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
Creating a Web Service Powered Flex Application in One Minute
This post belongs to the ‘How to Consume Web Services in Adobe Flex‘ series which provides tutorials and tips for Flex developers who want to access server-side data though Flex WebService. Read the introduction page here.
Your Key to the World of Web Services – Flex WebService
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Comments: 18
How to Consume Web Services in Adobe Flex
Help! My Flex application is cool, but where are the data from?
You spend quit a lot of time building your Flex application with nice layout, fancy panels, and cool animations. Then all of a sudden, you realize one thing is missing:
Where and How to get the server-side data for my Flex application?
It feels like you have just got a most powerful cannon, but no ammunition to fire.
Using Adobe Flex as a front-end RIA tool, many people are familiar with common Flex components like Panel, HBox, or TileList. However, when coming to the topic like How to Consume Web Services in Adobe Flex, you might encounter some challenges including:
Posted by: Bryan Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Comments: 4
