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Flash IDE Inspired Flex 4 Timeline Component

Here’s a little demo of a Flex 4 component i wrote that displays a Flash IDE-like timeline for any SWF you load into it. The timeline data is reconstructed by as3swf (i discuss how that works in a previous blog post, SWF Timeline Reconstruction with as3swf). The timeline is not interactive in this demo, and only the root timeline is shown.

This movie requires Flash Player 10

The component is a subclassed Spark List with a custom virtual layout and item renderer, capable of rendering SWF timelines with a lot of frames/layers in a high performance and memory efficient way.

I have no plans to publish the source code anytime soon, but in case you are interested in using this or anything related in your own projects, please feel free to contact me for licensing/consulting.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 30th, 2010 at 15:45 and is filed under Air, AS3, Flash, Flex 4, SWF, WebDev. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Flash IDE Inspired Flex 4 Timeline Component”

  1. Deevjee Says:
    November 9th, 2010 at 17:01

    Respect, very good.

    keep it up

  2. Markus Says:
    February 25th, 2011 at 06:12

    Very nice component. I`m interested in the source code. Maybe you can send it to markus_gritsch@gmx.de .

  3. Ty Says:
    April 17th, 2011 at 16:08

    Been working on a timeline component inside of Flex for a little while now, more for a generic approach on placing assets in a time based fashion, interested in seeing your source?

  4. Claus Wahlers Says:
    April 18th, 2011 at 10:31

    @ty mine is not generic at all – very specific to simulating the Flash IDE timeline, so it probably won’t help you anyways (i still have no plans to release the sources)

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