Comments on: What Content do you want to see on the next DRK?

By: Phillip R. Cargo

Phillip R. Cargo — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 01:49:37 +0000

Templates for Extended the Components.

Extending Flash components is time consuming. It would be nice if when someone release a component they too would release a template that extends it.

I am being to wonder if FRichTextEditorClass can even be extended, possibly due to where the class is lives (_global).

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 02:18:24 +0000

I’d like to second a previous person’s request for a component that can render mathml. Such a component would definitely enhance Flash’s usefulness as an eLearning tool. (Note that you can use a relatively inexpensive program like Math Type to generate the mathml from equations.)

By: Raz-L

Raz-L — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 23:28:47 +0000

Hi, for the next DRK, I wish you rewrite almost every previous flash components, to add more component parameters and to allow more precise skinning and layouting.
Let’s take the ‘media components’ for example, it works if you don’t touch it, but don’t even think to move a button or something without changing 60 lines of code.
I think a lot of these components should be completely rewrited or at least modified, to allow designers to easily “skin” them.
There are other points like why isn’t the scrollbar width modifiable ?
I don’t see the point of a component, if no one is able to use it, because it’s limited and unskinnable

One other suggestion : a “preload” component with a loading bar, that could be easily used and skinned (yeah I know, again, but it’s important), and that would load MP3s, JPGs or videos.
Go tell a basic designer he got to load an external JPG and you’ll get the point ;)

And come on, can’t you (I say you, but I mean MM) lower the price or making them free ?
Doesn’t MM gets enough money to pay component developers ?
It kills me to pay so much for 1 almost usefull and 2 flash unusefull components per DRK. We’re not all part of a big company…

my 2 cents

By: dsharpe

dsharpe — Wed, 26 Feb 2003 04:42:59 +0000

I am not sure this is the proper place to post, but I would like to see a highly advanced and complete event calendar. Possibly a chapter to publish in Macromedia’s – Flash MX Creating Dynamic Applications – book. I think an excellent example, that would convert well to Flash would be a Flash web enabled version of Apple’s iCal, at least the general idea of pulling in multiple calendars, and displaying in an easy to understand interface.

I have worked on something like this, but it is rather complex. Event calendars seem to be sticky subjects.

By: tomo_atlacatl

tomo_atlacatl — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:02:25 +0000

I like the text editor from the 2nd cd, a more robust editor would really make it to a lot of my studen’ts shelves. An editor with image insertion would be big. Just a thought.

By: William Dent

William Dent — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 17:47:28 +0000

1)Charting Components that allow multiple dataproviders which would allow comparisons on the same chart

2)Uploading of files to server using Flash (might require changes to flash player). This has stopped me from building complete Flash apps (RIA). I always have to go back to javascript and html.

By: Nick Crossland

Nick Crossland — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:05:00 +0000

Some CSS tools for Dreamweaver – so if you change a class name, it updates throughout the site like the file manager (without having to resort to find and replace) – and a CSS checker (like the link checker) that will find broken or orphan classes. Maybe this is a DWMX2 feature request, rather than an add on?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:33:15 +0000

A true menu device (like standard menu bars at tops of apps). Along with alt-keys, separators etc.

By: Mike Hazard

Mike Hazard — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:46:13 +0000

The teaser application mentioned in your Des/Dev article:

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/subscriptions/articles/mchambers_devnet.html

Any information on educational pricing for DevNet?

Thanks,

mike

By: Mark Coates

Mark Coates — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:01:41 +0000

I would agree with several ideas here.

1) Database examples
2) More Remoting examples (using .NET and ColdFusion)
3) Maybe a component that allows the creation of a flash-accessible recordset using the RecordSet object and some easily modifiable code for connecting to the DB (.NET and CF)
4) and others, but these 3 most importantly…

I am constantly amazed by your products. Keep up the great work!

Cheers,

Mark Coates
Managing Member
Blurr Designs, LLC