Comments on: Flex Application background gradient

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:32:58 +0000

I’ve seen this before when I was looking into Microsoft Silverlight, or more specific Expression Blend. Blend generates similar xml. MXML has always been clean and readable but if it’s going to be like this we’ll need a better editor. Eclipse may not even be the right platform for what we’ll need then.
I’ve also heard that the fla file format’s going to be text based rather than binary (hooray, source control). I wonder what that will look like.

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:13:25 +0000

Giving up pasting code. Anyways, in Flex 4 you can use FXG to easily declare a radial gradient fill in a custom Application skin. http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/12/23/creating-a-radial-gradient-fill-on-a-rect-object-in-flex-gumbo/

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:20 +0000

Trying again w/code:

By: Corey

Corey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:11:36 +0000

For what it's worth in Flex 4 you can create a simple custom Application skin (MXML) and use the following declarative fill (sample radial gradient):

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:38:43 +0000

I wasn’t referring to this example as something that took me hours, although it took me some time to figure out that I had to use the backgroundImage (note the word “image”) property to set the backgroundGradient to.

It just takes me more time to figure these things out in the Flex Framework than in plain Actionscript. I’ve been working with Flex since Flex 1.5 and still I discover things like this.

By: Tink

Tink — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:06:56 +0000

This to me seem like a good flexible (excuse the pun) solution and not something that should take hours.

Stuff like this only takes hours when you don’t know how to approach it. The same can be said for Flash. If you didn’t know about listening to the Stage for a resize and how to draw gradients etc.