degrafa

Flex has always supported some level of CSS, which allows you to externalize styling elements and repurpose them throughout an application. However a few features have always been lacking from the standard Flex skins. With the public beta release of Degrafa on January 1st, we’re going to be raising the bar for CSS support in Rich Internet Applications, and the features we’re showing today are only the beginning. Degrafa isn’t just MXML and ActionScript anymore!

Want to see this example in action? Try it out for yourself: Degrafa CSS Example

Here’s a quick demo showing how you can use SVG path data to draw shapes in Flex via Degrafa. I know it’s a bit hard to see the code because of the video size, but you can at least get a general sense of what’s going on.

What I’m going through here is a pretty manual process that were going to try to eliminate with some import/export and visual tool sets. You can see a slightly larger video here.