Today I had a closer look at the new skinning architecture of Gumbo. Here’s a little example that uses a couple of custom slider components. This custom component extends the standard gumbo VSlider by composition and integrates custom skins. click here to see example. Needs flash player 10 (beta rc1).

The Gumbo VSlider expects (more…)

The past few days I was digging a bit into Gumbo (flex 4 beta). I was happy to see that flex 4 will take a lightweight approach regarding components. Components are stripped down to their most basic behavior and there’s now a clean separation between model, controller and view.

This, in combination with an enhanced state architecture and the newly integrated graphics tag library FXG, makes it a snap to create a custom look and feel in flex (especially when CS4 export or thermo integration will be ready)

Here is a little example of a GUI done in Gumbo (flex 4 beta) to wrap up my sound experiments done earlier.

click here. Needs the latest Flash-Player 10 (rc of 091508).

The GUI for the player is straight forward. It uses some FXG-Elements to (more…)