The CSS skin Alex cited is called Flat UI [1].
FlatSpark is basically a port from that skin, our main goal was to be as
close to that as possible. That's why FlatSpark has some limitations
regarding customization, we just tried to port the skin, maintaining its
colors and pre-defined sizes.
Spark skinning also obeys CSS rules. In a spark skin, you can for example,
call getStyle(borderColor) and use that to draw a Rect with the given
color. Or call getStyle(themeColor) and apply that color to a
LinearGradient Rect.
In addition, on the SVG side, individual shapes can be fully styled
After talking with Alex a bit more, it seems there are two paths we can
take, both valid and both really worth exploring.
One is the MXML/designer UI path where skins are specific either in MXML,
drawn in some way, and/or created using a design tool. This skins follow
from Spark skins.
The other
Well, IMO, the default Spark skins are a middle ground where they support
certain styles, some of which are not CSS compliant. But a Spark Skin can
be completely non-styleable. If you create it via FXG, or just use MXML
without any code, you pretty much can’t get it to support styles.
I’m
I don’t have well-formed thoughts on this topic, but the following
occurred to me.
On the JS side, the browser has a powerful CSS engine. Drawing skins in
AS/MXML won’t leverage that. So these kinds of themes may not be
styleable. I think that’s fine, but IMO, Spark skins were designed to
have
Working backwards from JS/CSS seems to be the best route, no matter how it
is implemented. We know there are some least-common denominators such as
background color and border, so perhaps we start there to formulate a plan.
I do think we should try and use the core.graphics package which is
Hi,
I am thinking about using FlatSpark as either inspiration for a set of skins
for FlexJS or porting it over to FlexJS. Since FlexJS is more
JavaScript-minded (what you can do in ActionScript/MXML must translate to
JavaScript) I'm thinking that FlexJS skins would need to keep this in mind.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Peter Ent p...@adobe.com wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking about using FlatSpark as either inspiration for a set of
skins for FlexJS or porting it over to FlexJS. Since FlexJS is more
JavaScript-minded (what you can do in ActionScript/MXML must translate to
On 1/27/15, 2:31 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala bigosma...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Peter Ent p...@adobe.com wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking about using FlatSpark as either inspiration for a set of
skins for FlexJS or porting it over to FlexJS. Since FlexJS is more
