[flexcoders] Re: Google AdSense
Subject: Re: Google AdSenseThanks Jester,Do you or anyone else have any recommendations on how this can occur in a Text component; i.e.adSense.htmlText = something and then have the_javascript_ that's required for AdSense included in thepage.Or am I mis-understanding what's possible here? Although there seems to be a small culture out therethat doesn't like Full Flash sites; my clients loveit.-r As JesterXL said, the TextArea will only display HTML and not _javascript_. I'm sure you could find a way to embed the _javascript_ in the surrounding HTML page and then find a way to link to it using the _javascript_/Flash Integrating kit on OSFlash.org, or use an IFrame as suggested. However, I'll speculate that this is not worth your effort to try in AdSense's current state. The ads are selected based on page content, and if Google can't figure out the content, a PublicService Announcement is dispalyed for which you get NO MONEY. While Google can index SWF's (try searching with filetype:swf), I think it's only indexing static content, and hopefully will index the MetaData that you can put into Version 8 swfs. But if your site is in Flex, I'm assuming it's fully dynamic content (or you've wasted an expensive server licence!), and Google won't know the content. Maybe someone can prove me wrong If you're determined to get ads into your flex container, I think a better approachh is to try to make contact directly with Google (maybe through their forums) to get them to develop an API that doesn't rely on _javascript_, and maybe where you can feed in keywords. Yahoo has an ad revenue sharing program too, and they seem to be a Flash friendly company, so you might try them as well. There's a blog by a Yahoo person (Justin Church I think?) who posted a while back about Yahoo opening up crossdomain files, etc specifically to help Flash. If you make any progress on getting access to an API, please let the list know. I'm sure there would be interest and help available in developing a standard Flex component once the backend side is available. Adam -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[flexcoders] Re: Using browsers to access mxml files
I use Firefox almost exclusively and do not have problems with accessing the stuff I do in Flex. If Internet Explorer (on the same machine as yur Firefox install) can access your Flex app and correctly display the SWF generated from the MXML file, your *server* setup should be correct. Thus, your problem is almost certain to be a configuration setting at the browser end. (There's a few intermediate possibilities like a firewall filtering on User-Agent type, etc, but the technical challenge to set these up is probably beyond what you'd normally encounter, so ignore for now). A common problem that I've seen with Firefox is that it's *too easy* to install Extensions, with Flash-blockers and pop-up-blockers being common. These might result in the blank screen you emailed about earlier. It shouldn't be a problem if you downloaded firefox from the official www.getfiorefox.com site, but I know of at least one site which redistributes a modified version of Firefox with a Flash blocker preinstalled. In Firefox, go to Tools Extensions and Uninstall anything that might be the culprit. Alternatively, uninstall Firefox and try again :) If this doesn't fix your problem, you'll need to provide much more detailed information to the list to get a reasonable response. Otherwise we're just guessing. Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 23:15:57 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using browsers to access mxml files Any reason why a browser would have problerms accessing an mxml file I use firefox and have had problems for some odd reason for the past few days. I can use Internet Explorer fine but I have heard bad things about Internet Explorer and have heard a lot of great things about Firefox as far as security. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[flexcoders] Re: More Competition
Andy, I haven't used the SnappMX product, but I imagine that you can use one of the OpenSource implementations of the AMF gateway: AMFPHP (php), OpenAMF (Java), and I seem to recall seeing a .net version too once. There's a python alpha, and the format is somewhat documented by these OSS efforts, so you could rewrite in the language of your choice :) The quote you reference is probably just out of context. My reason to not look at SnappMX (or Lazlo for that matter) is that every XML based implementation for a UI seems to be creating its own very different dialect. Not very good if you want to repurpose UI later. If someone wrote a SWF generator that used either XUL (Mozilla's dialect) or MXML, I'd be much happier. At least the XAMALON effort is using the M$ dialect, which will have a high uptake. Adam Message: 1 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:39:00 -0500 From: Andy Goodfellow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More Competition I went to download the trial and saw this at the bottom: Snapp MX uses a Flash Remoting Gateway to communicate with web services. If you do not have this product, a trial version can be obtained from Macromedia. So much for this quote from the press release, For the first time, developers can learn and use one tool to create web-based business systems for all common environments. With Snapp MX, they are no longer tethered or restricted to a specific language and/or platform. On 5/4/05, sreejithunni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Internet Application Development Propelled Into High Gear ... http://newsroom.eworldwire.com/view_release.php?id=11933 ... After extensive testing over two months on Macromedia's Flex(TM), Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo(TM) and Snapp MX, it ultimately selected Snapp MX. ... Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] Digest Number 679
Subject: Re: Flex 1.5 price Matt Horn wrote: An old dutch saying : Prices can only go down... Laszo/BackBase time?? Was this before or after the tulip craze? :) You can make a joke off this but i think that raising the price for your licenses more than 100% is not the smartest thing to do! It can be actually cheaper for the 4 CPU License with Gold Support but i am loosing a customer here ;-(( I certainly recognize that Flex is mainly targetted at the enterprise. However, Flex-style UI creation would have the potential for a much larger following if a reasonably priced option was available for one-off type work by independant developers or small businesses. There's a huge gap between a NCL and someone that has a 4-way server! Think of the same needs being met by someone buying the Standard cversion of CF, not everyone needs the feature set of Enterprise. I'd still like to see a *standalone compiler version* as opposed to the server version. Call it Flex-lite if you will, and price it competitively with other standalone compiler technologies. Adam Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: Integrating with Python
Thanks Manish. Running it as an HTTPService or as a CGI would seem to be the easiest, and I'll give it a try. I had been thinking in terms of RemoteObject and hence my uncertainty on how to proceed, but HTTPService sure looks easier to implement from what I'm starting with. From: Manish Jethani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Integrating with Python dunwerkin wrote: Can anyone point me towards an example integrating Flex with Python? I have existing Python classes, etc that I hope to reuse so that I can feed in a data structure coming from a Flex front end and get back a new data structure to send to Flex for visualization. I'm not sure if I need to dive into learning how Jython works, or if there is a simpler way I'm missing. If the Jython route is recommended, any links would be great. You could set up your Python modules as services: 1. Web service on Tomcat? 2. Simple CGI script that returns data in XML format. This can be accessed from Flex using HTTPService. You could also try wrapping your Python module into Java using Jython, and then access it using RemoteObject from Flex. I'd go for the service way (HTTPService to keep it simple). Flex can also send data to your Python module via the CGI script in XML format (using HTTP POST?) or as URL parameters (HTTP GET). Manish
Integrating with Python
Can anyone point me towards an example integrating Flex with Python? I have existing Python classes, etc that I hope to reuse so that I can feed in a data structure coming from a Flex front end and get back a new data structure to send to Flex for visualization. I'm not sure if I need to dive into learning how Jython works, or if there is a simpler way I'm missing. If the Jython route is recommended, any links would be great. If it matters, my development version of Flex is currently running on JRun integrated, but I'm considering switching it to Tomcat. The server runs Apache 2, with PHP 4.3, and Python2.4 works fine for CGI stuff.
DW Builder
I was a actually a little disappointed to see that there wasn't at least an *option* to better separate the usage of the two products. I use DW for most things, and dabble in FB when I have time to play with Flex. Since they seem to maintain a common set of site definition files, and were intially fighting over file associations, it was rather frustrating. Particularly since FB seems slow relative to DW. My ideal setup would be: Blend the FB features into DW as simply another server model. Second choice: Give me the option to define sites in FB that are for my Flex directory only, and not show me other unrelated sites defined in DW (and vice-versa), but allow for transfer of the site configuration back and forth for cases where there is a mix of MXML with something else. But before both of these changes, I'd rather see *true* integration with source control systems like CVS and SVN, and not the current check-in/out method. All MACR products :) Adam ___ From: John C. Bland II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DW Builder You guys who use DW (Dreamweaver) for development and now Builder (Flex Builder) for Flex: Can you use both of them at the same time? I can't seem to get it working. Have you dumped DW to use only Builder or do you use DW for Flex dev too? Just curious...
