Enhanced Panel Skin for Flex

FBPanelBgSkin is a free component (licensed under the MIT License) for Adobe Flex 3 that adds additional styles to a Flex Panel, TitleWindow or Alert.

The additional styles that become available when the FBPanelBgSkin component is used include an inner shadow for the content area, a gradient background for the content area, a tiled image background for the content area, a tiled image border, and the ability to independently adjust the transparency of a background image and the transparency of the content area.

Here is a screen shot showing the component in use for a simple Panel and a simple TitleWindow:

Setting Up Subversion for Flex on Leopard

Up until fairly recently I’ve used Windows as my development platform, but OS X won me over and now I’m in the Apple camp. My past experience with Unix is limited, so when I wanted to add Subversion to my Mac as a version control system for Flex I discovered that I was going to have to do a bit of research.

When I started digging around for information about installing Subversion on a Macintosh I found that Apple had thoughtfully integrated Subversion into the base installation of Leopard (there’s no need to install the developer tools). With the Subversion installation already loaded the next question became “What do I need to do to use it?”

After spending some time with Google, I discovered a document by a developer at Sonza that describes how to configure Subversion on Leopard. The article goes into greater detail than is required if all you want is a simple Subversion set up, so I’ve extracted the relevant steps and included information on installing Subclipse for Eclipse. If you are interested in a more robust Subversion installation, I suggest that you take a look at the original document.

If you’re ready to get started, open up a Terminal window and follow along.