I recently worked on a project where the client was providing designs for image manipulations which were being done with a ColorTransform in flash. After a couple of bits of feedback along the lines of “…can the blues have more yellows in them at times…” I decided there must be a better way.
So I built the client a tool which allowed them to fiddle with parameters to ColorTransform and send me the numbers. It’s in the same vein as the Flex style explorer but much simpler. So simple in fact that it is hardly worth posting but I was surprised that I couldn’t find something similar on google so I thought I would save someone else the half hour it took to put together…
Click on the picture below to try it out or you can download the source here.
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Cool! Thank you . You saved much of my time. I was looking for HSL in flex. I will customize further Good work!
April 11th, 2009
Hi Padmapriya,
Glad it helps :) If you need HSL you may be interested in Mario's ColorMatrix class:
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000565.php
Cheers,
Kelvin :)
April 11th, 2009
Was wondering igf you could expound a bit on why you created a ColorTransformExplorerClass extending the Application class, instead of writing dirently into an file? Curious if I've been missing out on some technique...
Oh, an very cool little helper!
March 12th, 2010
I just prefer to keep my actionscript seperate from my mxml... I think a code behind approach is much cleaner conceptually (mxml declaratively describing layout with a separate actionscript layer underneath defining behaviour). Also, at the time I wrote this FDT (my IDE of choice) had terrible support for mxml files so I had to use a code behind to get nice code completion etc etc...
March 12th, 2010
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