TileUI Flex simulated desktop.

23 October 2007, 22:04, by Jon

I was pleased to hear the announcement that Doug McCune will be writing the upcoming Flex 3 for Dummies with Deepa Subramaniam. I am looking forward to seeing this early next year. What I am most excited about however, is that Doug has posted a sneak peek of his excellent TileUI Flex App to promote his announcement.

 

Doug McCune’s TileUI.

Doug was interviewed about this on the Flex.org Podcast In which I believe he stated that he made use of Papervision3D combined with APE.

You can easily group items, by holding down the left-mouse button and dragging around the items you want to group. By default these stack but when you hold the mouse button down to group a blue circle appears, if you return here and hover with the mouse button still down, you get the menu shown above, where you can then spiral the stack, or arrange them in a messy formation.

Once items are stacked, you can double click them for further options, but I’ll let you play and discover these yourselves.

I believe Doug based this on an another application, details of which are in the interview in the Flex.org Podcast

Thanks for the demo Doug.

Jon

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