Hi,
I haven't used effects much in my first Flex project, only in two areas really:
- fade effect for tooltips
- sliding panel (hides/appears)
One area I think that we could use effects a bit more is with Validators. When
you have a component that is attached to a Validator and the validation fails,
right now, a red border simply appears around the component until the
appropriate condition is satisfied. Perhaps this red border could blink, or
pulse for a few seconds, that would really grab the user's attention. I've used
my own app a few times and with so many items on the screen, sometimes only one
Validator fails and it takes a few seconds to notice the red border, the
blinking/pulsing would be more obvious.
I can see myself using the Fade effect even more if we had push capabilities
available in Flex. This way, much like Outlook 2003 does, notifications could
fade in/out based on data being updated.
How about a flash effect? Like making the background of a datagrid flash for a
few seconds to grab the users attention to something? That might be interesting.
And like other people have mentioned, effects and graphs definitly help grab
the attention of management... those things are cool and everyone wants to use
something cool :)
Jimmy
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