xero, xero harrison, harrison, nu, x-e.ro, whois.x-e.ro, blog.x-e.ro, code.x-e.ro, lab.x-e.ro, img.x-e.ro, etc.x-e.ro, feeds.x-e.ro, fontvir.us, fontvirus, font, fonts, git, portfolio, program, programming, code, coding, codes, codez, dev, develop, developer, qoob, open qoob, openqoob, framework, code, api, lab, laboratory, experiment, experiments, demo, netart, net art, unixporn, unix porn, unixp0rn, unixpr0n, images, photos, etc, random https://blog.x-e.ro Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:08 -0400 https://blog.x-e.ro open[qoob] https://blog.x-e.ro/custom_flex_skins https://blog.x-e.ro/custom_flex_skins

<p><img title="skinned flex app" src="http://blog.x-e.ro/ui/img/blog/uploads/skinned-app.gif" alt="skinned flex app" width="500" height="136" /></p> <p><span>creating web-applications with flex 3 is great. there are a ton of pre-made components, and an open-ended architecture to allow you to create your own. built into flex is also a variety of options to change the visual styles of the components. today i will talk about two different types of customization. first, the simplest method, is using css to style your components. next, the more advanced technique, is creating component skins. for this example i will be using flash cs3.</span><br /><br /><span>with in a flex mxml application, css is natively understood. so by utilizing the </span>tags, we can create a variety of styles for an application. personally, i don't really care for the eclipse/flex built in css editor, but since flex uses valid css, any editor can work!</p>

xero harrison 2008-06-05T14:22:00-04:00 https://blog.x-e.ro/flex_forms_as_3d_textures https://blog.x-e.ro/flex_forms_as_3d_textures

<p><img src="http://blog.x-e.ro/ui/img/blog/uploads/flex-com-3D.png" alt="3D flex components" title="3D flex components" width="710" height="307" /></p><p>i guess this is more of a test then a real demo. in flex its extremely simple to access the bitmap data from any component on the screen as it is styled at that time. this includes things like text with in a text box.<br />in this example, create a flex panel</p> <pre class="brush: xml"><mx:Panel id="myPanel" /> </pre> <p>then create a bitmapdata object</p> <pre class="brush: as3">var formTexture = new BitmapData; </pre> <p>then draw the panel right into it</p> <pre class="brush: as3">formTexture.draw(myPanel);</pre> <p>then I use that texture on a 3D plane with the help of <a href="http://papervision3d.org/" target="_blank">papervsion3D</a>. and a little glow filter just because...</p>

xero harrison 2007-12-29T12:45:00-05:00 https://blog.x-e.ro/graphic_reset_buttons https://blog.x-e.ro/graphic_reset_buttons

<p>i was having some trouble at work creating form buttons with graphics for reset buttons. i just thought someone might be interested in my non-javascript solution:</p> <pre class="brush: xml"><button style="background: none; border: none;"> <img src="reset.jpg" alt="" /> </button> </pre>

xero harrison 2006-03-02T14:13:00-05:00