“The score is now Adobe one, Macromedia one, customers zero,” said Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO, Macromedia. “Macromedia is absolutely committed to defending the right to innovate.”
I think that just about sums it up.
Joey Lott sent the following information to me.
When using ServerSide ActionScript there is an object available called CF with includes methods to make database queries and http requests. However, it also contains a number of other properties and methods which are undocumented, but could prove to be useful. Remember though, use undocumented features at your own risk as they may be changed or removed in future versions of the product.
Below is some code that shows how to find all of the properties and methods of the CF object on the server.
Wired.com has an article up today discussing the Macromedia weblogs. Myself, Branden Hall, and Dave Winer are all quoted, and over all i think that it covers exactly why we are doing this. It allows us to communicate faster and more efficiently with our community.
It was John Dowdell who really drove the idea internally at Macromedia. Also, David Burrows’ FlashBlog really helped me to realize how useful a tool the weblogs could be.
papaya nirvana posted a couple of questions on the were-here.com forums for the Flash product team. I asked Jeremy Clark, and Troy Evans from the Flash team to answer them.
You can read the questions and responses here.
I am still seeing a lot of confusion over this issue, so i thought i would try to clarify. You can no longer use eval() on the left side of a statement. However, this only applies when publishing as a Flash 6 or greater SWF. This change was made in to be more consistent with ECMA-262.
Couple of points:
Here are links to technotes that describe the issue:
I am not sure when this went live, but just noticed that we have a new technote that lists and describes the top 5 Flash MX topics. Topics include Shared Objects, Local Connection, Unicode support and FS Command exec issues.
These questions come up often within the community, so you might want to check them out and see if they address any problems you have been having.
Below are a couple of questions posted on the were-here forums for the Flash product team. You can view the original thread here. I asked Jeremy Clark, and Troy Evans to respond to the questions.
Jeremy is a product Manager for the Macromedia Flash Authoring tool, and Troy is the product manager for the Macromedia Flash player.
Note : Due to legal restrains, Macromedia cannot comment on lawsuits. Because of this, we were not able to address a few of the original questions.
Here is the order in which Flash Remoting looks for server side code when a request is made from Flash MX to the server via Flash Remoting. Note that this order only applies when using ColdFusion MX:
I will post the order for other server when they become available.
[thanks sean neville]
This is a simple example that shows how to make a proxy using Flash Remoting and ServerSide ActionScript. The proxy will allow you to load XML and other data into Flash from domains other that the one the Flash movie was loaded from.
Create a file called Proxy.asr in the
Add the following code the Proxy.asr file"
As you may or may not know, this year is Macromedia’s 10th birthday. In celebration, i did a quick search to see what information i could find on the history of Macromedia and Flash. Here is what i found:
I also thought that Flash developers might be interesting in seeing some pictures of Macromedia headquarters, the Flash Team offices, and some of the members of the Flash Team.
