Degrafa – Declarative Graphics Framework for Flex 2 & 3

What is Degrafa?

Degrafa is an open source declarative graphics framework for Flex used by some of the industry’s top designers and developers. The framework can be used for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from rich user interfaces to intense graphics editing. Degrafa wants to enable the developers to create dynamic , runtime graphics with MXML , it’s like creating custom MXML components but then with graphics. The MXML code can hold different attributes like fills , strokes , shapes and others to define the graphic element. With their way of thinking they will eventually enable all the designers to create interactive graphical applications without having to go through the hassle of learning ActionScript.

Features?

• A library of pre-composed shapes for you to use as well as the ability to create your own.
• Use SVG path data to create complete reusable shapes. • Flexible options for fills and strokes.
• Binding of properties for Fills, Strokes and Geometry.
• Advanced CSS support for layered backgrounds, complex border control and background image positioning based on CSS 3.
• Productive features like derivatives, composition reuse, shape libraries, repeaters, and other utilities that allow you to do more with less code.
• Light weight model-based architecture.
• Compatibility with Flex 2 and Flex 3.

Make sure to check out their website , were you can find starting information and nice and usefull tutorials!

Read more technical information about Degrafa at the insideria blog , or more information at http://creative-geeks.com/

Happy MXML’ing!