[flexcoders] Re: Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

Hi All,

Sorry I have not been tracking Flex Coders as much as I should have.

To answer some questions.

1) Yes this is the Degrafa gauge component.
2) I put it as v0.4 component because it is my forth release, but I have never 
personally 
regression tested it.  Usually if I put a 1.0 label on something it means I 
have run it through 
regression testing and consider it commercial quality.  Obviously I have 
tested it, but not 
with the rigor I would if I was shipping it commercially.

You can also see more data visualization and degrafa examples from my preso at 
360|Flex

http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/08/360-flex-data-visualization-code.html

- Tom

[flexcoders] Re: Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, twgonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
Update v.04 released  New features:  Alert Levels Log Scale BounceEffect
on/off More accurate tick marks  You can see it here
http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/07/gauge-component-new-features-
v04.html  .

[flexcoders] Re: Chart itemRenderer and CSS

[twgonzalez]

Peter,

Did you ever submit a bug on this in JIRA, or determine a work-around.  I am 
struggling 
with the same issue, and looking at the source code for the charts, it does not 
seem like 
they are creating a factory if none exists.

- Tom

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I have custom item renderer for a ColumnChart in Flex 3 b3.
 
 I can make it work in MXML or ActionScript, but I get errors when I do
 it with CSS.
 
 works:
 columnSeries.setStyle(itemRenderer, new ClassFactory(MyRenderer));
 
 works:
 ColumnSeries itemRenderer=package.MyRenderer /
 
 Doesn't work:
 .mySeries {
 itemRenderer:ClassReference('package.MyRenderer');
 }
 
 
 The error is that it can't convert MyRenderer$ to IFactory. I have
 tried using a class that implements IFactory too, but it still falls
 over because it's not creating an instance, to even be able to call
 the newInstance() method.
 
 It looks like a bug in the charts, because other components can handle
 this ok, but t's hard to know without the chart source...
 
 
 Peter

[flexcoders] Re: Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, twgonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In an effort to contribute back to this community I wanted to share
this
 component which I actually developed a couple of years ago but was
 unable to share due to IP constraints.

 Now I can safely contribute this back the community as a small way of
 saying thanks.  View source is enabled when you follow the link to the
 live demo.  Any comments/suggestions/feature requests are more than
 welcome.

 - Tom

 http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html

   http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html

[flexcoders] Re: Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

Update - v.02 released.

There is now a new version of the gauge component that is completely
re-written and leverages Degrafa.

This makes it super simple to swap skins and have the gauge function in
a wider array of user experiences.  I built a simple dial skin as well
as the original gauge skin to demonstrate, but by using degrafa you will
only be limited by your imagination in terms of how you can skin and
radically alter the appearance and purpose of this component.

Here is the link:

http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/04/gauge-component-v02.html

- Tom

[flexcoders] Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

In an effort to contribute back to this community I wanted to share this
component which I actually developed a couple of years ago but was
unable to share due to IP constraints.

Now I can safely contribute this back the community as a small way of
saying thanks.  View source is enabled when you follow the link to the
live demo.  Any comments/suggestions/feature requests are more than
welcome.

- Tom

http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html

  http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html

[flexcoders] Re: Free Flex Gauge Component

[twgonzalez]

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Sanjiv Jivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Looks great Tom. Do you know of any good book / site that covers
creation of
 custom flex components?
 
 Thanks,
 Sanjiv
 
 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:57 AM, twgonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
In an effort to contribute back to this community I wanted to
share this
  component which I actually developed a couple of years ago but was
unable to
  share due to IP constraints.
 
  Now I can safely contribute this back the community as a small way of
  saying thanks.  View source is enabled when you follow the link to
the live
  demo.  Any comments/suggestions/feature requests are more than
welcome.
 
  - Tom
 
  http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html
 
  http://form-function.blogspot.com/2008/03/gauge-component-v01.html
 
   
 

Hello Sanjiv,

Well, there is the Yahoo group for Flex Components. Outside of that  I
don't know of any books off the top of my head that are specific to
the topic.   There is a lot of material on the web, mostly in blogs
around that topic.   Check out the blog roll.   Ely Greefield (primary
Flex architect) has some pretty good content on his blog:
http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/.

For me personally, it was just a natural evolution of learning Flex
and wanting to make it do things that weren't in the framework.

- Tom