We have created two new forums at Macromedia.com:
Flash Data Integration : Discuss the Data Connection Kit and Flash / Data Integration.
Macromedia Central : Discuss Macromedia Central.
These are great resources for finding out more information about these new technologies.
Just a quick reminder that the HTML documentation for the Flash UI Component set 5 from DevNet Resource Kit Volume 3 is available on-line.
Flash UI Component Set 5 includes the following components:
The complete documentation includes:
You can view the documentation here.
You can find more info about DRK 3 here.
One of the requests that I got for the Google search application that Josh Dura and I have been working on, is to give the user the option to open links in a new window. This makes sense, since if you leave the page, the Flash application looses its state. Well, I added an option in the settings panel to always open links in a new window, but I decided to also add support for SHIFT or CTRL clicking a link to open it in a new window (since a lot of people do this out of habit now.)
Here is a page with links to resources and techniques for creating a chat with support for emoticon icons / images.
You can view the page here.
[via chattyfig FlashCom]
I have made some updates and changes to the GoogleSearch application that Josh Dura and I have been working on. Thanks for all of the feedback thus far.
Here is a list of changes / updates:
You can view the application here.
Shawn Pucknell has started a thread at Flash in TO with a list of presentations and notes from the Flash In The Can conference which have been posted online.
Notes posted thus far include those from Robert Penner, Colin Moock, Grant Skinner, Josh David and Kevin Towes.
You can view the post here.
[via FlashCoders]
Wow. We were really blown away by the response to the DRK ad spoof contest. The creativity of some of the entries was simply amazing. So much so, that we decided to pick three winners instead of one.
And the winners are (in no particular order):
Each winner will receive a copy of the DevNet Resource Kit Volume 3 (chocked full of component and sample app goodness).
The Macromedia Flash MX Data Connection Kit is now available on the Macromedia on-line store. What is the Data Connection Kit you ask? It provides prebuilt connections to web services, XML data, databases, and application servers so you can easily access, save, and display data in Macromedia Flash MX.
You can find more information on the Data Connection Kit here.
You can buy the Data Connection Kit here.
We have chosen some winners for the DRK 3 Ad spoof contest. Yes, I said winners (plural). We had so many great submissions that we decided to give away 3 copies of DRK 3. We have picked two winners already, but want to let the community vote on the third winner from the runners up.
Here are the candidates:
To vote, send an e-mail to mesh@macromedia.com with the name of the submission that you are voting for. Voting closes on April 30, 2003 at 11:59 PM EST.
Josh Dura and and I have been playing around with the Google Web Service API. We have put together a simple Flash based application that allows you to search google. It is not 100% complete, but we though we would post it to let people check out (and hopefully give us some ideas for features).
The application uses the GoogleService ActionScript Library, components from DRK 3, and Flash Remoting.
Update [May, 5 2003] : A new version of the application was uploaded. You can see a list of changes here.
