Author Archives: keith

Minimal List

Posted on March 22, 2010 by keith

I’m on a roll! [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/List.swf” width=”120″ height=”220″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed] Now that we have a scroll bar, making a List was not all that hard. Here you can see a generic list with 1000 items. The default item … Continue reading →

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Minimal Charts!

Posted on March 19, 2010 by keith

I have an idea in mind for an app. It needs charts. Therefore, we now have minimal charts. First is the Bar Chart and Line Chart: [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/BarAndLineCharts.swf” width=”250″ height=”250″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed] And then the Pie Chart: [kml_flashembed … Continue reading →

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Minimal Comps: Now with ScrollBars!

Posted on March 14, 2010 by keith

Yes, I finally got off my butt and made a minimal scroll bar. And a scrolling TextArea to boot. It’s in the version 0.101 SWC / source, or just update SVN. http://www.minimalcomps.com The new components are VScrollBar, HScrollBar and TextArea. … Continue reading →

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Skinning Minimal Comps

Posted on March 7, 2010 by keith

A lot of people have asked, and continue to ask how to skin minimal comps. Short story, long story, what you can do. Short story: you can’t. Long story: Minimal Comps were designed to be minimal. Mostly for use in … Continue reading →

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Minimal Accordion and lots of fixes

Posted on March 4, 2010 by keith

I just added a new MInimal Component: an Accordion. It’s pretty similar to what you see here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2313, i.e. a VBox with Windows, but I made into it’s own class with a few nice touches. A new Accordion starts with … Continue reading →

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Announcing www.minimalcomps.com

Posted on March 3, 2010 by keith

This is long overdue. Minimal Comps have been a sort of side project of mine, and have various posts here related to them, but enough people are using them and apparently liking them, that it seemed they deserved a home … Continue reading →

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Minimal Comp Examples?

Posted on March 3, 2010 by keith

Do you use Minimal Comps? I would love to get a list of sites and apps that feature them. Even if it’s just an experiment or proof of concept type example. Leave links in the comments or email me at … Continue reading →

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Minimal Calendar

Posted on February 28, 2010 by keith

I’m doing a personal project with my Minimal Components and I needed a calendar. So I made one. [kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Playground.swf” width=”200″ height=”180″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed] It’s in version 0.98 here: http://code.google.com/p/minimalcomps/. This release also fixes a couple of bugs … Continue reading →

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Oh yay, hacked again.

Posted on February 11, 2010 by keith

Someone just pointed out that I had an offscreen div with about a jillion spam links. Uploaded a new WordPress install. No luck. Changed the theme, that seemed to do it. Looks like I’m in the market for a new … Continue reading →

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Check your Flash!

Posted on February 8, 2010 by keith

Do you make Flash content? Do you have Flash content on the web? If so, you owe it to yourself and your clients to check this content against the upcoming version 10.1 beta player. There’s lots of new goodies in … Continue reading →

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