For the last couple of months I haven't had need to launch Flex Builder at all and, so, I've not really talked about it here much.

Now though I am getting back in to it as I have a fairly in-depth project on at the moment for which I'm using Flex to great advantage. Flex Builder has been permanently open for the last week or so.

Since this requires brushing up on my Flex skills I've also been taking the chance to update the Howlett accounts application. Notice in the shot below I've added a semi-circular spendometer and a seven-segment display. Both of which are part of the iLog Elixir addons for Flex.

The spendometer shows how much we've spent so far in the current month. The aim being to keep it out of the red bit at the top end of the scale.

The numeric display shows us how much we've spent so far in the current year compared to the same period last year. The aim is to keep it green (a negative number), which means we've spent less that we had in the previous year. As you can see we're off to a good start (by this time last year we'd been to two weddings, one of which I was the best man at and needed to buy a matching suit for).

What this shows - I hope - is how easily you can add useful features to Flex apps. The two changes above took my no more than an hour to plugin.

Anyway, what I'm getting round to saying is that I have some stuff I want to share with you. Over the next few days/posts I want to talk about the way in which I've started developing Notes-like Views and Forms in Flex. When done it should give you some idea how you can build a basic Notes-like application in Flex.