Meandering Thought

Here's another visualization of an actionscript framework. This time its the very simple Adobe Cairngorm framework.  I also tried out using the Transitioner Class from the Flare framework to straighten the edges of the graph when the visualization loads.  

Here is another visualization much like the Papervision 3d visualization in the previous post.  I'm going to keep posting these code visualizations for actionscript libraries in the coming days as I get more time. 

After reading this tutorial here I implemented the gradient used in photoshop within flash. I wrote a quick little static class to create this as a six color gradient on the fly. Source Files   

//Gradient
 
package com.extralongfingers.utilities.visual
{
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.geom.Matrix;
	/**	 * @author Gregory Sogorka	 */
	public class BlueGradientBox
	{
		public function BlueGradientBox()
		{
			trace( "Ouch! I'm static. " );
		}
		public static function make( _target : Sprite, w : Number, h : Number, x : Number, y : Number, corner : Number ) : void
		{
			_target.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x8c8c8c);
			//Colors and Ratios copied from Adobe Photoshop gradient presets.
			var colors : Array = [ 0x02a8e4, 	0x47bef0 , 	0x147bb6, 	0x005081, 	0x023761,	0x7295b5 	];
			var alphas : Array = [ 50, 	 		70, 		100 , 		100, 		100, 		100			];
			var ratios : Array = [ 15,  		19, 		77, 		136, 		248, 		254			];
			var matrix : Matrix	= new Matrix( );
			matrix.createGradientBox(w, h);
			_target.graphics.beginGradientFill("linear", colors, alphas, ratios, matrix);
			_target.graphics.drawRoundRect(x, y, w, h, corner, corner);
		}
	}
}