Very good to change the text color and background. Congratulations !

Jake I might have a decent-sized project for you revolving around this if you want it. It would likely be very ongoing (i.e. several hours of work each month) for quite some time. I'll shoot you an email soon.

Why not use the category for the catalog to make a tag cloud/categories? (make it more web 2.0!)

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm

The icons themselves are a simple component based on the Box container element. In the box is just an Image and a Text element.

The tricky part was that the Grid doesn't support drag-drop out the box, so all the events need custom handlers. Not too tricky though.

Off to look at code bubbles now...

I believe iNotes can get the unread count of your mail file, maybe someone has used the iNotes functions to determine the unread counnt of a database?

Maybe an RSS feed for each database would serve the same purpose of telling the user that they have documents to read.

The thing that makes this so cool is only the Notes Workspace seems to have ever gotten that drag and drop has intrinsic value in that it allows us to impart meaning to icons beyond their face value based on how we arrange them. You see drag - drop as a feature in a lot of places, but how many apps appear to get this higher use that goes beyond just the data on the screen?

On that meme... have you checked out Code Bubbles? Looks promising - they clearly get drag and drop.

http://www.clientgenie.com

With this software you could access the workspace of all Notes users via webbrowser and open the databases from there. It worked somehow using xml but I forgot the name of the software. I think we were the largest client of the software and somehow the company disappeared during the project.

But this software was really cool, maybe one of the fellow readers of your's remebers its name? I think it was Austrian.

Although your flex workspace really looks way better ;-)

Steve Castledine said he liked it. That'll do for me.

See if you guess what the underlying Flex components being used are Jerry.

Being visual I immediately like the ability to set a wallpaper. If we stare at it all day - why oh why, IBM, have we never had this option!?

Well done Jake. I wonder what that does for the CAL, if you'll get a letter of offer from IBM or a letter of cease and desist. The former I would hope. "ClientAnywhere".

You have created something really great here....

PLEASE!!!!