Comments on: From photoshop design to a Flex 4 skin

By: Art

Art — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:46:42 +0000

“In other words just every compiled flex project, no matter how simple it is will weight somewhere around 200KB?”

Not exactly, but yes, all Flex apps do have a core weight, regardless of the simplicity.

But that initial weight pays off. You can have very powerful apps that are very light. Flex works best with Applications, not so much with simple websites that all they need are rollover effects.

By: Ansury

Ansury — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:21:51 +0000

“My main concern was, how big this thing (skinned component) maybe. Now according to the FireBug Net tab it’s – 226.5 KB ”

Probably because you’re not comparing apples to apples. If you’re comparing a Flash *application* with a jpg and some javascript, it’s like comparing a Java Swing application with an HTML page.

By: Sameera Thilakasiri

Sameera Thilakasiri — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:27:03 +0000

Yes, frankly it is fantastic, goooogled for lot, but couldn’t find clear article relative to PSD to Skinning.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:23:43 +0000

“Also, the size of the download here is the size of the application + a small addition for the skin classes.”

In other words just every compiled flex project, no matter how simple it is will weight somewhere around 200KB?

By: Robert Bak

Robert Bak — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:19:17 +0000

It’s not about creating buttons for web pages, but about creating skins for Adobe Flex applications (which don’t have much to do with small Flash projects). So to answer you shortly – using HTML is not even an option. Also, the size of the download here is the size of the application + a small addition for the skin classes.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:36:15 +0000

Hmm…

My main concern was, how big this thing (skinned component) maybe. Now according to the FireBug Net tab it’s – 226.5 KB (oh my!). It’s way bigger then jQuery+jQuery UI and all my raw sliced pngs all togeter. Why on earth should I use this instead of pure JS/CSS/HTML approach? Or maybe your version just isn’t optimized?

By: Vince Genovese

Vince Genovese — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:53:20 +0000

Hi Robert,

I like this article on Flex 4 Skins. It clearly describes what

We’re trying to add more links in our docs so that Flex developers are made aware of the great community content out there. I’m wondering whether you would consider adding a comment with a link to your post to the following page:

* Your page: http://www.robertbak.com/wordpress/2010/03/from-photoshop-design-to-a-flex-4-skin/

* Our page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flex/4.0/UsingSDK/WSC8DB0C28-F7A6-48ff-9899-7957415A0A49.html

Integration of customer-generated content is a key component in the success of the Flash platform documentation, so we really appreciate your contribution. FYI, here’s a blog post with a little more information about community help contributions: http://blogs.adobe.com/actionscriptdocs/2009/08/developers_and_writers_adobe_w.html. This post specifically mentions Adobe AIR but we’re doing this across the entire Adobe Flash Platform.

Vince Genovese
Senior Technical Writer
Adobe Systems Incorporated