This is long overdue. Minimal Comps have been a sort of side project of mine, and have various posts here related to them, but enough people are using them and apparently liking them, that it seemed they deserved a home of their own.
The site is nothing fancy (minimal?), and it seemed fitting to use the components to make the site, but at least it serves as a single point where people can go to find out what they are, where to get them, see demos and examples, get documentation, find out where to report bugs, etc.
Also, note that I had been pretty remiss about addressing bugs and issues in the past. I didn’t have the issue tracker set up to notify me about new issues, so had no idea there were so many in there. I think I handled almost all of the ones that were in there now, and should be notified of any new ones.
Very cool ! In complementary of minimal comp, i use myLib components for more complexes projects. it handle lot of things : forms (with errors), media player (with stream, pseudo stream, …), scrollbar, scrollpane, etc etc …
You sould have a look : http://mylib.samystudio.net/
Niceone, good resource. Bookmarked! :p
I do have one suggestion for the comps (i didnt want to make an Issue of it so i’ll comment here): i like the minimal look and everything, but for some projects the grey-colors just dont do it. Would it be nice if there was like a global color-scheme/stylesheet kinda thing where we could specifiy the colors? Like now it’s very techie-looking, but with a splash of color they would look great (the comps would be great in a black main-color with white lettering for example). Im not sure how far this should go, but one global setting would allready be great.
Nice work. I shall definitely be giving these a whirl.
Awesome stuff. Have you had a chance to look at any of the changes I made to make the comps more MXML friendly? Would love to see some of this merged back into your codebase if possible:
http://github.com/darscan/MinimalComps/commits/master
Demo:
http://github.com/darscan/minimal-experiment/blob/master/src/main.mxml
Just checked out your great components. The colorchooser was little bit odd, with no saturation. Often you have hue x saturation and luminance separately at the side. Dull colors are not too bad 😉
It’s been ages since I had a look at all the new comps, so there’s tons more now 🙂
Really liking the ‘analogue’ style comps such as the knob and meter which are clean and elegant…
Brilliant!!
Oh, @bart, there’s a style.as file that many (if not all, haven’t checked!) of the comps reference for their colours which you could change? (if that’s allowed 🙂
Awesome Components! The site could use some deep linking though – maybe with HistoryKeeper (shameless) – or maybe swfaddress – that’s less “minimal” though. 😉
Cheers for these helpful tools. 🙂
Just one question though… You override the width and height getters to return a protected value and I’m wondering what was the reason behind that? All the components effectively had zero dimension. (In my case HBox and VBox)
I’m currently using a modified component class with getters like this:
return (_width) ? _width : super.width
There are many cases where you can’t rely on the visual height and width. Most components will set a default size in their init function. Boxes need to be able to update their reported size based on their contents. There’s a fix coming for that.
Best thing I’ve seen in a long time!
Might be nice to update the title of the docs page “All Packages – API Documentation” to include the words “Minimal Comps” so it makes a nicer bookmark.
Brilliant contribution, thanks 🙂