The new layout architecture in Flex 4 is pretty cool. It’s much much simpler to implement complex layouts than what was possible with Flex 3. So the other day I was asked to develop a TimeMachine-like layout. It eventually ended up being done with Flex 3 but before that I had a chance to give a try with the new layout system.
So I picked a bit of Evtim’s Wheel layout, added a bit of Ryan Campbell’s 5 3D Layouts (who got himself inspired by Evtim’s example), blended the whole thing in my own recipe and ended up with something I thought I should share.
It’s not optimized, some things can certainly be done a different/better way, but at least it works reasonably well and gives another idea of how easy it is to implement complex layouts with Flex 4.
Read more: http://www.flexstuff.co.uk/2009/11/06/flex-4-animated-timemachine-layout/ (with a working demo)