I've been looking in to Alex Uhlmann's DistortionEffects library (http://weblogs.macromedia.com/auhlmann/archives/2006/11/download_distor.cfm) and I'm trying to figure out how to implement these effects in to an existing application.
Essentially, here's my problem: We have an existing application with a dashboard. Within that dashboard are Widgets. Widgets are an extension of DragPanel (extension of TitleWindows) that are the children of a Canvas. I chose to implement my own drag/drop functionality with TitleWindows so that I could restrict dragging to the Canvas area. Each Widget has a front (main UI) and a back (configuration). Currently I am using states and simple transitions to go back and forth between the two views of a Widget. My end goal is to use a Flip effect (available in the DistortionEffect library) to flip the widgets over to configure them, just like an OS X dashboard widget. All of the examples on Alex's site seem to make use of two or more Panels within a ViewStack to accomplish the flipping effect. Can anybody think of a way to implement the desired effect without completely changing my Widget architecture? My next step might be to try to make a draggable ViewStack container if I can't figure out another option. Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks, Brian Dunphy
