MDI (windowing) Interface with Flex

Posted At : September 13, 2007 6:16 AM | Posted By : Brendan Meutzner
Related Categories: Flex 2 Components
I'm a bit behind the ball with this post after relocating to Austin Texas this past week, but better late than never.

I met Brian Holmes and Ben Clinkinbeard at the 360 Flex conference in Seattle back in August. After a lot of discussion over many beers at the Elephant and Castle at the hotel, we came up with the idea of collaborating together on a MDI interface for Flex. We'd all seen examples of the functionality but felt there was a real void in a robust (free) solution on that topic. So here we are a month later, and after many frustrating IM sessions in 3 different time zones we've released the first iteration of an open source solution.

I couldn't be happier with the way things have turned out, and am very much looking forward to expanding on this project, as well as starting others with these two guys. I'll leave the description of the project to Ben's post on the matter.

http://www.returnundefined.com/2007/09/announcing-flexmdi-robust-extensible-mdi-framework-for-adobe-flex/

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I've done a couple of apps using the WindowManager.as component that comes from Adobe when you use the ColdFusion Application Wizard. This works really well for a basic window manager. If used along with the SizableTitleWindow component, also from the CF Wizard, you get a very basic MDI interface.

I'm looking forward to checking out flexmdi. The examples look really great.

~randy
# Posted By Randy Martin | 11/14/07 9:41 PM
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