Hi all, Perhaps some of you gurus can help me determine the best approach for a UI that I'm thinking about. The use case will have a popup that displays detail information that is related to summary records in a DataGrid. When the user makes a grid selection, a popup will display. The popup will contain several UI components (thumbnails of panels) that each display different detail information. For instance, if the grid contained Authors, the popup might contain: Biopragraphy, Recent Books, Blog Postings, Articles, etc.. Some of the components will contain static text, while others will contain lists (DataGrids) or images.
Now for the fun part. When the user clicks on (or MouseOver) the thumbnail, the component will expand (zoom with effect) to the full size of the popup and cover the other thumbnails. When the user clicks again (or MouseOut) the popup will return to the initial thumbnail state (using Cairngorm). My thoughts are to capture BitmapData of the individual panel components and display them as the thumbnails in the initial popup state. When the user clicks a thumbnail, change state with zoom effect and replace the image with the actual component. If this is possible, does anyone have any ideas how I might go about accomplishing this idea? In other words, is it possible to capture the BitmapData of a component without displaying the component; just the image? Also, when the thumbnail zoom completes, how might I swap the image with the actual component? I'm pretty sure that there is something similar to an EFFECT_END event that I could use to change state a second time. But, I'm interested to hear different perspectives. Since Flex will soon be competing with Windows Vista and WPF, I'm trying to develop innovative UI's that will rival the competition. I would appreciate any ideas anyone might have for this scenario. Or, if someone has done something similar, I would love to see the code. Thank you very much in advance, Tim Hoff -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
