Josh Dura has made a post asking what type of apps / content do developers want to see on DRK 6.

Head over to Josh’s weblog and post your suggestions.

Sorry I haven’t posted in a couple of days. I have been pretty swamped working on a couple of items at work.

There has been a lot of stuff going on over the past couple of days, so I am going to try to catch up in one big post.

Derek Stottlemyer has posted a beta version of his TabSMART Central application which helps teach how to play the guitar.

Ted Patrick has released a beta version of some really cool apps that allow you to make and share icons for Flash applications. You can find more information on Icon Pro and Icon Explorer here.

Vera Fleischer has posted some simple sample code that shows a basic Central application. Among other things, it demonstrates how to create a pod, agent and application, how to use LCService to manage communications, how to manage pods, and how to Blast data between applications.

This is a very good example providing all of the basics of a Central application.

You can view the post, and download the code here.

The Flash Team is doing a survey looking for feedback on how developers use the help system in Flash MX 2004.

You can take the survey here.

Ethan Malasky has posted some information on how to use ActionScript 2.0 to create Central applications.

We are working on creating intrinsic class files for Central, but until they are ready, this will allow you to create Central applications using ActionScript 2.0.

You can read the entire post here.

The single most requested feature for Central has been File I/O support. So, how would you want File I/O implemented in Central? What would you use it for? What features / abilities do you want?

How would you rank the following in order of importance / usefulness?

• (A) Uploading/downloading files from a server.
• (B) Having a folder on the user’s computer where apps could save or open files, without querying the user.
• (C) Being able to open or save files from/to arbitrary locations on the user’s computer, using file dialogs.
• (D) Being able to create new files from arbitrary data in your app. Which files types would be useful here: text, xml, jpeg, etc.?
• (E) Being able to open, edit and save existing files. Again, which file types?

Post your feedback in the comments section.

Digital Media Minute just posted a link to the Regular Expression Library which is a repository of Regular Expression expressions (currently with over 450 entries).

This is a useful resource if your are developing applications for Central, as Central has built in support for regular expressions. Of course, it is also useful if you are using one of the community developed Flash regular expression libraries.

You can view the website here.

You can find some more information on Regular Expressions in Central here and here.

The Central Team is doing a survey and looking for input about Macromedia Central.

Christian Cantrell has posted a couple of examples showing how to use Central’s built in Regular Expression API.

Examples include matching:

• A valid URL
• The title tag from an HTML page
• Alphanumeric Characters

You can view the entire post here.

If you have any other good Regular Expression recipes, post them at Christian’s weblog.

I just noticed that we released a technote describing some undocumented methods of the MDialogBox component included with the Central SDK.

The updated methods include:

• MDialogBox.doOpen()
• MDialogBox.setIsModal()
• MDialogBox.doClose()
• MDialogBox.configureModalDialog()

You can read the entire technote here.

FYI, we are also writing a more extensive article for the Central DevNet center on how to use the component.