Flexboxx – A filter explorer for Flex
We are doing a lot of Flex skinning work here at Viaboxx, and IntelliJ IDEA’s lack of a WYSIWYG editor, especially for filters, made this rather tedious in the past. We did use this tool, but it’s outdated, occasionally offline and not open source, so we cannot extend it. Therefore we decided to develop our own filter explorer during 20 percent time, Flexboxx, and open sourced it.
Currently, you can use Flexboxx to manipulate a shape and a filter applied to it until it suits your needs, and then generate the source code for the filter. This is quite helpful when trying to get drop shadows or glow effects right.
We will probably extend the tool further, the next big thing on our list is support for gradients. We have a really sophisticated control for this in mind, stay tuned.
