Birth of a Flex Project - Updated Oct 22 2006

Awrist Build 0.1 Oct 17, 2006

Complete:

• Product Display List
• Product Display Item Renderer
• Product Details View

Short list of Todos:

• Create Product Filter to ask visitors questions about their band needs and show them bands that match selected criteria
• CheckOut items grid needs remove properties
• CheckOut items grid needs Item Renderer to show item details possibly make expandable?
• Refined Expand Grid concept in CheckOut Grid
• Create a value object for calculated total's fields.
• Fill in About Us panel
• Fill in Contact Us panel .
• Contact Panel needs form validation and server side handler.

Feel free to ask questions about how parts of this application work and i'll do my best to share relevant code.

UPDATE Oct 18 2006

View Source is Enabled

By Request here (view source enabled) is stripped down portion of the app to demonstrate how to animate the product detail view. In the application root you'll notice a code block I reserved called Effect Group. Within it are the effects tags; I wrapped the actual effects in the <mx:Parralel/> tag for now because I may want to add addition effects like blur down the road. In addition take into consideration this code has not yet been re-factored so I'm certain there is room for improvement.

UPDATE Oct 22 2006

Take a look at the progression on the Cart View of this app. Using a customer ItemRenderer in the quantity column of the cart data grid I've allowed the user to modify their quantities and receive cost updates in real time. Also note the "Expand Grid" button (the label for this button will change in the future) when the cart becomes over crowded for the default view the user can expand it out full screen. This is simply a transitioning to a new state and back. Additionally I've begun to test filtering the product catalog, so far i'm filtering on a boolean value to decided if a band is waterproof or not. Eventually the filter will have about 5 or 6 variables. If anyone wants to see some code on the stuff in the update let me know and i'll post a simplified example.

UPDATE Jan 22, 2007 Site Launching

Sorry for the radio silence, been super busy with this project and several others that has kept me from posting more frequently. Well Awrist is about to launch and is currently up at https://www.awrist.com By all means give it a try and if there are parts of it you guys have questions about just ask. Note the current link is really just a soft launch, you can place orders but they will only bill to a testing credit card "4242424242424242", untill the end of the week. So feel free to try the application out keeping that in mind.