how you can add default skins to your Flex components as well as set up default CSS for your components in general.

Simeon Says: Packaging Flex 4 Components

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Due to a bug in the released version of Flash Builder Beta this task is not as straight forward as it should be. Please reference the following links for more information about the problem.

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19867
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2093853#2093853

Simeon Says Episode 1

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]]> http://blog.simb.net/2009/08/12/using-flash-builder-beta-with-nightly-flex-4-sdks/feed/ 2 Getting Started with Flex 4 (Gumbo) http://blog.simb.net/2008/10/06/getting-started-with-flex-4-gumbo/ http://blog.simb.net/2008/10/06/getting-started-with-flex-4-gumbo/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:04:25 +0000 Simeon http://blog.simb.net/?p=1733 In order to start playing with the code in gumbo, you need to get the source for the framework from the Adobe Open Source Website. From there you can add it as an available Flex SDK in Flex Builder and start to play with the code.

Mike Chambers has a good blog post on how to set this up, but I have also prepared a screencast to show you how to set this up.

Full Size Video Here

The final code for this demo looks like this.

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< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" xmlns:mx="library:adobe/flex/halo" >
	<mx :Button label="Halo Button" />
	<button label="Gumbo Button" />
</application>

Note. The Application and Button tags above should be upper case, but every time I save wordpress lowercases them. Show Just know that < Application /> and < Button /> are references to classes.

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