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Filed under Lab on March 30, 2007 by Chris LoSaccoIntroducing : ShuffleStack
Andy Lewisohn, one of our rockstar Flex coders, just put together a really slick solution to a very common problem. We often contend with large amounts of information that vie for attention on our apps' screens, and reusing the same components time and again just doesn't always work. Over in the lab, Andy shows us ShuffleStack, a Flex component that tackles this problem in a better way.
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This is very nice you guys .... I am planning a big time update to FlexBox's component list ... and it would be cool if I could have your permission to add this to FlexBox.
Posted on April 2, 2007 1:09 AM by Mrinal Wadhwa
Mrinal -
That sounds great. Thanks for including us, and let us know when you've updated.
We appreciate it.
Posted on April 9, 2007 4:58 PM by Chris LoSacco
I noticed that the control breaks if you click on an item in the stack while another item is moving. To easily replicate this, set the Move Duration to 1000 and apply the settings. Then, click on all of the headers for each panel quickly in succession. You will see some mismatched stacking.
Other than that, it looks rather pretty. But, I don't know when I would use such a thing.
It would also be cool if you added a property that, when set to true, allowed clicks anywhere on the exposed area of the panel to bring it to the front.
Posted on April 26, 2007 2:09 PM by Sean
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Looks neat, but I can't see why one would use this over the controls it is supposed to replace, accordion, viewstack or tabnavigator - it takes up more room and doesn't bring much to the table than a pretty face.
If the user could click anywhere on the buried "shuffles" to bring them to the top, it would make sense to devote the screen real estate as an affordance to directly navigate the stack, but since this doesn't allow navigation other than by clicking on the title bars, its just a pretty but screen space wasting accordion.
I guess thats a feature request for you :)
Maybe its just a bad example and it does make sense somewhere...
Posted on March 30, 2007 6:18 PM by James