http://www.betterthanflex.com Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:06:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've created a basic radial context menu that can be used for simple tool selection or navigation. Because of the right-click limitations in Flash/Flex I have made it accessible with Ctrl-click, but I may apply the javascript hack that makes right-click possible. There are 2 standard modes of interaction. If you ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=19 This is a component which has been sitting around on my hard drive for a while. I thought I may as well release it for anyone who was interested. It's a component that turns a string of digits into a 7-segment (alarm-clock style) display. There is also a 16-segment ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=18 This little application was born out of the desire to see how long it was going to be until my big overseas trip in September. We've all seen countdown timers which tell us the number of minutes until the next MAX conference or the next release of flex builder, but ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=17 I've finally got around to publishing the source for the Light Gauge, it can be found here. The zip file also includes the source for the original Gauge component. In the process of creating the Light Gauge, I came across a bit of a hole in the Flash/Flex class libraries. There ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=16 I was inspired by a recent slashdot post that mentioned the Quicktime ASCII Movie Player. So I hacked up a quick Flex application and in no time i had what I like to call. To quote, it's watching movies "the way ubergeeks were truly meant to" Basically it just samples pixels from ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=13 Multithreading. When I'm running a CPU intensive application and It's spluttering along on one core, I despair at all that processing power going to waste. I think the picture sums it up. http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=12 There's been a bit of a flex component drought on the site lately, but I finally have the next one ready. It's another gauge, but this time with blinkenlights. I've created a Light Gauge Explorer, where you can customize the gauge, or you can just skip to the Demo and ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=9 In response to Shaun's comment on the gauge, I have added interactivity to the component so it can now be used to set the value from user interaction. If you click anywhere on the dial (and interactivity is on), the needle will move to that position. I'm not sure the gauge ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=8 Betterthanflex.com is an outlet for Adobe Flex applications and components that I create in my spare time. At the moment I have been interested in creating a set of data visualization components in Flex, and to start things off, I give you my Gauge. It is a basic needle-style gauge ... http://www.betterthanflex.com/?p=4