What is Degrafa?
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This article introduces some of the theories behind Degrafa, the basics of composition, advanced implementations, and how the framework may fit into your Flex or AIR projects.
What is Degrafa?
Degrafa is an open-source, declarative graphics framework for Flex created by developers in the RIA community. Degrafa aims to offer the quality of static graphics and the flexibility of dynamic graphics via runtime while allowing designers and developers to create dynamic graphics in MXML markup language.
Features of Degrafa include:
- A library of pre-composed shapes for you to use as well as the ability to create your own.
- Use SVG path data to create complete reusable shapes. • Flexible options for fills and strokes.
- Binding of properties for Fills, Strokes and Geometry.
- Advanced CSS support for layered backgrounds, complex border control and background image positioning based on CSS 3.
- Productive features like derivatives, composition reuse, shape libraries, repeaters, and other utilities that allow you to do more with less code.
- Light weight model-based architecture.
- Compatibility with Flex 2 and Flex 3.
Examples of Degrafa:
All of these examples can be found here.
Resources:
- Download Degrafa via Google Code
- Degrafa's API documentation
- More about Degrafa
- Samples of Degrafa
Source: InsideRIA
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