Category Archives: Components

MinimalComps Fixes

Posted on March 25, 2010 by keith

As I mentioned the other day, I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks addressing any bugs or enhancements to the components. In the last few days, here are some of the things I’ve added and fixed: – exposed … Continue reading →

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And finally, Minimal ComboBox

Posted on March 23, 2010 by keith

[kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.0″ movie=”http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ComboBox.swf” width=”120″ height=”200″ targetclass=”flashmovie”] [/kml_flashembed] Has most of the same properties / methods as List. And adds: openPosition – “top”, “bottom”, or ComboBox.TOP, ComboBox.BOTTOM. Defaults to bottom. defaultLabel – what shows if nothing is selected. Default to … Continue reading →

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Font issue in MinimalComps

Posted on March 22, 2010 by keith

It was brought to my attention today that there was a possible issue in the MinimalComps regarding font embedding. If you were to compile the component source with the Flex 4 SDK, no labels on any components would show up. … Continue reading →

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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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