Provide a Better Visual Feedback – Using Flex CursorManager
Why do you need Flex CursorManager
Flex is all about User Experience. A Rich Internet Application (RIA) is not just attractive skins or fancy animations. It also means interacting with users and helping them use your application better.
One important part of User Experience is to provide a better visual feedback. For example, when someone types a model name and clicks Search button, it might take 2-3 seconds to get results from a web service. What would a user do during that time? He or she probably keeps clicking the Search button, or thinks your application is dead.
So how to let users know what is going on with your application? You need to give them some visual feedback: like show the busy cursor when waiting for the back end response, and then remove the busy cursor when the data is ready.
To control the cursor image in Flex, you need CursorManager.
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Be the first to comment
