New Dashboard Sample by Flexicious!

The Flexicious Dashboard Platform is a new product from Flexicious that empowers RIA developers to provide feature rich, expressive, highly customizable, and deeply engaging dashboard experience to their users. It provides you with a lot of the base functionality that is standard in dashboard applications, in addition to a number of highly productive features that is sure to WOW your customers.

Right out of the box, you get: A container for your dashboard that provides:

• Support for configurable layout of dashlets, and provision for users to move and resize dashlets, integrated with preference persistence so dashboard loads exactly how the user left it.
• Ability to organize dashlets in zones. Ability to drag and drop dashlets between zones, again with preference persistence mechanism.
• Ability to Print Preview and Print the dashboard or a single dashlet
• Ability to export the Dashboard to PDF
• Ability for your users to save the current view of the dashboard via preferences
• Ability Show/Hide Dashlets, control which dashlets appear where and at what size.
• An auto refresh mechanism
• Ability to control dashlet operations including:
• Move dashlets via a convenient drag and drop
• Resize dashlets
• Expand/Collapse Dashlets
• Open/Close Dashlets
• Maximize/Minimize Dashlets
• Loading Animation
• Based on the Spark skinning model, provides the ability to completely skin the look and feel of the dashboard as well as the dashlets.
• A number of professional, excellent looking built in skins

LOCATION: Data Visualization > Flexicious

New and Updated MapQuest Samples!

MapQuest has updated their Flex Tools APIs and provided more than 60 great samples! Be sure to check them out.

LOCATION: Mapping > MapQuest Maps

Flexicious Spark DataGrid!

Flexicious Spark DataGrid is an extension to the Flex Spark DataGrid that adds support for Inline Filters, Summary Footers, Fully Customizable Server/Client Paging, DataGrid Print, Print Preview & PDF generation using Alive PDF Integration, Excel/Word/HTML/XML Export, User Settings Persistence and a lot more!

LOCATION: Other Components > DataGrid Extensions > Flexicious Datagrid

Flex 4.6 is out and here are samples!!

Flex 4.6 has just been released and Holly Schinsky has created samples highlighting some of the new components:

• Callout
• CalloutButton
• DateSpinner
• SoftKeyboardOptions
• SpinnerList
• SplitViewNavigator
• ToggleSwitch

LOCATION: Flex 4.6 (**NEW**)

KeepCore has 4 New Components!

KeepCore has added 4 new components to their Flex-Components offering. The new components:

• KC-TimePicker*
• KC-DualSlider*
• KC-TextArea
• KC-ZoomManager

*Includes mobile version as well

LOCATION: Components > KeepCore

Flex Calendar Component version 1.2.0 Released!

Version 1.2.0 of the Flex Calendar Component has been released. Some of the new features include:

• Support for Design View in Flash Builder 4
• New way of skinning components
• Added new built-in style called "Modern"
• Added tooltip property for itemRenderers
• Many more...

Read more about the new features.

LOCATION: Data Visualization > UniSalveo

KeepCore updates KC Calendar sample!

KeepCore has updated their KC Calendar component to version 1.6. It is now fully customizable. Be sure to check it out!

LOCATION: Data Visualization > KeepCore

New Sparklines Sample by IBM ILOG

Be sure to check out the Sparklines charts components example by IBM ILOG. The Sparklines component is a charting tool that allows you to control the frequency and amplitude of generated requests and many other dynamic functions.

LOCATION: Data Visualization > IBM ILOG

Fisheye Sample for Flex 4 and 4.5!

Simone Pascucci of Karsim IT Solutions has updated Ely Greenfield's Fisheye sample to work with Flex 4 and 4.5.

LOCATION: Other Components > Layouts

New amCharts and updated amMap samples!

Be sure to check out the new amCharts sample that highlights the new Stock Chart application for building complex statistical systems in a variety of visual formats. Also now available are updated amMap samples. Both amCharts and amMap are available for Flex Builder 3 and Flash Builder 4.

LOCATION: Data Visualization > amCharts and Mapping > amMap

Rotten Tomatoes Served Here!

Jonathan Campos has submitted a movie search example to Tour de Flex, which highlights his new Rotten Tomatoes component. Be sure to check it out!

LOCATION: Cloud APIs

Klovis - Kap IT Libraries

Be sure to check out the 18 new samples highlighting Kap IT's Klovis open-source libraries. These samples highlight the Spark user interface components compatible with the latest Flex SDK (4.5.1). Some of the samples highlight AutoComplete, DataFiltering, Login, DataGrid, StringTokenizer and more!

LOCATION: Other Components > Klovis

28 New and Updated Mobile Samples for Flex 4.5!

Holly Schinsky has created 28 new and updated mobile samples for the Flex 4.5 framework. You can read more about several of these on her blog. Here are some of the samples included:

• Alert View - see how to do this in 4.5!
• Camera Functions - checkout how to leverage functionality from your device's camera such as accessing the raw camera, UI capture and accessing the camera roll
• Context Menu - custom popup menu for the device
• Transition Effects - CrossFadeViewTransition, FlipViewTransition, SlideViewTransition, ZoomViewTransition
• CSS Filtering - see how to apply style based on a target OS or DPI
• Geolocation - display current location in latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates
• Gesture - rotate, zoom and swipe images using gesture-supported devices
• Multi-DPI Bitmap Handling - provide list of bitmaps for various runtime densities (DPI)
• SkinnablePopupContainer - create skinnable pop-up to be used as a simple window, alert, etc.
• ViewMenu - create menu to popup when user presses the device menu button
• Many More!!!

LOCATION: Flex Mobile (**NEW**) > Mobile Sample Applications

New and Updated ArcGIS API Mapping Samples

ESRI, Inc. has submitted new and updated samples that highlight their ArcGIS API for Flex. Be sure to check out these examples and find out more about how you can build simple or sophisticated mapping applications that work with ArcGIS Server 9.3 and above.

New samples include:

• Population Density - highlights using layers for items such as basemap, demographics and boundaries
• Elevation Profile - highlights how to manage mapping lines to calculate elevation profiles and perform geoprocessing

Updated samples include:

• Sample Flex View - highlights ESRI, Inc.'s ready-to-deploy and configurable viewer application
• Pizza Store Locator - highlights how to combine multiple REST services to solve business problems

LOCATION: Mapping > ESRI ArcGIS

Upgraded Gantt4Flex Component

The new version of Gantt4Flex library (http://www.gantt4flex.com) - 1.1.0 - contains a lot of enhancements. A new sample application was added and the existing ones have been updated. Among the new features:

• Context menu for Gantt segments
• Z-index for Gantt segments
• Graphical tool for easy creation of Gantt segments
• Pan scrolling (moving the diagram with a "hand" tool)
• Printing of the diagram
• Export as PDF and image
• Customize snap to grid units independently of timelines
• Customize status bar text
• Drag & drop segments on vertical axis
• Many API improvements

LOCATION: Data Visualization > Gantt4Flex from Flower Platform

The New and Improved Flex.org!

We recently updated Flex.org - check it out!

Facts about Flex.org:

• Flex.org is managed by the Adobe Platform Evangelism Team so it's a bit less formal than the typical Adobe sites.


• It is a great first stop for anyone interesting in seeing what Flex is about.  It has very good introductory content about all things Flex related.  In other words, it "evangelizes" Flex. ;-)  If you want to introduce a coworker or friend to Flex, send them to the site.


• The new site has links to tutorials, technical articles and mobile specific articles - this type of content did not exist in the previous versions of Flex.org.  I think you will find that the content changes much more frequently than the previous site.


• Many of the articles are simply syndicated from our various blogs, Adobe Developer Connection, Adobe TV, the Flex Team blog and any other content that we feel is relevant and useful.


• The entire site has an RSS feed at http://flex.org/feed so go subscribe!  The individual sections have RSS feeds as well - just add "/feed" to the URL.


• The Flex showcase is still the same as before and has lots of great reference sites.  We will be adding mobile showcase items soon.  Be sure you follow http://twitter.com/flexshowcase.  We are always looking for new submissions to the Flex.org showcase.

New Layout Samples by FlexLayouts.org

We have uploaded some excellent new Layout samples from FlexLayouts, which showcase this powerful, reusable, and portable feature available in Flex 4.

The samples include:

• Circle
• Clock Face
• Flow
• Horizontal
• Monopoly Board
• Rectangle
• Snake
• Tile
• Vertical

LOCATION: Other Components > Layouts

New and Updated Samples by Kap IT Lab

Be sure to check out the new and updated Data Visualization samples by Kap IT Lab. These samples highlight their Kalileo product which demonstrates multi-layout visualization components for Adobe Flex and AIR.

These samples take an innovative approach to multi-dimensional data visualization. The samples include:

• Diagramming
• Network
• BPM
• Social Network
• Radar Chart
• Tree Map
• Elastic Search
• Ring Chart

LOCATION: Data Visualization > Kap IT Lab

Spark Globalization Samples!

Be sure to check out Tour de Flex now that the Adobe China team has submitted 15 Globalization samples using the Spark framework. These samples highlight the following new classes integrated in Flex SDK 4.5:

• spark.formatters package ( DateTimeFormatter, NumberFormatter, CurrencyFormatter )
• spark.globalization package ( SortingCollator, MatchingCollator, StringTools )
• spark.validators package ( NumberValidator and CurrencyValidator )
• spark.collections.Sort and spark.collections.SortField

LOCATION: Flex 4.5 Preview > Globalization

9 NEW Data Services Samples Added

David Flatley has added 9 new data services samples to Tour de Flex. The following samples have been added to the Flex Data Access > Messaging category:

• Adaptive Client message frequency - Advanced data throttling feature
• Async Message Filtering - Custom message filter classes to pre-process incoming messages and more
• Basic Authentication with Tomcat - uses the browser to invoke the login
• Custom Authentication - uses Flex for the login fields
• Client-level Data Throttling - enable the maxFrequency property of a client-side Consumer, MultiTopicConsumer, or DataService component
• Destination-level Data Throttling - specify client-to-server and server-to-client message frequency limits
• Reliable Messaging - with unreliable destination side by side

The following samples have been added to the Flex Data Access > RemoteObject category:

• Flex/Spring Remoting - Access Java server-side objects (or beans)
• Flex/Spring Security - Authenticate user access to Java server-side objects

LOCATION: Flex Data Access > Messaging Service