Comments on: Live “reflection” component

By: List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools « Gyandas's Blog

List of 31 Flex APIs, Libraries, Components and Tools « Gyandas's Blog — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:48:53 +0000

[...] Live â€œreflectionâ€ component http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2006/07/05/live-reflection-component/ [...]

By: vijesh

vijesh — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:51:20 +0000

The application is really cool. How we can set the height and width of the reflection. If we have the falloff is .5 then it should take only half of the original height.

By: Chris Brind

Chris Brind — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:44:31 +0000

Hi,

I noticed a weird thing when using this in Flex 4 (don’t know if it applies to Flex 3 as well) – when setting a new component as the target, the previous one would display briefly. It was more obvious to me because I was applying a fade effect during a state transition to the target component, then switching the target to a different component during the exitState handler.

Anyway, I fixed it by calling graphics.clear() in the clearCachedBitmaps() function.

Cheers,
Chris

By: WebGuy

WebGuy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:34:25 +0000

Perhaps you should have gone with a BSD style license like most other UI developers (Apple and others use it) instead of the GPL which requires that anyone such as myself who is writing a distributable application ALSO provide the souyrce code if I incorporate your handful of bits. Consiodering this code would make up less than 1% of the app and is trivial and has been done by many others …. I don;’t think your licensing requirements are worth it. If you were really stuck on the “cool” image the GPL has, you could have gone with the LGPL, which is good for things such as this, and I have used that many times in the past myself for code I wish others to use, but without the restrictions and requirements of the GPL. You might want to reconsider your approach to licensing and read the terms you are expecting others to follow and ask yourself “is it worth it for what I am offering in return?”

By: Useful links « Guavus (flex)

Useful links « Guavus (flex) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:48:44 +0000

[...] Live “reflection” component http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2006/07/05/live-reflection-component/ [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:20:13 +0000

Now someone just has to make one that takes things like light source into account when dragging it around. Great work, fun stuff. if only I knew something about Flash/Flex.

By: RICH INTERNET » Blog Archive » Flex Explorer

RICH INTERNET » Blog Archive » Flex Explorer — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:02:51 +0000

[...] Live reflection component http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2006/07/05/live-reflection-component/ [...]

By: Shoty

Shoty — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:39:03 +0000

hey,
i want a gap of 2 pixels between the original object and the reflectorobject, i tried this:

transform.translate(0, _target.height+2);

the gap has the color of the bordercolor of the canvas. why?
thanks

By: Creating a DragImage from your UIComponent | Axelology

Creating a DragImage from your UIComponent | Axelology — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:00 +0000

[...] One of the things you have to do is grab the BitmapData from the UIComponent. You can do this by using a function written by Andrew Trice he explains it more in his post, but basically the function creates a blank Empty Matrix to hold the BitmapData. This is also a very popular way of creating reflections. [...]

By: nj

nj — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:05:07 +0000

Hey everyone–take a look at http://www.rictus.com/muchado/2008/02/21/updated-reflection-component/ for an updated version to see if it fixes your problems. Thanks!