I am not sure what you were trying to do... but with a little bit of research you should have been able to still use Flex 4 for your project. There is a learning curve to get behind the concept so I have felt your pain before but if you stick with it it does get somewhat easier. I have had to resort back to OLD school ways and Draw a lot of graphical stuff for Mobile Development with the Drawing API, but for desktop stuff you should be able to go with MXML.
http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/11/04/setting-a-custom-horizontal-scroll-bar-skin-on-a-spark-list-control-in-flex-4/ Hang in there! You can Do it! :) On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Cortlandt Winters <c...@cortwinters.net>wrote: > Hi Will, > > I do have a prediction. And it's not a dire one. > > It's true what you say, but though this is an area that the flex > components most need some TLC in, I'm confident that it's the one area that > it's most likely to get it. > > As for predictions, I predict that Adobe will do what it said it will do > and it will leave Flex "5?" in a pretty stable state. It will take some > time for folk to get familiar with the apache process and the framework and > to determine how to deal with scrolling on mobile apps that have a whole > new level of performance requirement, but that there are going to be plenty > of opportunities to make both web based apps easy to skin and mobile ones > performant. > > The toughest part about taking flex and making it open source is that most > flex users are not component developers, they are end user app developers, > but as far as folk that are comfortable with styling and skinning there > should be a lot of easily available expertise to create a good system. > > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Williams Farias <will.far...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Greatings everyone, > > > > I´d like to know why does Spark skining is so dificult to get a simple > > result. > > > > I´m building now a web application and I need just to skin the ScrollBar. > > Ok, in Flex3 i just open my Flash CS5, create a new Symbol and "Export > for > > actionscript". Then i just add 4 new lines in my CSS style code, and its > > done. I have now a simple and 2 minuts made scrollbar. > > > > But in Spark component... ohhh, what a brutal work i´d had to take... > > create a new Style... and put everything on the code... ohhh man, thats a > > really waste of time with hundreds of codes lines and without a design > > interface to see how it looks like... in my opinion its too much work for > > such a little result! > > > > Just because of that scrollbar man, i had to decide to use Flex 3 insted > of > > 4!!! A simple and mediocre scrollbar skin! > > > > I was wondering: how can the most simple thing to do in Flex could be > > transformed in a bunch of lines and hard work as that scrolllBar skin? > > > > If i could propose something to chance in the next releases of Flex, is a > > mix of Halo and Spark Skins. I think that Flex3 skinning is much more > > simple and intelligent to do. > > > > Antoher thing that frightened me was to read that Adobe will not update > > more the Design View of Flash Builder! Does Apacge group have any > > prediction about this? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Williams Farias > > >
