Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Napkin skins in Flex

How easy is it to skin a Flex application? As an experiment, I tried to create something that looks like the Napkin L&F for a simple Flex app. (The idea of the Napkin L&F is to have your UI look like it was scrawled on a napkin -- which might be useful if you wanted people to get the fact that your mock-up was just a mock-up and not a fully functional app.)

The application is a slightly modified version of the DataGrid sample from the Flex 2 Component Explorer. Here are the "before" and "after" screenshots (click on the screenshot to see the app):
before:

after:

So, was it easy? I'll break it down into three separate stages. The first stage involves adding CSS styles and graphical skins to the app; the second stage involves using programmatic skins; the third stage deals with subclassing Flex framework classes in order to achieve fine-grained control of the look-and-feel.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Absolutely terrific!

I give us an inspiration to go forward with Flex2 by displaying beautiful things.

BIG THANK YOU.

Anonymous said...

Woah! I even think your Flex napkin L&F looks better than the Java version. Great job...

Eylon said...

Update: added links to posts about the three stages.

Anonymous said...

thanks a lot for this source!!!!!!!!!! I'm just begining as a rich internet application developer an your example was really useful in order to understand skinning merging CSS styles and ActionScript classes. Thanks a lot!!

Anonymous said...

where is the source that was referenced in the above post? WOuld like ot have a look at it if possible... thanks!

Anonymous said...

nevermind - brain farted on this one - duh - view source.... erg

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