Posting another Flex 4 theme I have been working on. The look of the theme is heavily inspired by the scheme of picnik.com – an application I use in daily basis to touch up my pictures. Picnik is also one of my favorite flex apps in the web. Do take a look at the application.
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Had a fantastic trip to my Alma mater – BITS, Pilani last week for the first ever Adobe Flex Bootcamp in North India. It felt great to be back in the campus, spent a good deal of time going around all the places I used to frequent as a student (including the classrooms ) [...]
I was just playing around with the Spark List component of Flex4 framework today. Wanted to build a simple swatch panel using the component. It was *much easier* than what I thought. With about 30 minutes of coding, I could get a basic, yet functional color swatch panel. Yes, doing this with the Spark List [...]
I will be speaking at PHPCamp Pune on Building Rich User Experiences for your Flex based PHP apps. PHPCamp this year is oversold at 2000+ registrations. The event also brings together the best minds in the tech industry in a classic unconference set up. I am very excited about my talk. If you are in [...]
January 6, 2010 - 2:37 pm
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Video by Adrian Ludwig previewing Flash Player 10.1 on newly announced Google Nexus One Phone.
Google is part of Adobe’s Open Screen Project. Open Screen Project is an industry-wide initiative, led by Adobe with the participation of other industry leaders, to enable the delivery of rich multiscreen experiences built on a consistent runtime environment for open [...]
December 16, 2009 - 5:09 pm
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2009 has been a fantastic year! The last 1.5 years I spent in the Platform Evangelism team at Adobe India has been fantastic – The stuff I get to do as an evangelist is what dream jobs are made of. I am extremely excited looking at 2010, where there are a lot of great [...]
December 15, 2009 - 12:12 pm
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I stumbled upon this *amazing* Flash application while browsing through the website of my university (Birla Institute of Technology & Science or Simply, BITS). The BITS | 360 app allows the users to get a 360 degree panorama of various BITS campuses (Goa, Dubai, Pilani and Hyderabad). The application has an extremely clean and intuitive [...]
Adobe devsummit completely rocked! The event was a sell out (it was oversold, actually – we got a lot of people register on the spot for the event). The event saw 1300+ attendees join the party in hyderabad and chennai. (That is just 2 cities in south India) Earlier, Adobe devsummit bangalore edition saw 1200+ [...]
November 25, 2009 - 6:06 pm
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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 [...]
May 20, 2009 - 12:05 pm
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Just stumbled upon this site called indabamusic.com. Quite a nice idea to bring session musicians together to build and mix sessions on the web. The sound mixer is built on flash. Quite a neat app. Try it out here!
January 16, 2010 - 12:31 am
Very very nice!
January 16, 2010 - 12:33 am
@Corey: Thanks a lot!
January 16, 2010 - 2:20 pm
Looks good, but the font doesn’t seem to be embedded correctly on the bottom menu (renders times new roman for me when I view the demo)
January 16, 2010 - 5:27 pm
@Aran: Thanks for bringing this to notice, will get it fixed
January 18, 2010 - 10:37 am
Good one Siva..
Keep create and post..
January 18, 2010 - 10:44 am
some suggestions.
- the hover colors can be made uniform (currently there we have light-blue, dark blue, orange and gray).
- the checkbox and the radio button look similar. i would expect a checkbox to havea tick mark or a cross mark but not a dot.
- the arrows on the scrollbar don’t seem to provide much value.
- the font is not embedded for the header tabs.
January 18, 2010 - 12:01 pm
@Nathan:Thanks a lot
@Satish: Thanks for the suggestions.
Hover colors are kept that way, which I thought was aesthetic.
The arrows in scrollbar is another design element I have, its not about value – again, it is the aesthetics and not value proposition
Will fix the font embed issue.
Check box with tick is the most common implementation, I am much more fond of a dotted checkbox. But, Point taken.
January 19, 2010 - 2:30 am
looks good. the only thing i noticed is the top left and lower left corner’s stroke seems to be off. u might be able to set pixel hinting to true. if that’s already set it may be a bug. i’ve seen it in my spark application but haven’t been able to fix it.
January 19, 2010 - 11:49 am
simple and interesting,WOW!
January 19, 2010 - 11:51 am
@Judah: Thanks for the comment, I will try the pixel hinting workaround.
@Sheetal: Thanks a lot.
January 19, 2010 - 12:27 pm
nice one,
some suggestions,
I guess this is a very basic version and it can be much better
- I can’t feel radio button
- selected bg of first and last item is visible behind the scroll track.
- nav item font , vertical alignment.
Thanks so much, greetings!
January 20, 2010 - 8:08 am
Looks good but I am unable to open the fxp in catalyst beta 2. It fails to open with “This FXP project has been modified outside of Flash Catalyst and cannot be opened.” Any ideas?
January 20, 2010 - 8:09 am
January 20, 2010 - 9:55 am
@very, daniel: To get the component sizing right, I had to take the fxp and open it in Flash Builder. Once that is done, the beta 2 does not support round tripping to Catalyst. Let me post the Catalyst Source FXP itself. Thanks for bringing this to my notice.
January 20, 2010 - 11:39 am
@very, daniel: I have added a link to the FXP that you can use in Flash Catalyst. Let me know if that works for you.
January 21, 2010 - 6:01 pm
Hello.
First of all – thx for great job. Very good stuff.
I decide to form your skins and CSS as a theme (single swc file) – collection of such themes in my plan list.
So rather than using command line or ant, I decided to use lib FB project to do this. I made new project Plastic_lib, and put all your src to Plastic_lib src and deleted Main.mxml and Plastic.mxml. I didn’t include FlashCatalyst.swc in its source path. FB show me list of errors. I went project prefs->Flex Lib Build Path->Classes tab and changed “Include all classes from…” radiobutton to “Select cl…” and selected all classes. Errors disappeared. In project prefs->Flex Lib Build Path->Assets check css and ttf files. Plastic_lib.swc in my bin folder. To test this new theme, I made new TestPlasticTheme regular project. I took your Main.mxml to test on it and commented <!—-> as it will be matter of theme, and removed all skin class assignments (skinClass=”bla bla”) from components code cause it aldeady done in Plastic.css in Plastic_lib.swc (but you need to correct it slightly – add s|TextInput
{
skinClass: ClassReference(”components.TextInput1″);
}) to the Plastic.css file.
Than in TestPlasticTheme properties->Flex Compiler->Compiler Options I added -theme “path_to_your_lib \Plastic_lib.swc and built. Flex didn’t see font! Put UbuntuTitling-Bold.ttf in TestPlasticTheme src and all compiles good(strange thing. Font is already in swc.). All looks good except two lists
(I don’t know how to resolve it correctly, but I find two ugly ways :
1. You can rename s|List.menuList to s|List#menuList in css and give id=”menuList” in mxml to menu list(same with defaultList).
2. Rename rename s|List.menuList to .menuList and use this style as styleName property in the component.
Both approaches needs knowledge about the theme – bad.
)
It is almost fully-featured theme ,but troubles with font and list styles – don’t get it completed.
Any ideas how to resolve this.
Thx.
January 21, 2010 - 11:44 pm
@Andrew: Thanks for using my theme. Appreciate the effort that you have done. For the list styling, I would believe using your approach 2 is a good enough one. FB4 not detecting the font after the swc compile sounds bad, I need to take a look at this one.
February 20, 2010 - 12:08 am
great theme man !!!
i even liked your mac theme as well!!
gr8 work
February 26, 2010 - 2:42 pm
Excellent work,
Thank you very much!!!
March 10, 2010 - 11:05 pm
Is there anyway I can use this for a Flex 3 app?
March 11, 2010 - 1:22 pm
@Dameon: This is currently Flex 4 only.