Here is another Flash Catalyst experiment I have been doing through last week. The aim was to build a Flex 4 theme that looks like the mac aqua theme exclusively using Adobe Flash Catalyst drawing tools *only* (yeah, no illustrator / photoshop) The theme isn’t an exact replica of the mac look, it is an extrapolation of sorts. This is work in progress (hence the name Somethinglikemac!), may be at the end of it all, I would be able to make a theme that exactly looks like the aqua theme 
You can view the demo in a separate window by clicking here
You can download the FXP here. If you want to grab the skinPart Classes alone, download it here. If you want to edit this theme in Flash Catalyst, download the catalyst source fxp.
If you thought that was interesting, do check out the flex theme black glass by Anirudh
You checkbox label is Times new Roman from where I”m looking at it.
For the rest : Awesome!
nizzle
25 Nov 09 at 6:46 pm
Hey Nizzle: Thanks a lot for pointing out – It is fixed now
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
25 Nov 09 at 7:08 pm
Love your work and I wanted to try out your skin on one of my internal research projects. However, the assets (ex. the magnify icon for the search input field) are missing.
Is it possible to upload the skin files with the assets?
Thank you,
Alain
Alain
6 Dec 09 at 3:09 pm
How to import this into my existing FLEX3 project?
chris
12 Dec 09 at 10:03 pm
@Alain: I will post the missing assets as soon as I can
@Chris: This works only with Flex 4 projects.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
14 Dec 09 at 1:21 pm
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16 Dec 09 at 5:15 pm
With FC CS5 I get an Error on opening, that the project file is invalid…
Is it not compatible with CS5?
Thanks
Joerg
Joerg
7 Jan 10 at 4:16 pm
@Joerg: Will you be able to send me your project file? I could take a look. thanks! [hsivaramakrishnan [at] gmail [dot] com]
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
7 Jan 10 at 6:33 pm
Error on opening, that the project file is invalid….
css?
can you send me your project? please i liked so much! tanks
Wagner
9 Jan 10 at 1:47 am
@Wagner: I am able to open the .FXP, let me send you an email with the FXP again.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
10 Jan 10 at 11:28 am
I get the invalid file error. Can you please send me the project? Many thanks
alita
18 Jan 10 at 3:02 am
Hi very very very nice skin
Franics Varga
19 Jan 10 at 10:03 pm
I also get the invalid file error. Please send.
Jeff
20 Jan 10 at 4:28 am
@jeff – I will post the catalyst FXP source. This is due to the limitation that once an FXP is opened in Flash Builder, it currently cannot be round-tripped to catalyst in beta2. Thanks for writing in.
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
20 Jan 10 at 9:57 am
@Jeff: I have added the catalyst fxp source to this post. let me know if that works for you. Thanks!
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
20 Jan 10 at 11:47 am
I’m trying to import the FXP (http://www.flexgeek.in/experiments/Somethinglikemac/Somethinglikemac.fxp) with Flash Builder 4 beta 2 but it says it’s not a valid archive file.
Sebastien Arbogast
4 Feb 10 at 6:18 pm
Great job Harish.
I would like to share with you my iTunes style RoundButtonSkin for Flash Builder 4. http://mariusht.com/blog/2009/12/15/roundbuttonskin/ and demo with source code http://mariusht.com/files/blog/round_button_skin/bin-release/
Hope you like it
Mariush T.
18 Feb 10 at 10:37 pm
Getting an error ” The specified file is not a valid archive file.” too when trying to import FXP file!
Bro
23 Mar 10 at 8:13 pm
@bro:
Are you importing the FXP into catalyst or Flash builder?
Harish Sivaramakrishnan
23 Mar 10 at 11:19 pm
Flash Builder 4 Release
Bro
24 Mar 10 at 2:51 pm
I think file is corrupted. Could you reupload it?
I tried to rename it to Somethinglikemac.fxp.zip and open using archivator. I receive an error “Unexpected end of archive”.
Tried same trick with Plastic.fxp.zip, no errors.
Bro
24 Mar 10 at 3:23 pm
The fIle is definetly corrupted. Please, reupload it.
Olim
20 Apr 10 at 11:52 am
Yes the FXP file is corrupted, please upload gain.
Angel
26 Apr 10 at 7:55 am