Comments on: Flex 3 Designer/Developer workflow http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/ Platform Evangelist, Adobe - Flex, Flash, AIR, ColdFusion, Rich Internet Applications Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:05:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tink http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/#comment-1101 Tink Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:46:54 +0000 http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/#comment-1101 Another misconception is that skins cannot have seamless transitions throughout all states, for example rewinding to animation between states or playing forward to a specific point. Hopefully <a href="http://www.tink.ws/blog/seemless-animated-skins-in-flex/" rel="nofollow">this</a> might give a decent example of the silliness that could be achieved. These graphics could be replaced with bitmaps animated on the timeline or small pieces of video. Basically anything you can put on the timeline in Flash. Build a template for the designers to use, and they would just need to drag the frame labels to the correct positions and then get busy on the timeline. Another misconception is that skins cannot have seamless transitions throughout all states, for example rewinding to animation between states or playing forward to a specific point.

Hopefully this might give a decent example of the silliness that could be achieved. These graphics could be replaced with bitmaps animated on the timeline or small pieces of video. Basically anything you can put on the timeline in Flash. Build a template for the designers to use, and they would just need to drag the frame labels to the correct positions and then get busy on the timeline.

]]> By: Matt Radel http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/#comment-1095 Matt Radel Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:19:00 +0000 http://www.ashorten.com/2008/02/27/flex-3-designerdeveloper-workflow/#comment-1095 Great resources - thanks for sharing! I (as a designer) do feel that skinning Flex components is pretty restrictive and cumbersome at the moment. I'm really looking forward to Thermo. Great resources - thanks for sharing! I (as a designer) do feel that skinning Flex components is pretty restrictive and cumbersome at the moment. I’m really looking forward to Thermo.

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