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The Flex Silk icon library is a SWC library that contains 1000 16x16 pixel icons for use in applications and web pages. This library is based on version 1.13 of the Silk icon library created by Mark James (www.famfamfam.com).
The reason the SWC library was created is as simple as the icons themselves – I needed a clean way to add the icons to my Flex projects without having to remember lots of file names and keep from cluttering up my source graphical asset folders. This library solves both problems.
Silk Icon Library Contents
License
The Flex Silk icon library is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License which basically means you are free to use, distribute, and/or modify the library as long as an attribution of some kind (usually a link back to the author’s Web site) without implying endorsement by the author.
By using this library, you are also bound to the original Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5 which is how the original Silk icon library was licensed by Mark James.
Flex Silk Icon Library by Ronald Ferguson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/.
Installation
After you have downloaded the Silk Icon Flex Library project archive at the bottom of the page, unzip the archive anywhere on your computer that you wish to store the source code and binary library. Next, open Flex Builder and right-click on the project that you wish to use the library in and select "Properties" from the popup context menu. When the properties window opens, select "Flex Build Path" in the left column then switch to the "Library Path" tab in the right column.
Flex project property window
Next, click the "Add SWC..." button and browse to the folder where you extracted the project archive. Navigate to the bin folder under the project folder and click on the FamFam_Silk_Icons.swc file then click the "Open" button. This will add the icon library to your Flex project and all you have to do is import the com.famfamfam.icons.SilkLibrary class file using ActionScript as you would any other class.
Import the SilkLibrary class into your MXML component or other ActionScript class files to use the library.
Run your application and you should have the Silk icons present in your application.
Download
The Flex Silk icon library is available for download as a Flex project which includes all of the necessary files to import and rebuild the SWC library should you add to or modify icons in the library. This download includes all 1000 icons in version 1.13 of the original Silk icon library.
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 FamFamFam Silk Icon Flex 3 Project | Flex project for the Silk icons SWC library. | 2167 Kb |