Monday, September 8, 2008

Icon placement of a Button: A child's play

3 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 7:00 PM

Hi everyone,
It has been a long time that I have written something thoughtful about Flex or Usability. I was suffering from what they call 'writers block'. So I thought why not to try and write something which is very useful yet simple. How many times have we been in a situation to put an ‘Icon’ on a button? Well it is very easy in Flex to add an icon on your beloved button. However, if the situation demands you to move your icon all over the places on the button then how does it feel?? You will not find any property called as iconPlacement or something like that. So then if the Icon does not move here and there, then let us move the button label. Logic isn’t it? So here it, a simple property that makes like quite easy and it is called ‘labelPlacement’. Below is a simple application which describes the power of this property. You can check the source code here

 

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Google Chrome Evaluation

0 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 10:32 AM

So I am back after a while. And this time I am not going to rant about Flex or Usability but about Google Chrome. Well, it will be too early to say that this is the GenNext browser, but as of now, it seems fantastic to me. It is really simple and elegant.
After I played with it for a while I noticed some of the features which I like very much.

1. When you want to view the source code of your web page, it opens in another browser window unlike in the notepad in the case of IE 6
2.Text zooming in incredible
3. Overall I felt that the settings and options are nicely grouped and are kept really simple. Usability at it's best 
4. And last but not the least, the SPEED. I did not measure it but can surely feel that it can download images and pages real fast.

So thats all I have got about Chrome.
You can download it here

 

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I am a Certified Usability Analyst of the Month

3 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 6:13 PM

It has been quite a long time that I have blogged. So here I am and there is one reason to celebrate and that is I have been recognized by Human Factors International (HFI) as a CUA of the month. You can see my interview here.

 

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Embedding Flex 3 applications within the SharePoint Portal Server

4 comments Posted by Rahul Mainkar at 5:53 PM

Use the standard page viewer web part of the SharePoint Portal Server.Many organizations use SharePoint Portal Server widely as a portal or website. If you want to plug in your standalone Flex 3 application inside SharePoint Portal Server, follow these steps:
1 .Compile your Flex 3 application using Flex Builder 3 and run it. This will create a .swf file to be embedded inside your SharePoint Portal Server. You can get this swf file inside the ‘bin’ folder of your Flex project.
2. Log in to your SharePoint Portal Server; make sure you have the rights to edit the site or page of this portal. Upload this compiled .swf file into a document library of your portal.
3. Add a web part named “Page viewer web part” to your page. In the link property, specify the URL of the uploaded swf file. You can get this link by clicking the file from the document library.

Your Flex application should now be running inside your SharePoint Portal Server.

 

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