Comments on: Reflection Manager 1.0

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The Blogagic Flex Explorer Collection (Component, Style, Effect) | Blogagic — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:00:16 +0000

[...] Flex Reflection Explorer (from Wietse Veenstra blog) demonstrates beautiful reflection effects using the ReflectionManager provided [...]

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:33:14 +0000

Hi,

nice Component! But i recommend to make the distance a property of the manager instead of “hoping” the parent has a distance property! (Just as Kerkness already pointed out.)
Further i noticed reflexions vanishing if i resize the browser window. This is due to the “Removed_From_Stage” event handling. There is no “Added_To_Stage” event handling – adding one fixed this for me.
(This new event handler contains just “_target.parent.addChild(this);”)

Thx again for this nice component

Greetings, Kai

By: Valer

Valer — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:28:14 +0000

I have an update to my post #25. It appears that the flickering is related to my use of data grids and advanced data grids and maybe the fact that they have custom render controls like buttons & combo boxes. It is also a timing issue, I could trace and see that in some cases when i move the mouse over a button, combo box control or a line in the grid, the flicker happens and at that time the reflection manager keeps redrawing the bitmap over and over again. It’s like a race condition between the update of my control and the reflection.
First I tried to fix this by using callLater when redrawing the reflection bitmap. It helped a bit, it stabilized the buttons and the combo boxes, but the flickering still happened for the highlighted line of the grids. So, the second fix was to reject the reflection update if it happens in a very short interval after the last reflection update. I set that interval to 500 ms. This solved the issues for now and I am not too concern about the reflection being out of sync with the controls for a short period of time

By: sanjay vekaria

sanjay vekaria — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:36:33 +0000

Awesome reflection and superpanel… Thanks so much for sharing the code. Really impressive.

By: Vinicius Olivera

Vinicius Olivera — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:25:01 +0000

Can I use this class in flash cs3 ???

http://fukhaos.com

By: Valer

Valer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:14:16 +0000

I am using the reflection component for an app that gathers data from the user and I noticed the following bug in the app. Sometimes with the reflection enabled, the controls like buttons or combo boxes keep flickering when the mouse is over them and I cannot open the combo box drop down. When I click on the combo box to open the drop down, it shows up for a second and immediately is hidden. This doesn’t happen always, and so far I couldn’t link it to any event or app state.

Has anyone see this behavior or knows of any hints?

Thanks,
Valer

By: Kyle Burke

Kyle Burke — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:59:40 +0000

http://www.wietseveenstra.nl/files/flex/ReflectionExplorer/v1_0/ReflectionExplorer.html

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:31:22 +0000

I wish I could see something -is there a demo anywhere on this page?

By: DeepVoid

DeepVoid — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:43:01 +0000

I apply the reflection effect to a normal panel I use as a login panel. If I switch to another state and then come back to the login state (in case of login failure, for example), the reflection is gone. How to re-enable it? Pardon me, I’m a flex noob…

By: Rafael Biz

Rafael Biz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:39:14 +0000

I fixed the distance bug but i still cant get a Label or the label for a Button to be reflected! Could someone help me?

Great Joob!!!