What is Chimp?
Chimp is a simple component for doing role based permissions in Flex. It uses metadata and a generic ArrayCollection of permission strings to display the proper components for a given set of user roles. You can find more info about the project at: http://www.gorillalogic.com/chimp.
Flex 4 Update
Shortly after I posted Chimp in 2009, Adobe began releasing early versions of Flex 4. Every since then, I am occasionally asked about Chimp’s Flex 4 compatibility. Well, I finally stopped procrastinating and posted a Flex 4 sample on the google code site. It’s a conversion of the existing Flex 3 sample. Everything worked with no updates to the existing Chimp swc.
Please let me know if you are having in Flex 4 specific issues.
Hi Jon,
Thank you for sharing the component.
I did an extension to the Chimp component, to load the permissions actions from a service instead of write those permissions as metadata in the source code. Maybe could be helpful for someone.
http://s2o-bcn.blogspot.com/2010/12/flex-chimp-is-permission-based.html
Hello, Jon!
Chimp’s action removeChild doesn’t work with spark Group component. Fails with exception in addChild.