Gumbo (Flex 4) plays generated sounds in Style
Keywords: FXG, GUI, gumbo, look and feel, skinning, sounds
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…)