The Bitmap API of the Flex framework is advantageous to implement Bitmap related Flex Applications. Flash Player utilize the Bitmap API to render the every visual object within SWF as a bitmap (i.e get cached). Only the Visual Objects which are marked as “dirty” will be redrawn on every frame of interval. So The amount of resources used to render each frame is significantly reduced.
Archive for August, 2008
Flex UI SnapShot Component
Flex Resizable Panel Component
The following component extends the Panel class, adds a functionality so that it can resizable.
This component extends the Panel class, adds a button at the title bar of the panel so that when that button clicked, the panel get minimized / maximized depending on its current state.
Flex HTML ToolTip Component
Flex components accepts plain text to display as ToolTip. So there is no way to format the ToolTip text. So i looked into this problem, i checked the source code of the class “ToolTip”. There i got a very easy solution for this.
Flex Image ToolTip Component
Flex has Built-In support to display the ToolTips. The Built-In Options of ToolTip doesn’t support to display the IMAGES in ToolTips. This looks like a restriction to one who wants to show IMAGES in ToolTips along with TEXT. So i have created a Image ToolTip Component, Which allows you to specify any Embedded Image or any Image URL to display an image into ToolTip along with Text below the Image.
The fonts style list as we see in MS word, excel etc, shows the list of fonts name with that respective font Style, which gives the pre-look to the user when applied it to the text. In flex we don’t have such ComboBox which displays the Fonts List with respective Font Styles. So i caught this point at developed a FontStyleList component.
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Roll Over Image is an interactive element of HTML Pages, The element has two images for UP and OVER states and on clicking the Roll Over element navigates to specified URL. I have come across to create a same Roll Over element in flex.
Flex Multi Column Text Container
Flex has a lots of text related built-in components, like Text, Label, TextArea etc. Every text component in flex display the text in one column. So i thought to create a component which support for multi columns to display the specified text.