Flex SuperPanel
March 22nd, 2007
<– there is an update of the SuperPanel which can be found overhere –>
I really like to work with the Panel component in my Flex projects, but it lacks some functionality I use quite often so I extended it which resulted in the SuperPanel component. The SuperPanel can be dragged around on the stage, it can be closed, collapsed and resized. I have some additional updates planned but I wouldn’t want to keep this from you so here is the first version. I hope it will be of some good use to you.
View the demo here (right click to view source).
View the source here.
Future updates:
- Different header color for focused panel.
- Click to content area to focus panel.
- Doubleclick on header to collapse the panel.
- Minimize to the bottom of the stage.
If you find any bugs or have any other suggestions, please let me know.
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Very nice Wietse!
Great work!!! You got skills my little grasshopper. I noticed that the drag is still functional when you click the minimize/maximize button.
Very Cool!!
Good job on the SuperPanel man, thumbs up! I’m already looking forward to having to use it somewhere
You might wanna think about getting some asdoc-comments in there though..
Cheers man.
Thnx for the good comments all:) I will certainly keep updating this component so thnx for the advice.
This is really great work man, your Flex skills are getting pretty good !! Keep it up!
If youre looking for a way to minimize to the bottom of the stage… see if this method looks good to you
http://blog.3r1c.net/?p=50
if it does I’d be glad to contribute to this component!
nice panel,
thanks for your knowledge!
Thanks Eric for the tip! I’m currently working on more functionalities and further improvements and I will certainly take your tip in consideration. I will let you know the outcome.
Equintano, thanks for your comment. I checked out your blog but I don’t speak spanish so it’s a little hard to know what it exactly is about.
Wow! Very similar ideas…. I really like your subtle animation effects (mine doesn’t have that… yet)… I was modding the one I found on the Adobe Blog and then after I got done doing some mods…. I saw your comments and it led me here…. Now I am back to modding after seeing the extra stuff you put in it.
You should post this to the Flex Box. That is usually where I get my components…. this would’a saved me some time just using and modding yours… Keep up the good the good work!
Very cool component. Keep up good work! I modified this one to extend TitleWindow and removed the drag-drop listeners since TitleWindow already comes with such functionality. But there were only few modifications I had to do.
I saw a lot of idears.. this is creating potential. I was wondering if you could add the following items to your wishlist:
- maximize to full screen
- Horizontal and Vertical Tiling of the windows
- Maybe Cascade:?
Is a widget like on http://www.netvibes.com an option to create?
milo,
thanks for your recommendations. I will certainly put them on my todo list for this component. I will have some time to work on the component again soon so keep checking for updates. thanks!
in the style sheet, mininimizeButton.png doesn’t exist so create one or rename it to drecreaseButton.png and it should work out of the box.
Hi,
When i add a ComboBox to the Panel then i won’t be able to view the List of Items in it as the Panel is consuming the MouseClick Event..
Do i need to check for the Event Target in the panelClickHandler() ..
But i am not sure what other problems it might pose..
Thanks
Sateesh
Sateesh,
The combobox and datefields will work only if you longpress the buttons. This needs to be addressed.
This is a great component!!
so thank you first of all…
i have a little problem (bug?)!!
when i aply a resize effect to the superPanel the bottons and resize corner dont move!!
is there a way to make this work ??
tnx
Great work! Just the exemple I was looking for!
Congratulations.
Great component – thank you.
Is there a way to make the panel modal – via a property, perhaps? I did not see one, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
great work….i have a question…but first let me tell you that i am new to flex….i have a panel…and my mxml file name is media.mxml…so can i apply the properties of your superpanel by only including your action script file SuperPanel.as…without modifying the mxml file….if so how??plz give me some idea…thanks
So I noticed this component won’t work anywhere unless its in the main application. You have “Application.application.parent” hardcoded through your SuperPanel class. What if someone wanted to use this sub-component?