The video for my recent presentation at the 360Flex conference was just posted. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Finally, here is the source code and demo for SearchTransition, an application that demonstrates animated transitions that's shown in this video that got posted a few weeks ago. First, let's see the demo: And here's the source code. Note that it's just the one file: no image assets, no other ActionScript code; it all works by simple MXML code and use of the standard Flex effects. I'll leave the explanation of the code and application to the video, so check that out if you haven't seen it yet. Enjoy!

Someone asked, in the comments to my Springtime posting, how that effect could be generalized to apply to DataGrid items. I came up with this simple demo to show the same effect at work for each item in the grid: The only change I needed to make to the underlying Spring effect was to make it deal with IUIComponent, instead of UIComponent. The original demo only works on components.

The video for my SearchTransition demo has just been posted on Adobe TV: Check back in a few days for the source code to this demo (dangit, more code to go clean up...).

Here, finally, is the source code for the Spring effect seen in the video posted on Adobe TV last week. I took my time posting it because I didn't want to spring it on you too suddenly. Or maybe it was the wrong season (not the winter of my discontent, but the summer of my abject laziness). Or more probably, I just had other stuff to do, like code to actually write and check into Flex 4.

Adobe TV has posted another of my 'filthy rich' videos. My favorite part of this one (at least on the Adobe site - not sure if it holds true for the embedded version below) is the still frame in the thumbnail on the Adobe TV home page. I look like I'm holding up a field goal for the extra point in a game of paper football. In this video, I show the "Spring" effect, with a Flex app that I wrote based on an original Java application by Romain Guy.

You saw it on Adobe TV, now you can see it in code....Here is the running demo and source code for the Pulse application seen on the Developer channel of Adobe TV.Rather than spend time here reiterating on what I said on the video, I'll just refer you to the video to get the motivation for the effect as well as the code walkthrough.

Adobe TV has posted the second and third installments of the Top Drawer videos that we made, showing how we turn mouse events (Part II) into graphical shapes (Part III). Be sure to also check out my original Top Drawer postings (here, here, here, and here) that link to the source code for the project.

The folks at Adobe TV have been shooting some videos recently of Adobe people doing quick techy presentations and these are starting to get posted on the Developer area. I've done some episodes on "Top Drawer" (the same application that was the subject of some of my earlier blogs here, here, here, and here) and various "filthy rich" effects. My videos should be rolling out on the Adobe TV site in the next few days and weeks. I'll link to the videos as they get posted. For now, check out Top Drawer, Part I.

Q: What did the layout manager say to the anxious component? A: Contain Yourself! Q: Is it possible for components to be arranged without a layout manager? A: Absolutely! Q: How did the component feel about its first animated layout? A: It was a moving experience. Q: What do you call the animation objects owned by a component? A: The component's personal Effects. Q: Why is an animating container a risky real estate investment? A: It's a transitional area.