Archive for May 5th, 2010

DualPanel Reversible Component

This week I’ve been discussing with Alberto from undefined.es different ways to implement a reversible panel. Basically a reversible panel would be a 2-sides panel. In the front part you could have the component or widget and in the back you could have a configuration panel (same concept as in the OSX Dashboard widgets).
One way [...]

Template Components in Flex4

Template Components can be quite common in different sort of applications. Maybe the most common one is the Panel, which has a predefined set of components (title bar, status bar, close button, etc) and an specific area where we can instantiate any other component we wish.
In Flex3 you could use the technique explained in the [...]

Disabling Bindings on certain Views to avoid unnecessary processing time

Once a view has been created, Bindings will always be active no matter if the view is invisible or removed from Stage.
There might be cases when a View is constantly receiving Binding updates (i.e. connected to an LCDS server with big amount of data transfer or messages). Imagine the view that is processing all the [...]