Archive for the ‘ILOG Elixir’ Category

ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview program: new drop

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

We are pleased to release the second drop of the ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview program.

We updated the collaborative web section with new installers & release notes. As we are not yet in the beta phase, features and APIs are still…

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ILOG Elixir and accessibility

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Most ILOG Elixir components are making sure they are keyboard accessible, however you might wonder if you can go one step further and enable screen reader capabilities with them. Giorgio Natili has a nice post on his blog explaining how he…

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ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview demo: Flex calendar for Beijing 2008

Wednesday, 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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Dynamically add or remove items in an OrgChart

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

In this post we will see:

  • How to dynamically add or remove data items in an OrgChart,
  • Pitfalls when using XML data,
  • How to synchronize a Tree component with an OrgChart.

You will need the patch 1 of ILOG Elixir that is available…

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ILOG Elixir Gauges using Flex 4 (aka Gumbo) FXG

Friday, July 18th, 2008

As you may know Adobe has released on its open-source web site the first nightly builds of Flex 4 aka Gumbo release. You can download them here. If you want to give it a try, go ahead, but carefully read the instructions and be cautious as these are very early builds.

One of the nice thing that Adobe has already introduced in these early builds is the FXG extension to MXML that allows you to define in MXML the graphical representation of an object instead of relying on external (SWF, rasters…) assets or on programmatic ActionScript drawings. This is pretty handy because in a few lines of FXG you are able to draw something that would have required much less flexible code to be written in Flex 3.

I couldn’t resist to give it a try, and defining the graphical representation of an ILOG Elixir Gauge using Gumbo FXG.

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ILOG Elixir 2.0 preview program starts!

Thursday, 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

Wednesday, 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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Making overlapping tasks stand out

Monday, 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

Monday, 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

Thursday, 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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