I recently published Flex custom components allowing to display data as Sparklines. These SparklineChart custom components being highly configurable, here is now their new companion: the SparklineChart explorer.

Sparklines are defined by Edward Tufte, their creator as: Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics.

Here are new Flex custom components allowing to easily integrate Sparklines in any Flex application.

After my custom components FadingTextInput and FadingInjector, here is now a Flex custom effect offering similar possibilities. I called it EditInPlaceEffect.

Apply the fading background color effect available in my Flex FadingTextInput in any UIComponent by injecting it using FadingInjector (post updated following a comment from João).

FadingTextInput is a Flex custom component based on TextInput that provides a background color fading effect when its content is modified.

As I plan to publish several flex examples on this blog, I decided to start with the component you’ll probably see the most: the preloader!

You should already know very well the default Flex preloader since most of the available samples that can be found on blogs are still using it. To be honest, I was surprised that so many bloggers had no beautiful preloaders since I thought it would take me a few minutes to create my own. Hum… was I a little bit too optimistic? It took me much more!