Damien Mandrioli

Damien is a software engineer in the ILOG Elixir development team working on polar components (radar charts, circular gauges) and product samples.

ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview demo: Flex calendar for Beijing 2008

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on August 20th, 2008

As Erwan said in a previous blog post, ILOG Elixir 2.0 will ship with a Flex calendar component. It is still in development, but stable enough to start playing with it!

Olympic Games have hundreds of simultaneous events; it’s a…

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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.

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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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Custom Gauge Example: The Partition Gauge

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on April 18th, 2008

This blog entry focuses on one of the custom gauges I used in the FactBook Demo post.


This gauge is an editable gauge which allows to divide an interval with triangle cursors.
We will see how…

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Advanced dashboard with ILOG Elixir: The World FactBook

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on March 25th, 2008

In this post, I show an advanced demonstration of what you can do with ILOG Elixir, my goal was to:

  • use most of ILOG Elixir components in the same application,
  • use real data.

The C.I.A. World Factbook is a good data source for…

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Another clock widget for iGoogle, Netvibes, … Step 2: Integrating the clock using JS/ExternalInterface

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on February 5th, 2008

Now, we will transform our clock in a widget for Netvibes and iGoogle using the UWA (Universal API Widget) from Netvibes.
Here is a description of UWA:

“The Universal Widget API is developed by Netvibes as a way for widgets to be available…

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Another clock widget for iGoogle, Netvibes, … Step 1: Building a clock with ILOG Elixir

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on February 5th, 2008

As mashup plateforms like iGoogle or Netvibes become more and more popular in the web 2.0 world, it might be interesting to see how Flex stuff can be integrated with them. The widget we are going to create is probably one of the most…

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Blinking circular gauge with ILOG Elixir

Posted by Damien Mandrioli on January 25th, 2008

In this post, I will use ILOG Elixir Gauges framework to build a circular gauge which blinks if the value of the gauge is greater than a threshold value. This kind of gauge can be useful to point out critical…

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