Recreating Ely’s Flex 4 List Component Series: Part 3 – Adding Transitions

August 23rd, 2008 by

In Part 2 we added hovered and selected states to the ItemRenderer for the list items. In this part we’ll add some transitions to make the list look more like an Accordion. Since screenshots won’t do the example justice this time, I’ll show a screencast I made demonstrating the result first:

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Recreating Ely’s Flex 4 List Component Series: Part 2

August 19th, 2008 by

In Part 1 of this series we learned how to create an ItemRenderer for a List in Flex 4. I wanted to get through 2 steps tonight, but only have the code for the next step finished. This code creates the item renderer seen at ~4:20 of Ely’s video.

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