I am very new to Flex and I am ready (maybe too early) to jump into building my custom component. What I plan to do is sort like the iPhone home screen, when you smear your figure (in my case would be drag the cursor) over those widget icons, the whole screen is dragged horizontally, in a sort of easing out fashion.
I am thinking of doing this in a HBox but I am a little bit hesitate as to how I should implement the drag functionality. By looking briefly at the Drag and Drop Manager class, it looks like I'd be better off doing my own implementation of drag since I don't need a drop target, etc. (What I will do is pretty much like when mouseDown, I start a loop to detect and calculate the speed of cursor and when mouseUp use this value to accelerate/decelerate the velocity of the widget HBox...) Am I on the right track? Are there any pattern(s), traps, etc. that I need to be aware of before I jump in? Thanks!
