We have faced this situation many times when we kept wondering while developing a flex application if instead of going back to design/coding mode,we can change the visual appearance right there at the run time and see the results right away.Many a times we are not sure of the visual appearance of the component at the design time and we have to run the whole application in order to see the final result. If you are bogged down just like me with this annoyance then FlexSpy can come to your rescue. FlexSpy is tool using which one can change the look and feel of the component at the run time dynamically and inspect the appearance of the component.This way the tool can help us save the development time and imagine using the tool while demoing your application to your users,just as they raise questions on the look n feel,may be a different color- invoke FlexSpy right away and change the properties right there.The installation is easy and above all its free and open source. Check out more about the tool here and check out the demo here too.
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I am Saurabh Narula, Engineer at Honywell Technology Solutions,Bangalore. I work as Rich Internet Applications Developer with Business Intelligence Team in ITSS Honeywell. This Blog is about my experiences and learnings with RIA, RIA Technologies & Business Intelligence practices,applications and technologies.You can drop me an email at reachsaurabhnarula@gmail.com
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January 3, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Wow thank you so much for bringing this to peoples attention, I had ever heard of it and sure will be taking a close look at the tool!
Regards,
Peter Witham
January 21, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Thanks Saurabh for pointing such a flex component .