UIComponent and focus tabbing on children

Posted by Christophe Jolif on July 4th, 2008

When coding composite components for a Flex application you usually extend a Container subclass and get focus tabbing for free on the children.

However when creating a reusable component, you sometimes want to avoid extending Container so that users are well aware…

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ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview program starts!

Posted by Erwan Paccard on July 3rd, 2008

We are pleased to start the ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview program.

We now have a new collaborative web section we will enrich over time and update with installers on a  regular basis. As this is the first drops, features and APIs…

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Another custom gauge: The Thermometer class

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on July 2nd, 2008

After the blinking circular gauge, the partition gauge and light ramp gauges, here is another example of a gauge built with ILOG Elixir Gauges framework.

This gauge is defined as an MXML component:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RectangularGauge…

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Getting more from OLAP queries in Flex (1)

Posted by Christophe Jolif on June 4th, 2008

Flex Builder Pro and the Data Visualization library that comes with it contains an OLAP engine and an API to query it and get results to be displayed in a particular implementation of the AdvancedDataGrid known as the OLAPDataGrid. Before looking at…

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Making overlapping tasks stand out

Posted by Frédéric Leroy on June 2nd, 2008

Sometimes tasks are overlapping in your Gantt application and you would like users to be aware of the condition so they can react to it. This post is a continuation and rework of a previous post on the ILOG Elixir forum.…

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ILOG Elixir first patch is out

Posted by Erwan Paccard on June 2nd, 2008

ILOG Elixir 1.0 patch 1 is now available from here (it is meant to be installed on top of ILOG Elixir 1.0).

Please have a look here for details.

Erwan

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ILOG Elixir featured on Adobe Dev Connection

Posted by Christophe Jolif on May 29th, 2008

In its latest release Adobe Developer connection is featuring in its Flex section a presentation about ILOG Elixir. This is a recording of an eSeminar Julian and I gave a few weeks ago. If you already know ILOG Elixir you should not learn much but if you are a newcomer and want to see which kind of advanced visual displays you can build in Flex & AIR…

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Special pricing for start-ups and small companies

Posted by Erwan Paccard on May 19th, 2008

ILOG now offers a new ILOG Elixir pricing scheme for small corporations.

If your company has fewer than 15 employees and generates revenue less than 1.5 million annually, ILOG Elixir yearly OEM fees do not apply to you. You only…

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Light Ramp Gauges

Posted by Christophe Jolif on May 6th, 2008

In general, ILOG Elixir gauges are displaying the current value of the gauge using a pointer pattern such as a needle or a marker. However in some cases you might want to display the current value using a different pattern than pointing the value. A typical example is a light ramp gauge that is displaying the current value using color lighting on a ramp such as in the following example:

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The BitmapFader class, a generic approach for smooth transitions

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on April 25th, 2008

This post demonstrates how to make smooth transitions when a component view changes. I used this technique in the FactBook Demo and in Filemap (the AIR sample bundled with ILOG Elixir).

This behaviour is implemented by the…

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