{"id":239,"date":"2008-02-09T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T01:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/windowshade-component-added-to-flexlib\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:44:37","slug":"windowshade-component-added-to-flexlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/windowshade-component-added-to-flexlib\/","title":{"rendered":"WindowShade component added to FlexLib"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Flex container has been added to FlexLib<\/a>, called the WindowShade. This container shows a header button above or below the content of the container. Clicking the header button opens or closes the panel. This lets you easily create expandable panels in your Flex applications. A single WindowShade container can be used on its own, or you can place a few of them in a VBox to make something similar to an Accordion, except you can have multiple children open at once (similar to Peter Ent’s stack components).<\/p>\n

The component was contributed by Dave Glasser, of iDashboards<\/a>. I initially went back and forth<\/a> with Dave about the component. At first I thought this was really trying to be an accordion component with multiple open children, in which case I figured if we were going to do that component we should do it right (maybe extend Accordion). But I’ve since been won over to the usefulness of a single WindowShade container, and in my latest project I even used it – 3 times \ud83d\ude42 So I worked with Dave and we reworked the component a bit, and now I think it’s pretty nifty.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example that uses LinkButtons for the headers. You can use any Button control (ie Button, LinkButton, CanvasButton).<\/p>\n

This movie requires Flash Player 9.<\/div>\n