Peter Hall has put together a very cool example of the 3D Pie Chart component from the Flash Charting Components Set 2 on DRK 4.
He has used the extrude depth of the pie chart to display additional information, and has added some code so that the chart morphs between data sets.
You can check out the example here.
You can find more information on the Charting Component Set 2 here.
The title says it all. What do you want to know about Macromedia Central? Post your questions in the comments section.
Update: We you can see a new Central screen shot at the following sites:
You can find a ton of additional information at the Macromedia Central Development Center.
The Macromedia DevNet center has just published an article I wrote that discusses embedding the Flash player within Windows applications using C#.
The article is based on the Stock Charting Windows application which is included on DRK 4. The application uses the line chart component from the Flash Charting Component Set 2 to chart historical stock data within the windows app.
You can read the entire article here.
You may have noticed the online poll on the right of the page. This is actually the Flash interface to the Pollster sample application included on DRK 4.
Pollster includes the following:
The Poll has quite a few features including:
The Flash interface uses the Pie Chart component from the Flash Charting Components Set 2, also included on DRK 4.
The DevNet Resource Kit Volume 4 (DRK 4) is now available for for DevNet Essentials subscribers and for individual purchase ($99). Yes, you heard that right, no more three months before you can buy it individually.
This DRK is probably our most comprehensive yet, with over 25 new components, extensions, sample applications, graphic libraries and other resources.
You can see a complete list of content here.
Here are some of the highlights:
I just finished reading this article on SVG over at XML.com, and came across this quote:
Apple used something very close to SVG for their recently released presentation software. Once again, this is further evidence that SVG has the potential to go places that Flash will not.
So, let me get this straight. Apple uses a format that is “very close” to SVG but is not SVG (doesn’t that describe every vector based format that exists?), and this is an indication that SVG will go places that Flash cannot????
I have started to see some questions and comments from people who noticed that Contribute 2.0 will include a pilot of Product Activation. We are well aware that this is a potentially very heated issue, and thus have spent a lot of time, effort and resources making sure that it works well and is unobtrusive. We are also trying to be as forthcoming with information as possible, and thus have posted a ton of information about activation on our site.
At FlashForward last week, I gave a sneak peak of some of the content on DRK 4 (due out shortly). One of the things I showed was a polling sample application, that uses Flash as the interface.
Well, here is your chance to check it out.
This is a quick test of the poll (and is not the final version). If you run into any problems or have any suggestions, post them in the comments.
Today we announced Contribute 2.0, which among other things has support for OSX and FlashPaper.
What is FlashPaper you ask? From the website:
Macromedia FlashPaper printer driver technology for Windows 2000 and XP lets Contribute 2 customers transform any printable document into a compact, web-friendly Macromedia Flash format and then embed the document as an intrinsic part of a web page. The end result is an unbeatable document viewing experience for website visitors.
We have just launched a new affiliate program that allows you to make money by referring sales from your website. This is similar to other affiliate programs, and allows you to make some money for stuff that you may already be doing (referring people to macromedia.com).
You can find more information on the program, as well as sign up at:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/sales/affiliates/
Currently the program only applies to Contribute and Studio MX, but we will be adding more products in the future.
