In this episode, we talk about how you can create programmatic skinning in your Flex components
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Designing Flex 3 skins and styles using Creative Suite 3 and Flex Builder 3�
In today’s 5 mins Flex, I cover how you can use viewstate to define different state for your application.
Example files: http://www.box.net/shared/44uxz1r28w
More viewstates related article: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/creating_states/
SuperImage from Quieting Scheming is a must use and an excellent replacement for the Image component for List Component in Flex. If you have tried to develop mashup that tap into Flickr / YouTube / any type of API that load into thumbnail and images, you will realize that if your List control scrolls, the image will flicker very badly. This is because the image is not cached internally and thus this impact very badly on the performance as well as to the scrolling. My previous ’solution’ is to make sure that the user do not get the chance to scroll, and thus, only fetching a pre-setted number of results. This problem is solved by the Super Image, which caches the images internally.
If you are facing the same problem, download SuperImage now and try it on your Flex application. You will be surprised!
