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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:25:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: Halo x Spark
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I am not sure what you were trying to do... but with a little bit of
research you should have been able to still use Flex 4 for your project.
There is a learning curve to get behind the concept so I have felt your
pain before but if you stick with it it does get somewhat easier. I have
had to resort back to OLD school ways and Draw a lot of graphical stuff for
Mobile Development with the Drawing API, but for desktop stuff you should
be able to go with MXML.

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/11/04/setting-a-custom-horizontal-scroll-=
bar-skin-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/

Hang in there! You can Do it! :)

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Cortlandt Winters <cort@cortwinters.net>wr=
ote:

> Hi Will,
>
> I do have a prediction. And it's not a dire one.
>
> It's true what  you say, but though this is an area that the flex
> components most need some TLC in, I'm confident that it's the one area th=
at
> it's most likely to get it.
>
> As for predictions, I predict that Adobe will do what it said it will do
> and it will leave Flex "5?" in a pretty stable state. It will take some
> time for folk to get familiar with the apache process and the framework a=
nd
> to determine how to deal with scrolling on mobile apps that have a whole
> new level of performance requirement, but that there are going to be plen=
ty
> of opportunities to make both web based apps easy to skin and mobile ones
> performant.
>
> The toughest part about taking flex and making it open source is that mos=
t
> flex users are not component developers, they are end user app developers=
,
> but as far as folk that are comfortable with styling and skinning there
> should be a lot of easily available expertise to create a good system.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Williams Farias <will.farias@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Greatings everyone,
> >
> > I=B4d like to know why does Spark skining is so dificult to get a simpl=
e
> > result.
> >
> > I=B4m building now a web application and I need just to skin the Scroll=
Bar.
> > Ok, in Flex3 i just open my Flash CS5, create a new Symbol and "Export
> for
> > actionscript". Then i just add 4 new lines in my CSS style code, and it=
s
> > done. I have now a simple and 2 minuts made scrollbar.
> >
> > But in Spark component... ohhh, what a brutal work i=B4d had to take...
> > create a new Style... and put everything on the code... ohhh man, thats=
 a
> > really waste of time with hundreds of codes lines and without a design
> > interface to see how it looks like... in my opinion its too much work f=
or
> > such a little result!
> >
> > Just because of that scrollbar man, i had to decide to use Flex 3 inste=
d
> of
> > 4!!! A simple and  mediocre scrollbar skin!
> >
> > I was wondering: how can the most simple thing to do in Flex could be
> > transformed in a bunch of lines and hard work as that scrolllBar skin?
> >
> > If i could propose something to chance in the next releases of Flex, is=
 a
> > mix of Halo and Spark Skins. I think that Flex3 skinning is much more
> > simple and intelligent to do.
> >
> > Antoher thing that frightened me was to read that Adobe will not update
> > more the Design View of Flash Builder! Does Apacge group have any
> > prediction about this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Williams Farias
> >
>

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