This is part four in a series. You can read the rest of the posts here, here and here.

Phase three of the application is here.

Its amazing what a bit of outside input can add to these experiments. After a long conversation with Chris Power at Six Degrees Creative we removed the pop up window mechanism of the last version and redesigned the layout. Chris, if he has the time, may help steer this baby to completion design wise.

The other advance is my custom scrolling label to display text that doesn't fit. Flex has Tool tips that appear but I love this functionality on the iPod and wanted to try to recreate it in Flex. Extending the existing label control to add the functionality I wanted was not to hard at all.

I will post the code for my ScrollingLabel component soon.

This is part three in a series. You can read the first, posts here and here. You can see phase one of my application here

Phase two is here.

Phase two utilises the Flex Scheduling Component to show the movie sessions in time and space. Clicking the movie launches an overlay displaying the movie details, preview and ticket purchase form.

This is really my first foray into trying out the Flex effects in an attempt to give some "style" to the application and move away from the vanilla Flex components.

As with other Flex projects I have undertaken my biggest concern always revolves around UI design and once again I reach for my "Designing Interfaces?" book.

P.S. - The movie schedule is totally random in that it is built internally from an XML file containing movie meta data including the movie duration. Therefore you probably won't see the same schedule even when you revisit the same day. Obviously a real life application would load real data.

This is part two in a series. You can read the first, brief, post here. You can see phase one of my application here

My first shot at this doesn't really have much going for it UI wise and obviously a lot of the functionality of the existing html Cinema application is not there.

The big thing to take into account is that it was quite literally less than a couple of hours work. That includes building even this demo on Cairngorm.

I spent more time finding , downloading and encoding the trailers into FLV format.

Version two of this application will use the Flex Schedule Framework to layout the timetable and I spent Friday afternoon digging into that code base and building my own renderers etc. Stay tuned