Yeah yeah I know its old news, but hey. I got an invitation to wallop today, logged on and joined. And all I can really say is that its just fun. The biggest thing I can liken it to is using a mac. You know how you hack away on aPC at work then you jump on a mac and everythin….even the menus opening look and feel like you want to lick the screen (lol). You even feel more creative working on a mac (well at least I do). Its like that.
Heres my page http://www.wallop.com/campbell
If you would like an invite leave a comment in the comments. Its well worth looking at even for a peep if your a flash/flex dev. A nice site that still a bit buggy (it plays some of my MP3's double speed :\ ) But every time I hit my homepage I have to pull my tounge back in and get out the screen cleaner…..mmmmmm tasty web X.0 goodness. Full of vitamin flash A3 lol. Big ups to Ryan Stewart for the invite too!
You might have noticd from the past few posts I have been working on a UI for a .Net application. I got a little enthused last night and made an icon itemRenderer for the Flex Menu class. What the heck is that? Well you know in menus how you sometimes see "F2" next to a menu item, that is the shortCut key, well this class places that in the icon area of the menu :: see below.
Note also that I also made a windows style ctrl shortCut key labelRenderer aswell. When working in Visual Studio making a windows form application you typically put a "&" infront of the key to be pressed with the "ctrl" key which is the shortCut key. ie "&File" would appear in the actuall application menu as File. So in you label field in your xml or Array just put the label as "&File" or "Som&e short cut" and it will take care of the rest.
As with any release there could be bugs etc so if you find any let me know. To view the source of or download the source click the links.
Unfortunately there is nothing that I know of in flex that acts like Reflection in .Net, other wise I could convert a string into a Class. If anyone knows let me know please.
Enjoy!
