Aug 17
Save your CSS with the Flex 2: Styles Creator
A while back I was playing around with the Flex 2: Styles Explorer (Developed by Adobe Consulting) and I thought to myself that it would be nice if you could save the CSS that you create with it. Well, a little AS3 and Ruby later (see the previous post for details) and I present to you The Flex 2: Styles Creator.Â
You can check it out here: http://www.flexonrails.net/stylescreator/public/
Simply use it as you would the Flex 2: Styles Explorer, but if you create something you really like, just click the Download CSS button (my minor contribution) in upper-right hand corner and download it to your machine.
In the future, I plan to build out the back-end so that you will be able to save to a database and share your Styles with everyone else. I hope to get this done in a couple of weeks.
August 17th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Derek,
Very nice stuff. I’ve been currently working on a lot of updates to the style explorer, and one of the things that’s been on my “todo” list is add an “Export All CSS” functionality (or as you’ve more aptly termed it, “Download CSS”).
I was wondering if I have your permission to include the work you’ve done in a next release of the Style Explorer, rather than duplicate work that’s already been done. I, of course, would reference your contribution in the source code as I have others, as well as in the blog posting when the next version is released.
Please contact me offline at the email I’ve included.
Thanks.
August 18th, 2006 at 2:32 am
Very useful tool! But for Panels there seems no option to change the spacing between the outer panel frame and the inner one. Obvislious this is borderThicknessLeft, -right, -top etc. But it looks different. I never saw those thick borders around the Panel before.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Hi Derek,
Styles Creator is nice
Seems viewsource link is broken
(Recognition failed for “/srcview/index.html”)
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:44 am
When I\’m trying to view the source…
Routing Error
Recognition failed for \”/srcview/index.html\”
 [Crap - I forgot to upload the files. It works now.]
August 25th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
The URL http://www.flexonrails.net/stylescreator/public/ doesn’t seem to work for me. I’m using firefox. I just get a screen which is a single solid color.
September 7th, 2006 at 5:19 am
This is great. To take it a step further… I’m building a flex app where I’d love to build a configurator of the application where they adjust the LAF to generate a custom css (for the whole application) that could then be uploaded.
December 15th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Hi Derek,
I wanted to mention I came across a minor issue when choosing a button bar theme color inside the buttons panel. It generates CSS that will flag a compile time error in FB2. I’ve notified Peter as well but wanted to mention it to you for your Styles Creator version. I haven’t miticulously gone through every panel to look for any others but this one I happened across last night testing a desktop version.
Ex:
ButtonBar {
themeColor: #00ccff;
buttonStyleName=”myButtonBar”;
}
Instead of:
ButtonBar {
themeColor: #00ccff;
buttonStyleName: “myButtonBar”;
}
Nothing major but new users may get confused by the recommendations FB2 gives (mouseover fix suggestions doesn’t specify it’s the equal sign but instead recommends a left parenthesis)if they didn’t know the difference. Keep on with the great work!
Chris
December 16th, 2006 at 3:06 am
Sorry to be a constant comment monster Derek
I should have helped in my last comment by saying the fix is line 160 in as/Buttons.as (which you would of course have found but this will certainly speed it up for you )
+ ‘ buttonStyleName=”myButtonBar”;\n’
should be:
+ ‘ buttonStyleName: “myButtonBar”;\n’
Again, I left a comment at The Adobe Consulting site for that article but not sure how fast a turnaround that is. Since yours actually downloads the concatenated CSS and you have a huge RoR fanbase I figured I should mention it to you.
Sorry again
Chris
December 21st, 2006 at 7:03 am
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August 13th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hi Derek, thanks for a great resource.
It would really be handy to be able to load a CSS file we’ve previously saved so we can continue working on a style over time.
Cheers,
Dave
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April 8th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Hi this very good. i have a doubt can we save as new css in to application
then apply dynamically in run time. can you guide me please
regards
ganesh
October 9th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I love this app, but unfortunately for the past few days, rails isn’t launching. I get the following error message:
Application error
Rails application failed to start properly
Could someone please check the backend?