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Ted Casey

Ted Casey

Macromedia

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. When to Use Styles
  3. Recrafting Basic Components with Skins
Created:
22 August 2005
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Flex

Using Styles and Skins to Brand Your Flex 1.5 Application

Rich Internet Application (RIA) development is only complete when it successfully incorporates the design, experience, and branding your client desires and your users expect. Macromedia Flex can fulfill your RIA requirements by providing a styling and skinning architecture out of the box. It gives you the tools you need to develop a desired look and feel. Knowing when to use styles and when to use skins can help make your design process more efficient and reduce your delivery time.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Flex 1.5

Fireworks MX 2004

Flash MX 2004

Tutorials and sample files:

This ZIP file contains the FLA, SWC, MXML, and image files for this tutorial.

Prerequisite knowledge:

You should have a good working knowledge of Flex and Flash, and a basic knowledge of Fireworks.

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About the author

Ted Casey is a quality assurance engineer on the Flex team. He has worked at Macromedia for almost seven years. Prior to working on Flex, he worked on Flash and FreeHand, among other projects.