Like Alex mentioned, this will be something you'll be able to do in Flex 3. I've done it using the Flex Component Kit, Flash CS3 and Flex 3 to replicate what George Comninos demoed at 360Flex:
http://www.colettas.org/?p=150 http://cruxy.com/stores/pubstoreDetailVideo.jsp?id=11450 It was pretty easy to do. Also, I hate to keep blowing smoke, but Degrafa will eventually have the ability to do that pretty easily. We'll see if it gets into the initial beta launch in the next couple months. Here's some info: http://www.degrafa.com/ If you find a solution beyond these, I'd like to hear. Juan scalenine.com degrafa.com --- In [email protected], "Troy Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if the transition is just a simple fade from one skin to the > > next. Does that make things any easier? The Button class has a > > transitions property, so why can't that be leveraged? > > As Alex mentioned, the transitions property won't help you. > > But, if all you want is a simple fade from one skin to the next that > *does* make things a bit easier to implement. You still have to > implement a custom skin, one in which you have the giant switch > statement selecting the skin based on whether its "up" "down" "over" > etc. Just google some tutorials on programmatic skins and you should > find some good examples (one in particular uses a radial gauge as an > example). > > Once you have your programmatic skin doing basic switching between > states, you then just modify your giant switch statement so that when > the skin changes you start a timer that fades out the current skin and > fades in the new skin (or use an animation library). > > Troy. >
