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Get the view size inside of a Container in Flex

Keith H — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:02:22 +0000

For some odd reason you might want to get the width and height of the inside of a Container. You can use the "viewMetrics" property of a container to do it. In the following example I overlay a green box over a Panel to show how it matches the Panel's size. Comments are welcome.

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Everyone gets a turn

Keith H — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:14:18 +0000

If everyone got a turn, would you take your turn the same as the others or be different?

I've seen lots of really great knobs, dials, and gauge components. The intended way a person would build their app to use one would most likely be varied . That makes each of these kinds of controls special because its difficult to make a control that fits a very broad range of functionality/look-n-feel, and probably why I have yet to see "one knob to rule them all". Sliders, and Buttons are pretty straight forward, but not the "Knob" type of control.

Knobs can be just like a glass of tea. Some like a twist of lemon in it, or twist of lime etc. Just like others who have made their own controls tailor made to their needs, I have done with my knob. The good thing about that is there's always more than one person who share the same preference on how a knob should function. I've made many custom knobs that were built for small and simple duties. I'd like to make a knob to share here that is more reusable and cover wider ranges of functionality than the older ones I've built. The knob displayed here is configurable but not skinnable, I've chosen to draw my knob dynamically with ActionScript's drawing API. I hope to release this one after fixing some problems in my spare time.

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Nice Knobs …for Flex

Keith H — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:31:06 +0000

Here is a Flex UI component I've been writing. Click the image to play with what I have made so far.
You can change a variety of properties. The dial and mark are runtime skinnable by setting its "dialBackgroundSkin" or "dialMarkSkin" property to a url with an image.

Knobs and dials just look cool...I don't know anything about audio editing but I like the site of a sound studio. This is the "Reason" I decided to make a knob component.