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The skinning capabilities of Flex 2 components has been criticized quite a bit. There are a few articles on devnet that discuss this a bit but I have to say that skinning components really does require some effort. The problem is that Flex tries to be the framework for everything and of course everyone’s requirement [...]

Of course I had to do this but this was much easier. Now you can drag the tabs to reorder them. Works pretty well. The one thing that seems lacking is instant notification where the new tab is going (on MouseMove), like FireFox brings up a purple arrow at the point where the tab is [...]

Okay so this took me more than a day but there is a certain level of satisfaction when things do work. The goal was to create a TabNavigator with a close icon so that tabs could be closed (pretty much like FireFox or Eclipse). First of all, check out the final version here. The source [...]