I have been working on a very simple Mate based application using Flex. The simple contact manager searches a list of contacts and displays the found contacts using a sliding draw effect, in a similar way to the 'dictionary' widget on the Mac dashboard.

This is by no means the finished application and has not been styled in any way, I have added this here so that I can get some feedback for my understanding of the framework.

I have started to play around with Flex, Mate Framework and the Presentation Model. My current project involves using a progress bar to display the loading times when uploading documents. As the ProgressBar component in Flex does not have a bindable property it took me awhile to solve this, this posts displays the method that I took to get round this problem.

I have started to do more XML work with Actionscript 3 and found myself needing to create an object of attributes from a node.

My custom Flash components have been moved their own website and are now called flashyextras. To visit the website follow the link - FlashyExtras.