The main reason Ive been waiting for Degrafa, is the simple fact I’m not a designer. I’m crap at deciding colours, and even worse at deciding what are nice shapes to use on a website.
With Degrafa, the allure of making pretty shapes in MXML and being able to style it via binding and other such features seems pretty tempting. Whilst playing with stateful skins in flex 3, I’ve made a nice button which has unsymmetrical corners, a radial and liner fill, and some nice transitions between the two. However, it still looks a bit clunky, once again proving that I don’t have a designers bone in my body. I will still keep trying though, because I don’t want my flex app to look as samey as the rest.
I just like to say that the Degrafa team have done an awesome job at making styling and skinning as easy as possible, even though I don’t have the talent to use it, yet!
Hang in there. We’re hoping to put together libraries of Degrafa objects that can be shared and used, even skins. Image ScaleNine.com, but all in Degrafa and easily editable in Flex.