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FX SlideShow allows you to display images in your Flex applications in an elegant and stylish way.  Overall, FX Slideshow is a simple solution to creating a slideshow within Flex.

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Create a loading spinner within Flex with this neat tool called loading spinner. Loading spinner is a Flex component similar to the many “spinner.gif” that are used on Web 2.0 pages. This is a sort of progress indicator that can be used to demonstrate to the user that something is happening.

Loading spinner provides many customizable options which allow you to customize the look and feel of your loader.  This flex component can definitely come in handy when developing your next Flex project.  Enjoy!

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FX Video is an open source video player built with Flex. The FX Video control lets you play an FLV file in a Flex application. It also supports progressive download over HTTP, streaming from the Flash Media Server, and streaming from a Camera object.

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What is the Visualization Component?

The visualization component displays sound spectrum data in a variety of graphical formats and supports the use of bitmap effects without requiring changes to the component class itself. It draws dynamically based on size and keeps memory consumption to a minimum.

This is simply a very nice tool to integrate audio visualizations within any of your Flex projects and offers the flexibility to due so.

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Creator: Ben Stucki
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Demo of visualization component

In a previous post, I introduced a new MXML component called ImageRail created by Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er}. Andrei has added updated it to add some new features that were considered missing.

The list of new features include:

• imageClick: triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the canvas that holds an image
• imageBackgroundAlpha: able to set the background alpha of the each canvas that hold images
• HandCursor: hand cursor upon hovering image

If your interested in learning more about these nice additions to the ImageRail component, be sure to visit FLEX{er} to get all the info.

Source: FLEX{er}

Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er} presented a new MXML component called ImageRail. This MXML component displays a series of thumbnails with the capability to scroll them horizontally. While ImageRail has a nice set of features it is fully extendable and is actually encouraged to do so.

Modifiable Parameters Include:

• paths: an array containing URLs to images
• images: an array containing image objects
• imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time
• imagesGap: an unsigned integer that specifies the gap between images
• passePartout: an unsigned integer that specifies the white padding around each image
• effect: a function that in fact is the easing function (total of 10)
• effectDuration: an unsigned integer that specifies the duration in milliseconds
• height: a number that specifies the height of the component, based on which all others measures are calculated
• width: a number that specifies the width

You can view the component and download the source via

FLEX{er}. This is a nice contribution to the Flex community. Now I just need to figure out how I can use this in an existing or future project. Enjoy!

Update: ImageRail Update: Adding Click Event, Styles And Handcursor

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