Yes, that's an oversight... our components shouldn't be hard-coding RGB colors. I've asked for it to be logged in our bugbase.
- Gordon ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Styling in Flex is officially ridiculous Annoying I can see, and so I apologize for that. My title was definitely borne out of significant frustration and should have been more factual. I also agree that most of Flex's CSS implementation is pretty cool. Gordon, in the spirit of making pain points known, here is one that looks like it was simply an oversight: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/56469 <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/56469> Ben --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only thing that annoyed me about Ben's complaint was the hyperbole > of his subject line, "Styling in Flex is officially ridiculous". (My own > not-so-humble opinion is that Flex's use of CSS styles is pretty cool.) > > > > I agree with him that it would be nice if ButtonSkin were more > styleable. More importantly, we need to hear about the cases where > developers think Flex makes something too difficult, because he's right > that it's the only way to get mass adoption. That doesn't mean our team > will address every one of them, due to competing priorities and > judgments about how many other developers are likely to have the same > complaint. (I'm not aware of many requests for borderless buttons before > Ben's.) But if we don't know about your pain points, we aren't likely to > make them go away. > > > > - Gordon > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of ben.clinkinbeard > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:29 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Styling in Flex is officially ridiculous > > > > I must say, I really don't understand how I am being offensive. If you > took issue with my hypothetical new developer conversation, well, you > shouldn't. I was merely trying to point out that your solution is a > complex one, and requiring these types of workarounds does not > encourage the very important drive towards Flex adoption by new > developers. I was also very clear to state that I have immense respect > for Adobe, and did not call them 'teh suck' or anything similar. I am > trying to draw attention to something that I feel needs to be > addressed in order to improve the Flex framework. > > I think EECOLOR summed up my thoughts pretty well by pointing out that > lots of other things are done with getStyle() and it sure would have > been nice to make border one of those things. > > Roger, thanks for the XP theme link, I had not seen that before. > > Ben > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > , "Michael Schmalle" > <teoti.graphix@> wrote: > > > > EDIT :: > > > > > In a way, the Button does have a borderStyle, it's the button's name > > property. > > > > supposed to be > > > > In a way, the ButtonSkin class does have a borderStyle, it's the > button > > skin's name property assigned in the Button class. > > > > Peace, Mike > > > > On 11/30/06, Michael Schmalle <teoti.graphix@> wrote: > > > > > > > the border style > > > > > > In a way, the Button does have a borderStyle, it's the button's name > > > property. > > > > > > Back in Flash, they used borderStyle in the Button but, in Flex2 > to they > > > changed it to switch on the buttons name. > > > > > > Anyway, I will write a skin class and put it on my blog. That will > be my > > > contribution to the 'new' devs that I 'wasn't' talking to. :) > > > > > > PS, I have heard plenty of people bitch about the HaloBorders class > to > > > but, hey unfortunately beginners in ALL of life do not have access > to those > > > things experience gives. > > > > > > Peace, Mike > > > > > > On 11/30/06, EECOLOR <eecolor@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I have to agree with the dude, that its tough to say something > like > > > > that to a new person at flex. However, i was thinking the other > comments > > > > were correct, and that if you wanted the the button to look > something else, > > > > you'd have to use another skin. However, is you want to change > the border > > > > from color, you change the 'borderColor' style, if you want to > change the > > > > fill colors, you change 'fillColors'. At the top of > updateDisplayList within > > > > the ButtonSkin class you see this code: > > > > > > > > // User-defined styles. > > > > var borderColor:uint = getStyle("borderColor"); > > > > var cornerRadius:Number = getStyle("cornerRadius"); > > > > var fillAlphas:Array = getStyle("fillAlphas"); > > > > var fillColors:Array = getStyle("fillColors"); > > > > StyleManager.getColorNames(fillColors); > > > > var highlightAlphas:Array = getStyle("highlightAlphas"); > > > > var themeColor:uint = getStyle("themeColor"); > > > > > > > > It would have been nice indeed to have the border style thingy > in it. > > > > Instead of bitching about the fact that Adobe did not put it in > (we all > > > > forget something eventually) i'd recommend you to write a class > that has > > > > that border style thingy in it and then share it with us so we > can all use > > > > that skin. > > > > > > > > > > > > Greetz Erik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Teoti Graphix > > > http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> <http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> > > > > > > > Blog - Flex2Components > > > http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> <http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> > > > > > > > You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the > question'. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Teoti Graphix > > http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> <http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> > > > > > Blog - Flex2Components > > http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> <http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> > > > > > You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the > question'. > > >
