Here's a little example how easy it is to combine classical GUI elements like the TitleWindow component and Papervision3D to get eye-candy effect. The effect is very similar to the Microsoft Window Vista Aero style. You can also select a window to focus it after toggling into 3D. Source code and video are available... enjoy!

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Flex 3 project files: Flex Aero (28.45 Kb)

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ole said:

what happens to the picture on action?!?!?!

2008-04-03 00:08:28

erik said:

Hi ole, yes you're right. This is a strange result of the ImageSnapshot method from Flex 3 library. Maybe it wouldn't appear by drawing the "snapshot" of the component using the native BitmapData.draw method.

2008-04-03 13:51:10 | url

OLE said:

AAAA I launched it in Flex 3 and it dos not work!!!((( http://superior0.narod.ru/FlexWindows.html http://superior0.narod.ru/FlexAero.html and here is the project http://superior0.narod.ru/FlexWindows.rar (PV3d&Tweeeener already in may be I've done something wrong?(

2008-04-29 08:25:49

vinoth said:

library files are missing in source code.

2008-05-04 06:17:58

erik said:

Hi vinoth, thanks for the feedback. This is done on purpose. We just provide our sources to keep the filesize at a minimum. I'll post the links of the used libraries in our future articles.

2008-05-05 16:06:25 | url

erik said:

Hi OLE, sorry for the delay but I just tried to understand what could be wrong. Do you use a Flex 3 beta version or an older version of Papervision?

2008-05-07 09:03:02 | url

marcel said:

Hi, very nice. and the missing library?

2008-05-29 03:19:23

erik said:

Hi Marcel, a typical practice on Flex Builder plugin is the usage of "linked libraries". This is more effective instead of copying the libraries over and over again into the projects' folders. Not only that many visitors already got Papervision3D or other 3rd party libraries on their systems, I also prefer to keep the filesize of downloads as slim as possible. As already mentioned above I'll include links to the 3rd party libraries in future articles and I did in the 2 latest ones. If you still got problems with this topic please feel free to contact me.

2008-05-29 08:46:34 | url

Nuwan said:

Hi, this is really nice and I downloaded the project. and i tried to to opent it in Flex 3 Professional. and i put the papervision 3D also. but still lot of libraries are missing. and still i can't set this up. so Please help me with this.

2008-07-04 08:56:46

Nuwan said:

Hi all, this thank specially going out to OLE cos he posted some limks to his project and I downloded them. In his project, I found all the missing libraries. and now it's perfectly working. so again thank you very much OLE!

2008-07-04 09:17:40

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