Mike Chambers: Flash MX Resources

New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:57:35 GMT

Lots of new Flash MX content and resources today at the Macromedia Designer and Developers Center:

Make sure to check out the Advanced Drawing Methods article written by Ric Ewing. It has some really useful ActionScript libraries for using the drawing API.

Flash and Unicode Resources

Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:56:45 GMT

OK. Things are a little slow today, so I thought I would put together a list of all of the Flash and Unicode resources I could find. Here is what I came up with:

If you know of any resources, articles or tutorials that I missed, please post them in the comments.

New Flash MX / Flash Remoting Case Study

Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:19:17 GMT

We have a new Macromedia Flash showcase / case study online today. This one discusses the Blackboard user management system.

There are actually quite a few tutorials / articles on this application on the Designer and Developer center:

You can find more info here, here and here.

New Flash MX Content at Macromedia.com

Tue, 17 Sep 2002 04:04:06 GMT

Yes, its time once again for new content at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. This week brings a lot of new Flash MX Content.

Creating your First Flash Communication Server Application : Giacomo Guilizzoni
Creating a Macromedia Flash Component : Jonathan Kaye
How to create Help files for Custom Components : Gunnay, Williams
Developer Resource Kit Preview : Using The Stock Services Library : Mike Chambers
Using Macromedia Flash for the Pocket PC to dial the Pocket PC Phone Edition : Phillip Torrone
Flash Remoting Live Docs
Using Macromedia Flash for Multilingual Authoring
Tip of the Week : Connecting your Macromedia Flash MX forms to ColdFusion
JD's Forum : A Step back can let you see where you are going : John Dowdell
Tips for Deploying Video in Macromedia Flash MX : Tinic Uro

One thing to note, is that we have made the Flash Remoting Documentation available under our livedocs system, which is similar to the PHP documentation at php.net.

Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center

Tue, 09 Jul 2002 05:28:27 GMT

Lots of new Resource at macromedia.com today. Today we premier the Flash Communication Server Application Development center, and thus have tons of resources on using the new server.

New Mobile Development Center at Macromedia.com

Tue, 02 Jul 2002 13:27:32 GMT

This week we are premiering the Mobile Development Center at the Macromedia Designer and Developer Center. That means there is tons of new content and resources at macromedia.com.

New Flash MX Resources at Macromedia.com

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 06:02:43 GMT

In addition to the all of of content related to the Pet Market Blueprint application, we have also released a ton of additional Flash MX content and resources at the Macromedia Flash MX Application Development Center. I have included the Flash specific articles from the Pet Market Blueprint application center.

Macromedia Blueprint Application Center : Pet Market

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 05:36:01 GMT

Macromedia has released the Macromedia MX Pet Market Blueprint Application and Center. The Pet Market Blueprint application is an online store for a fictional pet retailer similar to the Java™ Pet Store released by Sun and the Microsoft .NET Pet Shop.

Overview

Usability

Development Process

Check out the application and let us know you comments, questions and suggestions by posting them in the forum, or through the feedback form.

Everything you ever wanted to know about components (but were afraid to ask)

Wed, 05 Jun 2002 15:37:34 GMT

Want to learn about components? Want to learn everything about components? Below is a list of some of the best, and most useful articles, tutorials and resources covering all aspects of using, creating and understand components.

Learn about components

Creating Flash MX Components : Jonathan Kaye
Custom UI's and Listeners
Dynamically Attaching Components : Guy Watson
Extending Components : Customizing the list box component : Nigel Pegg
Pixel Fonts in List / Combo Boxes : Branden Hall
Reusing ProgressBar Components : Branden Hall
Stretchy Components : Branden Hall
Custom Symbols in ListBox Components : Branden Hall
Your Friend the Component : Branden Hall
Extending Components in Flash MX : Greg Burch

Talk about components

Argue about components

Download Components

Server Side ActionScript Tutorial

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:22:42 GMT

There is a new tutorial on Server Side ActionScript at Macromedia.com. Here is the description:

Building a Database Query Application with Server-Side ActionScript
In this module, you can learn how to build an application that searches a database using parameters provided by the user and displays the results in a rich Macromedia Flash user interface. It demonstrates two key features of ColdFusion MX: the built-in Macromedia Flash Remoting service and new support for Server-side ActionScript.

This was written by Christian Cantrell who will be speaking about Flash Remoting at FlashForward NYC.

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:25:02 GMT

New Flash MX Resources at Macromedia.com

If you have stopped by Macromedia.com today, you probably noticed that we made some new products announcements for ColdFusion MX, Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX. Don't worry though, we still have a lot of new Flash related resources at the Site:

----------- Developer Centers ---------------

Macromedia Flash MX Application Developer Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/

Macromedia ColdFusion MX Application Developer Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/

---------- New Technology : Flash Remoting --------------------

Macromedia Flash Remoting
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flashremoting/

---------- New Tutorials, Articles, Columns, Resources --------

Download Macromedia Studio MX Preview Release Software
http://www.macromedia.com/go/mxstudio_trial

Getting Started with ColdFusion MX and Flash Remoting : Mike Chambers
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/startremoting.html

Connecting ColdFusion MX and Macromedia MX : Kevin Towes
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/remoting.html

Macromedia MX: Components and Web Services : Jeremy Allaire
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/whitepapers/components_ws.pdf

Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect: The Story Behind Macromedia Studio MX
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/studio/articles/smx.html

JD's Forum : Macromedia MX, Too good to be true? : John Dowdell
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/

Macromedia MX : The future is already here : Tom Hale
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/logged_in/

Trio Motor Company Sample Applications (multiple tutorials)
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/trio/

Macromedia Flash MX Accessibility
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flash/

Precision drawing with Macromedia Flash MX and Freehand : Bently Wolfe
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/studio/articles/fmx_fh_integration.html

Using Java and J2EE Elements in a ColdFusion MX Application : Terry Ford
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/java.html