please help me figure out how to do this

[Kuciwalker]

So I'm playing around with Adobe Air and Aptana, and I want to make a hexagonal interface element [actually several, tiled]. I really, really, really want it to be hexagonal. Sadly, Air does not support SVG, I don't know how to do Flex or Flash (and it looks like it would require redesigning everything else in the app), and reimplementing SVG on a canvas with an image map is not an appealing prospect. So. Is there some way to make a hexagonal div? If not, what's the best way to do this?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Illustrator should directly export to .fxg, which you should be able to bring into Air. You may still need to script in Flash/Flex on the way through though, I don't know. Maybe Fireworks would have a simple button-builder? In any case, I suspect you'll have to do the scripting outside of Air.

[Kuciwalker]

Air is the platform, not the development environment - I'm using Aptana. The problem is that I want to dynamically generate the hexes, dynamically alter color/border/etc, and have the elements be clickable without writing bounds checking. I've found a really awful CSS hack to make this work, but that means I still have to write bounds checking in my onClick()

[Obviously, this is for a game.]

[Hauldren Collider]

CSS hacks

You're using CSS with SVG or just (X)HTML?

[N35t0r]

(...)dynamically generate the hexes dynamically

Approved by the Department of Redundancy Department approves

[Provost Harrison]

How is that rock and roll lifestyle working out for you Kuci?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Air is the platform, not the development environment - I'm using Aptana. The problem is that I want to dynamically generate the hexes dynamically, dynamically alter color/border/etc, and have the elements be clickable without writing bounds checking. I've found a really awful CSS hack to make this work, but that means I still have to write bounds checking in my onClick()

[Obviously, this is for a game.]

Sorry; to clarify, I meant "in AIR" as being in Javascript/HTML, as opposed to Actionscript in Flex/Flash. (I know things are blurrier than that, it's just how I think of it...the few times I've ever thought about it.) I just meant that you should be able to do the buttons on their own and drop them in as a self-contained unit if you don't want to deal with Flash. But if you want them generated dynamically you'd need to get into heavier Actionscript than that.

[Kuciwalker]

HC: I'm making them like this: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/polygons.html

[Al B. Sure!]

How is that rock and roll lifestyle working out for you Kuci?

[Hauldren Collider]

HC: I'm making them like this: http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/polygons.html

what an AWFUL way to do it