Comments on: Flex based Mazda used car locator

By: David Beale

David Beale — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:53:54 +0000

Yep that display issue is known to us. It is caused by the combination of a bug in the Flex SDK and the way we had to create the custom effects for the list box.

@Fred
Cheers mate – The skining is both CSS, Bitmap and Flash assets. It was a lot of work, probably about 30% of total build time!

By: Matthew Platte

Matthew Platte — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:38:05 +0000

I saw the disappearing scroll bar too. OSX Tiger, 10.something player.

I really like the transition when sorting the list. (I’m one of those look! shiny! people at heart! Overall it looks and works well. I didn’t explore a lot so missed many of the details that a real customer would use.

Might want to add a ‘spinner’ for when the photo/slideshow is loading up.

Good work!

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:42:36 +0000

Great app! I’m actually looking out for a car, so have had a chance to use the locator ‘for real’, and found it easy to use, no confusion at all! There was one tiny issue with the list based controls, which would show a vertical scroll bar, which would then dissappear when I clicked it to scroll down (I’m running 10,0,22,87 of debug player on OSX).

One question – did you have to re-skin all of the components, or could you achieve the visual effect purely by using styles? (or both?).