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Efflex: Designer effects for Flex

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Efflex is a set of designer effects for Adobe Flex created by Stephen Downs (aka "Tink"). Stephen presented Efflex at the recent Flash on the Beach conference and has a background in building applications for the Flash platform. Stephen was also recently featured at Flash on Tap earlier this month.

Efflex has a really interesting set of transitions that go beyond the normal fade and flip (it has those too.) Probably my favorite is the "MovieClipEffect", which Stephen demos as a sort of tv-turning-on animation on the Efflex example page. He's also implemented some really cool scroll and zoom effects that make your application appear to be embedded in the midst of a giant wall of similar applications.

Efflex Transition Explorer
The Efflex transition explorer

One of the coolest things about Efflex is that Stephen open sourced it. To download the code, check out the Google code project here. You can also find a copy of Stephen's slides from Flash on the Beach here.

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Tink said:

Thanks for spreading the word.

On a side note Flash on Tap got moved so I will now be out there in May, and I'll be at FiTC in Amsterdam in Feb.

The Fade is a little different from the normal ones you get with Flex as it enables you to show both children at the same time (something that the base class ViewStackEffect allows).

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