Where can I find a free but good-quality and customizable carousel component for Flex 4?
Loook at that.
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html
Tour de Flex is full of good libraries.
Claudio.
Recently I came upon this nice clean carousel component written specifically for Flex 4, and it's free:
http://webverwirklichung.com/en/blog/programming/flex/3d-carousel-layout-flex
FTQuest
The most popular one was built by Doug McCune. It is not built natively in Spark, but source code is available and you can recompile it for Flex 4.
I thought it was part of Flexlib, but since I don't see it listed look here.
I know you are asking specifically for free, but a great resource for components (including quite a few carousels) along with source code can be found at http://activeden.net/ for darn near free (a few dollars). Hope that helps.
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In the near future, I have to update a bigger XPage application (development time more than three years) now running on a Domino Server 8.5.3 FP6 to Domino Server 9. In this application I am using IBM OneUIv2.1 but I am unsure if I should use it further. Unfortunately I have no experience with Bootstrap, however in one of the last Extension Library releases an essential part of the update was for Bootstrap:
This release is the sixteenth IBM Notes Domino 9.0.1 version of the
XPages Extension Library (ExtLib) to OpenNTF. This release contains a
significant Bootstrap upgrade to 3.3.6.
So for me it seems to be the XPages CSS Framework of the future?
Am I right?
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!
I use oneUI at the day job. There are some very good things about it. However, I'm trying to get my company and all my personal work migrated to Bootstrap. OneUI is not really responsive. Even if that's not a big issue for you the biggest reason to avoid oneUI is the lack of documentation and materials for it. There actually is documentation for oneUI But nothing like Bootstrap - the most popular framework going as far as I know. Heck right here on StackOverFlow over 59,000 questions have been asked on Bootstrap. There's tons of resources like bootsnipp.com. In my opinion it's almost a no brainer that Bootstrap should be used over oneUI if at all possible.
As long as IBM won't deliver us the new "Verse" UI (which I'd refer to as OneUI Next) I'd prefer the Bootstrap UI as it is responsive. I wouldn't say that it's IBM's future UI framework as departments seem to develop indepently IMHO. The Ireland guys are proclaiming Bootstrap but the IBM Design team propagate their own styles. As always: not a straight strategy here.
But when it comes to application modernization I'd prefer Bootstrap. The next iteration will include Bootstrap 4, too (the final version).
Anyway, using Bootstrap instead of OneUI will deliver more straight and simplified CSS classes other than the "LotusUI" stuff in OneUI.
Just my 2 cents.
Yes, I agree you are right. IBM is staying in front of the curve in supporting Bootstrap for the future. I don't believe that they are investing any more resources in OneUI at this point in time. (Good news, IMO)
On the surface, your question appears opinion based, but really you need to be concerned with the level of support/investment by the IBM XPages team.
If you haven't view it already, I would recommend the TLCC webinar given this month (Feb 2016) by Brian Gleeson and Martin Donnelly on Responsive Design using Bootstrap with XPages. The team is being extremely proactive in preparing to support Bootstrap 4 which isn't even released yet.
This is the link to the webinar which is very well done: https://youtu.be/0ylbKHyiFyY
a big advantage with Bootstrap in comparison with oneUI is that there are many sites where snippets for controls / layouts / panels are being shared.
if you stick close to the oneUI defintion you are limited in your presentation options.
also Bootstrap is targetted against multiple clients (mobil / desktop / large) which oneUI is not. so if that is a requirement I definitely recommend bootstrap above oneUI.
there is a learning curve with Bootstrap but manageable.
with Bootstrap I hardly use dojo anymore and disable it in xpages whenever possible.
there are also limitations with bootstrap, e.g. motion awareness but you can overcome them with plugins. you would probably experience the same limitations with oneUI.
once you go bootstrap, you can't get back (to oneUI).
I have little experience with other front-end frameworks so I can not advice on that.
is it possible to create a pre-loader using plainly Flex 4? I've seen tutorials on how to make one but each of them requires that I have Flash Professional or Flash Catalyst.
I have absolutely no experience when it comes to implementing pre-loaders as well as making one. So please try to elaborate a little more.
Thanks!
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7e3c.html#WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf62d75-7fef
Hope that helps.
Shaun
I'm interested in integrating CKEditor into my Flex 3 application so that users can generate full HTML documents. After some quick googling, I am interested in using CKEditor, but I can't find any home-run success stories on using it with Flex 3. For example, I found:
http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/10/25/ckeditor-running-in-flex-and-air/
and a couple of similar blogs. Based on posted comments, however, it looks like there either may be integration issues, cross-browser issues, or similar gotchas.
I'd like some advice on scoping this effort and potential pitfalls, and any pointers to useful snippets, tutorials or blogs on similar efforts. I am also open to better HTML editors for flex -- I just haven't found any.
I was able to get mine working (with Bob Tate's help setting everything up) without having to use Drumbeat Insight's control. if you need some help or pointers, email me directly with CKEditor in the subject line. jeremysl#hotmail.com
You can't really integrate a non-Flex component into a Flex application.
Your best bet is to look into using the iFrame trick to make it appear as if CFEditor is part of your Flex application. Google around for iFrame trick to find more info on it.
There is an HTML Component from Drumbeat Insight that helps solve a lot of the issues w/ this trick.
Is there any opensourse, free set of components for creating Flex mxml graphs?
like aviary Peacock style ones
(source: peacockwiki at sites.google.com)
with at least Drag, drop, and connect generators
so each graph element could have
(source: peacockwiki at sites.google.com)
or something like that.
Framework should be opensource (like GPL, LGPL etc)
BTW: I found one wary bacic made by Erno Aapa with Degrafa but I would really love to see something much more Flex 4 - mxml oriented and frienfdly.
So blog articles, Google code projects, anything - please help
I don't have a specific answer for you; but just some places to go look.
Have you looked at the Advanced Charting and Visualization package from Adobe? They are part of the open source SDK with the release of Flex 4.
You already mentioned Degra. I understood that Degrafa stands for Declarative Graphics. I'm surprised you'd say it is not MXML friendly.
Have you looked at Axiss? It is another project out there, and I believe it relies heavily on Degrafa.
You said open source, but didn't say free. So, I believe source code is available if you purchase a license to iLog. I'm not sure about FusionCharts, but I've heard very positive things about it from other Flex Developers.
Moccasin and Flex Wires combined should get you most of the way there.
Searching the site didn't help, so if anybody has good tips for getting up to speed with Cairngorm?!
I have to make an ultra quickstart on this framework, since I have to dive into an existing project ASAP.
Any help is much appreciated!
This guys created a Flex application to help explain the work flow:
http://robsondesign.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/18/cairngorm-diagram-explorer-update/
I found this 5 part tutorial at www.davidtucker.net to be very practical and hands on. David moves fast but also gives solid descriptions for almost everything he does. The tutorial includes both blog posts and video code-alongs. I recommend doing both. The download files get a little messed up (renaming, Adobe AIR, Flex Web app), so I had to follow the code-alongs and use the downloaded source only for reference (I opened in a separate editor and copy and pasted as needed).
you don't mention which version of Cairngorm, but this is a good place to start if you are using version 2.1 or earlier.
cairngorm docs
The beta for Cairngorm 3 is out and you can find whatever info there currently is at
cairngorm 3
Here is a simple animated short about Cairngorm
Then you need to understand the MVC architectural pattern
Why to use design patterns (inspiration/motivation)
Then go ahead to these Cairngorm related links/videos:
Getting started links
Video tutorials
Then start coding:
A real case to work with
There's a book from Wrox on Amazon that really helped me Professional Cairngorm