Comments on: Flex Panel Expose Attempt

By: Nankun Huang

Nankun Huang — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:27:54 +0000

May I know what kind of algorithm you are using to pack your windows together? issit some variation of a heuristic strip packing method or are you using some form of a local search method…. seems very interesting.

By: sxm

sxm — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:29:36 +0000

I see you are using a Draggable TItleWindow. I have a similar requirement. The problem I have is that it I want this window to be draggable only via the title bar (mimic the bahaviour just like popup but without actually opening it as popup). Do u have any ideas in mind.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:23:52 +0000

Naw, mine doesn’t emulate it well at all. I was bored and this was the result of a few hours of techno n’ code. I’ve played with yours and it’s a lot better. You obviously have spent some quality time on it.

By: Manish Jethani

Manish Jethani — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:16:06 +0000

Jesse, you beat me to it! I promise I didn’t copy you I started working on this soon after I bought my first Mac, sometime in mid-November. I was hoping to finish it sooner, but, as you know, it’s hard to make a component that can simply be plugged into any app, without any bugs or known issues. Then I got desperate and thought I’d post a demo anyway.

Your implementation looks nice, but I suspect it doesn’t emulate the exact OS X behaviour (just from a cursory look at the code). I’m yet to run it though: this machine does’t have FP9.

More on this later. I’ll probably send you my messed up source code, if you promise not to tell anyone what a crappy programmer I am.

Have a nice weekend!

By: greg h

greg h — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:03:51 +0000

Funny, no downloadable source yet, but Manish Jethani just put up a demo of his effort at Expose in Flex, dubbing it Flexpose. See: http://mannu.livejournal.com/383661.html