MACROMEDIA FLEX-GETTING STARTED WITH FLEX Uživatelský manuál stáhnout pdf (Strana 117)

CHAPTER 7

Advanced Flex Controls

As we already discussed, Flex has a lot of great controls baked

right

into it, including a chart control, an advanced grid con-

trol, accordions, layout managers, and a full set of basic con-

trols. But even all of these might not satisfy your requirements.

The good news is that there is a thriving community of open

source and commercial groups building great components for

Flex applications. This means you can build amazing applica-

tions without spending your time writing controls. This chap-

ter provides a brief tour of some of these off-the-shelf controls.

ILOG Elixir

ILOG Visualization Products has developed a set of extremely

powerful data visualization controls designed specifically for

Flex. The ILOG Elixir toolkit (http://www.ilog.com/products/

elixir/) contains a complete set of 2D and 3D graph types, all

of which allow you to create effects-based transitions that will

make you look like a superstar. Included in the toolkit are

ready-to-use schedule displays, map displays, dials, gauges, 3D

and radar charts, Gantt charts, a treemap chart, and organiza-

tion charts.

Figure 7-1 shows a 3D graph built using ILOG Elixir.

You can use the Flex controls on the right to adjust the ILOG

graph to your taste. Source code is provided so that you can

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