Flex 4 Layouts on Tech Talk with Ryan Stewart

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One of my favorite features in Flex 4 is the ability to easily apply custom layouts to your components. It’s going to make things like building lists very, very interesting and let you create some unique looks. A while back I sat down with Evtim Georgiv on the SDK team to talk about layouts in Flex 4 for Adobe TV. You can check out the video below or use the link. At the end I walk through a couple of the methods that Evtim talks about and then show one of his samples that gives a glimpse into what you can do. This is definitely less of a technical session and more of a teaser so you’ll jump in and want to check out more.

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  • Subb

    Pretty cool. I’ve been doing some Java lately and I liked way layouts worked.

    But since Flash = Flying stuff, what happen during animation? Is it possible to animate the elements of a container while those elements are constrained by a layout object? Is it possible to transition from a layout to another(ex.: vertical to horizontal)?

  • http://blogu.lu/mrm mrm

    Nice video. I can’t wait to get started usign Flex 4! Although it would have been nice if you had used a more recent Gumbo build, with the “Fx” prefix dropped and all the namespace changes in place. I mean, it’s been more than two months since that happened!

  • Chucky

    Thanks for this movie, but after reading the layoutbase class the real problem appeared because when you want to change the Z value of the element, as you better know than me, GroupBase doesn’t have x, y, z, properties, you change x and y properties trough the setLayoutBoundsPosition method that only accepts the x and y property.. so how do you change the Z value in order to get something like the custom layout on the movie?Could you help me out with this?

    Thanks for the blog!:D

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