This tutorial demonstrates a simple example of integrating Radio with Macromedia Flash MX.
If you have visited this site before, you may or may not have noticed that the heading at the top of all of my pages is actually a Flash 6 movie. The movie displays the title (left), data from the Macromedia XML Resource Feed (right), and the date that the site was last updated (center). The last updated information actually comes from a Radio macro, and is a good example of a simple way to integrate data from Radio within a Macromedia Flash 6 movie.
If you happen to be in Toronto this Sunday, May 4, you might want to consider dropping by CFNorth. I will be speaking about using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX.
John Dowdell gives a good summary of the first week of Macromedia MX. He mentions community sites, heavy download demand, problems that arose, and FlashRemoting.
He also mentions that he is getting a lot of traffic from google for terms such as macromedia Flash MX crack, and Dreamweaver MX crack. To quote John:
I’m still perplexed at the underlying psychological need to crack a preview release which is already free…
I have seen a couple of threads about users on Windows having to reboot after installing the Flash Player 6 in order for the player to be updated. This is not new to Flash 6, and is actually an issue with all ActiveX controls (and not specific to the Flash player).
To find our more information, we have a technote on the issue (notice the date on the technote).
This issue is also covered in the: Macromedia Flash Player Support FAQ
Macromedia released a press release concerning the end of the first part of the Macromedia / Adobe lawsuit.
You can also find some interesting comments on the decision at slashdot.
Phillip Torrone is doing a Flash Enabled pin-up countdown. Each day he has a new pin-up of a device running Flash. (today is day 3, the first day was a 3com Audrey, and yesterday was a bunch of PocketPCs).
I have added the ability to allow users to subscribe to mesh on MX. Simply enter your email address in the form under the links on the right. Once a day you will receive an e-mail with a summary of the previous day’s posts.
Since i sometimes use this to make announcements, its a good way to make sure you don’t miss any Flash related news from Macromedia.
The subscription system is run (for free) by bloglet.
Branden Hall and FigLeaf software have set up a new mailing list about Flash Remoting. Of course, Branden and FigLeaf also run the FlashCoders list, so chances are this new list will be a good resource.
More info here.
Well, after 24 hours, we are finally back up. Radio had some serious problems which knocked the site offline for a while, and then prevented me from updating it. I am looking for some alternative hosting solutions, so we may be moving soon.
Yesterday, Jeremy Allaire responded to some comments by Dave Winer. You can read Jeremy’s response here.
Btw, we released a new Flash player yesterday, read about it here.
Update : Big thanks to Dave and crew for all of the work they put in to get things back up. Dave, one suggestion though if this happens again, forget XML-RPC, you need duck tape.
