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between graphical elements, such as TitleWindows,

using a roll-

ing cube effect.

He also provides movie-style effects, such as flipping and gat-

ing, and a wide variety of additional effects to jazz up your

interface.

SpringGraph

Mark Shepherd has put together an amazing tree visualization

tool called SpringGraph (http://mark-shepherd.com/Spring

Graph/). Shown in Figure 7-7 is an example of his code pointed

at Amazon’s Apple iPod search.

This kind of visualization is ideal for social networks, graphing

information relationships, and anything that is formed in a

spider web of interrelated connections.

This chapter represented just a fraction of the Flex libraries and

components that are available to you. You can find out more

at http://Flex.org/ and at FlexBox (http://flexbox.mrinalwadh

wa.com/). Flex components are also available in the Flex com-

ponents portion of the Adobe Exchange site at http://

www.Adobe.com/.

Figure 7-6. The cube distortion effect

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