Re: [flexcoders] How to install multiple Flash Player versions?
Brett Palmer wrote: I'm trying to profile a flex application. What is the easiest way to run and install multiple Flash player versions? I'm interested in running Flash 7, Flash 7 debug, and Flash 8. Any particular browser and operating system? (I think there's a plugin-switching extension for Firefox now... for IE/Win, it's extended by system-level extensions which can be trickier to replace on the fly.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h5dfatm/M=362335.6886445.7839731.1510227/D=groups/S=1705007207:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124226638/A=2894361/R=0/SIG=13jmebhbo/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/education/digitaldivide/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide!/a./font ~- -- 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 * 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] flex and third party search engines
Nithya R wrote: i would like to know if flex supports any third party search engines like mondosearch etc... .net supports mondosearch , likewise what are the search engines that flex supports... When you say support, what do you mean? I think Matt may have read this as is static text in a Flex SWF read by search engines, and results are mixed here... some engines definitely read it, as you can prove at Google by searching on checkout filetype:swf or similar terms. But if you're looking to offer local search within your own work, then a lot depends on whether your text is stored in the SWF or in a database or web service, what type of interface you'd like to display results in, etc. Or if you're looking to issue a standard web search from within a Flex presentation, then that can be as easy as constructing an URL. When you say support, what do you mean? If you'd like to offer a search form within your presentation, then what would you like it to search...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] flex and third party search engines[john dowdell.. anybody...]
Nithya R wrote: say i have a flex site for online shopping... i need a search feature for the products... say i type the product name and it should fetch me the details about the product and all the links associated to it... so for this i need a search engine to be integrated with the flex site... how can i do this? Well, if the details are regular HTML pages then it's usually easy to call up a regular websearch engine to get to that page... a button can go to http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amystore.com+; with your search terms after, for instance. But if the data you want to return is in a database rather than a series of HTML files, then you'd submit a query to your database to get the info you're seeking, then display it in whichever way your project desires. I'm not sure I could answer, because a lot depends on where the data is, when it gets turned into a display, how you'd like to search... different projects seem like they'd pursue different paths here...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Will browsers support FlashPlayer in the future?
Aldo Bucchi wrote: Is there a chance that any major browser might simply cut support for the Flash Player Plugin at some point? Anything's possible, but I do know that daily adoption of new Macromedia Flash Player greatly outweighs the new adoption of any browser or operating system. Here's the list of current distribution partners: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/partners/ Here's a recent comparison of XP adoption rates: http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_XP_Adoption_Rates_Slow/1118943913 Summary: In June05 WinXP had risen to 38% of enterprise use, compared to 48% for Win2000, in the years after XP's release in 2001. (In comparison, Macromedia Flash Player has historically hit 80% adoption within a year, and will likely quicken in the future with new auto-update.) Being included in default OS and browser installations is great, naturally, but consumers update their Flash capabilities much more quickly than they update their browsing or system capabilities. Do you feel that this information will be useful for your client...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Manipulating SVG
Dave H wrote: Can anyone point me to any useful resources on manipulating SVG from within Flex? I'd like to be able to highlight different parts of an image at the click of a button. This is interesting. I was hoping someone else had a better answer than what I've currently got, but didn't want to leave it unanswered too. Let me make sure I'm correctly understanding what you'd like to do... it seems like there's some external mapping source which can give you a series of irregular polygons, with stroke/fill colors, in SVG format. You'd like these to display in the final SWF delivered to the audience, and would like to be able to programmatically change stroke/fill colors in response to user activity. Am I seeing the problem correctly here? If so, then I see two other possible paths, in addition to the mx:Image/ path you mentioned, but I'm not sure which of these are viable paths, and hope that other people can expand on these. 1) Use a standalone SVG-SWF serverside utility to turn the mapping service's output into something very easily usable by the Macromedia Flash Player clientside renderer. (Some exist, but it would take some research to learn how closely current candidates match this project's needs.) 2) Have the Flex server request and translate the SVG data into the final SWF, where each polygon is still individually addressable. (Other people on this list know more than me here.) 3) Have the Macromedia Flash Player request the raw SVG data, and use procedural drawing to render and then manipulate the polygons. (ActionScript and the Drawing API have been used to render basic SVG files before... a search term wahlers triolo svg pulls up citations.) Are any of the above paths of interest...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] AJAX vs Flex whitepaper?? anyone??
Aldo Bucchi wrote: I'm looking for a business and technical level whitepaper that develops on the differences and similarities between flex and AJAX. It is for a customer that is evaluating both techs for a series of applications. Whitepapers usually espouse a point of view, so a lot would depend on the point of view you'd like to espouse. ;-) (I don't recall a Macromedia-authored whitepaper on the subject, and I'd be a little leery of one if so... whenever a vendor discusses Someone Else's Technology there's usually significant pushback, as the example cited here clearly shows: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/10/comparing_web_t.cfm ) Do you know what types of questions the client has, what concerns they have? Focusing on their immediate needs may be more targeted than looking for one of potentially scores of general papers out there. (For instance, some good tacks are to see what types of data they'd want to transfer without resending the HTML page, whether images, or text, or something more... which browsers the audience currently uses and how many would have to be either abandoned or persuaded to use a different browser... whether it's one-shot development or whether the project might have to be maintained and upgraded in the future... these are some of the criteria on which technologies can vary.) Of course, if you've got a CIO who says Let's use X! without first analyzing and being able to succinctly describe the problem, then that's usually a bit of a mess from the start, eh...? ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Big problems with SBC Yahoo Browser
TIP: Hit New Message when you want to start a new message, then paste the mailing list address in. (When you hit Reply while reading Matt's message, you got hidden within that thread about minutes-long scripting routines.) Robert Thompson wrote: Since there are some smart guys from Macrmedia on here I wanted to just ask if they've heard any complaints about Flash Player 8 not working in SBC Yahoo Browser? I haven't. I did a quick web search, but the Yahoo help section doesn't say which browser it's built upon, nor list anything quickly visible about Netscape Plugins (or ActiveX Controls, if based on IE/Win). Best troubleshooting: Do the usual some-or-all-sites test (if they can see other SWF but not your SWF that's a clue)... after that it would be researching just what the SBC Yahoo Browser actually is, and what it can do. (I just expanded my websearches from Yahoo to the net at large, and some users report that it is built upon IE/Win, which raises the possibilities of XP SP2 controls, popup window controls, or general permissions issues for new installs... try the some or all browsers test to see if your site works in IE/Win on their machine, etc.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] PDA
Howard, Dave wrote: has anyone successfully depolyed a Flex 2 app to a PDA running Pocket PC? Can this be done? Not yet. The alpha Flex 2 uses the alpha Macromedia Flash Player 8.5 -- even desktop browsers aren't at this level of support yet. Pocket devices are usually a few versions back: http://www.macromedia.com/mobile/supported_devices/pda.html jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Flash vunerability
Jonathan Miranda wrote: Anyone know if this affects Flash player 8.5 beta? http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/apsb06-03.html Beta already has file-locking built in. The release yesterday covered 8.0 and 7.0 generations (for those on older OS), and the various dependencies (Breeze, Shockwave, etc). jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Flex Builder 2 Beta - Wrong Flash Player Version?
Jordan Snyder wrote: Yeah that's about right! So have you been able to resolve anything at all? I can obviously compile, so I can move it to another machine or something...but this is debilitating really! I'm super pissed, who can I complain to? OH right, it's BETA. Damn. I had read the prior description but wasn't sure what the question was and so passed onto other matters. Your post above doesn't help me turn the description into an answerable question either. Maybe it's something like What could happen if I install this week's 8.0x Player above my 8.5 beta Player? or If I blew away my 8.5 with a new 8.0x then how can I get the beta back? One answer along these general lines is that the uninstaller is now required to remove the new version-locked Player. I'm not sure whether this is the core question though. Have you checked the technotes listed in my original blog entry on the subject, particularly the one about unlocking? http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/03/players_v8024_v.cfm http://www.macromedia.com/go/14157 My apologies if I didn't get the right question out of the descriptions though... I might be way offbase. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] how to install flash player8.5 automatically when flex 2.0 application is running on client system
venkat eswar wrote: hi, i am new user of flex2.0 flex2.0 requires flash player 8.5 when it runs application. it is not realible to install flash player8.5 on all client systems SO ,PLZ GIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR how to install flash player8.5 automatically when flex 2.0 application is running on client system. I'm not sure of latest specifics, but I do know that in general it's best not to saddle consumers with preview or beta bits. I think your best approach at this point would be to indicate, in text, that early client approvals of that beta content would need to temporarily install the beta Player, and provide a link to the download and its instructions. Once this generation is locked down and enters general public distribution it will be much easier to auto-update their Players. In the meantime, each person installing the software needs to know exactly what the implications are, so going through the formal beta install gateway is best. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] New IE Update puts huge Selector Around Flash Movies / Netscape, Opera Nor Firefox do this
Robert Thompson wrote: I just updated my IE explorer, and unless something else is going on, now Internet Explorer puts a huge selector around any FLEX/Flash Movies -- I mean on ANY site and I've been to many already. Has anyone else experienced this when updating their IE ??? Macromedia staff have been covering this before it arose in public awareness, and had the first human-friendly documentation on it... latest versions here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ Ongoing news: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mtadmin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=28search=eolas http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/index.cfm?searchterms=eolasquery=bySimpleSearchsearchsortby=date jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Yahoo! Maps gets satellite hybrid.
Clint Modien wrote: Can play with it here: http://maps.yahoo.com/beta [lots of links snipped] Feedback welcome as always. Great stuff, Clint, thanks for the links... if folks here do Flex experimentation on this API it would be great to collect the examples as inspiration for others, thanks in advance. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] All the bunch of idiots at Adobe, please note!
Hi, I'm sorry you're not happy, and I'd like to pursue this. But to follow up on this internally I'd need to at least know your name and business group. (Staffers here don't usually have the bandwidth to analyze customer projects, so I'm assuming there was some type of business relationship involved, some type of contractual clause for mutual satisfaction.) I'm not sure what I can do yet... can you add some functional detail so I can try to help...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] labs.abobe.com redirect??
True. There are *many* redirects being edited each day now, in advance of the next phase of adobe.com/mm.com integration. One of the redirects in last night's bunch was wrong, and got propagated out to some external servers. The cause in this case is fixed, but may take awhile to propagate out through all servers. I'd anticipate other little temporary oddities over the next few weeks as this massive piece of integration work enters its final stages. One tactic for emergencies, whenever an URL doesn't resolve properly, is to hit Google's cache on the subject. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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.
Re: [flexcoders] SVG as Image source at runtime in Flex 2.0?
Summary: Possible lead, but still theoretical today. Matt Chotin wrote: I'd like to be able to set an Image source to an SVG URL at runtime. No, SVG support unfortunately is only when you embed. Sidenote: People *have* done work at retrieving, parsing and rendering SVG instructions within the Flash Player itself, via a SWF file with special drawing instructions. (This is a subset of the SVG spec, like all other SVG renderers, but each renderer does a different subset of the spec.) I don't know if/how you could integrate this into a Flex-authored SWF, but search term triolo wahlers svg brings up references, if that's of interest. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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.
Re: [flexcoders] OpenGL vs DirectX / Vista vs. Flash Player 9 MS comments about Flash re Vista
As Jesse noted, the Shockwave Player's 3D engine can take advantage of hardware acceleration (if available) for its realtime rendering, and over half of all consumers tested already have this ability on their machines. SWF files also integrate nicely into Shockwave work. (The new Acrobat 3D also has a realtime 3D rendering engine, and I believe it can take advantage of any available hardware acceleration, but I'd have to doublecheck that last detail. SWF integration is possible now, but I expect will improve further in the future.) yes, but if you can run flash in director, you should be able to run director in flash. No, Shockwave Player has a extensibility mechanism and can accommodate additional renderers, but this is part of why the download size is larger, adoption rate slower. (Oh, I see, reading more of the thread, Jesse covered that too, I need more coffee ;-) jd -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 on Linux?
Carlos Rovira wrote: Thanks for the link. I saw it when Tinic wrote at the end of the year, and I was looking for some more fresh info. Tinic's post was the last public guidance I recall too. I'll try to catch Tinic or Emmy in-cube today, though, see what options we can pursue on this here in May. (Yes, the comments on Tinic's piece did get campaign'd ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 on Linux?
I got a little more context on this... things seem same as before, with Player 9 expected Mac/Win within the next little bit, and the Linux Player 9 will take additional time beyond that. Staff are working on it now, but I won't expect to see finer-grained guidance until the next milestone gets hit... indeterminate for me now. But it's still looking like there will be a Player 9 for mainstream Linux just a few months after Mac/Win hits. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 on Linux?
Carlos Rovira wrote: With that info we can give some arguments to our clients saying that we'll have the linux player a few months after the win/mac release Cool... only caveat I'd have would be we *expect* to have it a few months later, by all current indications... until stuff actually ships I tend to reserve judgment, but from what I myself see and hear now, everything does still look good for Linux Player ports within a few months of Mac/Win getting finalized. Best laid plans..., I guess that's my concern here, could be an earthquake in San Francisco perish-the-thought jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Flex Apps and Google/Search Engines
On 5/12/06, Simon Fifield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any information or links about how successful Google and other search engine bots are at crawling Flex Apps? For crawling I'm guessing this is find the data within a SWF app. But much of the data is not in the SWF, and is instead in a database or other repository which is called at runtime. I'm not certain what you're hoping that the search engines would find. Search engines do best with locating static things with an URL... for a classic ColdFusion-style data merge people often create duplicate static pages if they want the database contents to be searchable via the standard engines. The better path is usually to have a number of external resources pointing to your hosting document, with anchor text used the search terms under which you'd like people to find you. Rephrased, raw body text is sometimes useful as search hits, but it's the inbound links which really control the ranking. Is this the type of info you were seeking? or...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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.
Re: [flexcoders] Mac equivalent of ActiveX
FineLine wrote: Hi, I have a question for the Mac experts. On Windows, I can embed a component written in Flex into a host application using the Shockwave Flash ActiveX object, and communicate with it using various method calls and events. Is there any equivalent mechanism(s) on the Macintosh? Sorry I'm late to the discussion... here's a couple of things you might be seeking: (Q) Is there a Mac ActiveX? (A) There was, but few used it, and IE/Mac was abandoned by Microsoft awhile back. (Q) Can I add a browser extension to my native-code Macintosh applications? (A) Yes, if you can emulate the Netscape Plugin hosting mechanism. (Q) Is there a protocol for Netscape Plugins to communicate with their host, on Macintosh? (A) Yes, the Adobe Flash Player uses a generic externalInterface wrapper layer for using various host communication protocols, and for the Netscape Plugin protocol you'd be implementing this API: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/npruntime.html (Q) How can I render Flash within native-code applications across platforms? (A) Via the above path, but it's a lot of work to write one native-code application, much less multiple ones which integrate platform-neutral renderers. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Flash 9/AS3 (speech recognition generation)
geminy555 wrote: I'm interested in connecting a Flash 9 /AS3 app to a speech recognition engine. That is sending audio from the client computer to a SR engine at the server and creating the response in flash. Do you know of any links source or documentation that would be helpful? Questions about general Flash Platform abilities usually don't pull well on this Flex-specific mailing list, particularly now that everyone's talking about Flex 2.0, but this sounds like a great topic for other Flash problem-solving lists. I know there are serverside speech recognition engines. I haven't yet studied their implementations, though. I don't know much. But I do know that many speech recognition systems are for telephone navigation systems, and so should be able to accept input pretty freely, within certain digital audio formats. I suspect that the microphone controls within Adobe Flash Player should let you send an audio stream from the visitor's browser to your media server, and then redirect that to your speech-recognition server. For generation, I wasn't sure I could see what you were visualizing, whether you'd generate the machine's reply as an MP3 file on your server, or what. There could be different types of solutions, depending on the types of answers that might need to be generated. For a limited command set, you might be able to do it all locally, no server... check the pattern of volume in the microphone and determine which canned audio snippet to present... mic volume alone can distinguish most speakers' back from forward, for instance. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/as3preview/langref/flash/media/Microphone.html#activityLevel Sorry you didn't get more replies, but this list is focused more on the coding abilities in the new Flex release than in general media issues with the Adobe Flash Player. Interesting topic, though, and I wish you luck on the project. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] SOT: Flash Player 9 distribution
Rick Root wrote: I don't want to have to tell my client base *NOT* to download the Yahoo Toolbar, and it annoys the heck out of me that Adobe puts that on their download page and checks it by default. Are there any other options besides directing people to the adobe page herE: http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer FAQ here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/faq/#item-4-1 Summary, as I recall: Those few IE/Win users who do not use the normal ActiveX background installation, but are instead directed to the Adobe webpages, are the ones who can see additional download offers on those pages. Specifying a minimum version in your OBJECT tag should be enough to avoid any exposure to unwanted offers. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Image manipulation on client side
Summary: Search term colormatrixfilter flex pulls up details. edugalvez wrote: How can my flex 2 application manipulate images on the client file system? Read manipulate as sepia-toning, resizing, rotating, exif-reading and uploading to server. Mainly jpgs. That's funny... I just replied to a similar question on a ColdFusion mailing list... let me paste the links here: Subject: Re: OT: Flash or Ajax to Compliment CF Project Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:29:48 -0700 From: John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dakota Burns wrote: I have a fairly large CF project coming up with an interactive piece that will involve changing colors on car parts (roll mouse over hood for design or color, select post to database or session), possibly an audio greeting - that sort of thing. The audio requirement may resolve the question in itself, although for some presentations it may not matter exactly how each browser invokes the audio file. A more subtle advantage may be in the on-demand coloring... it's possible to use the realtime color matrix filtering in Adobe Flash Player 8 and above to change the coloring of an image without having to download a new file. Docs example: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Partsfile=2079.html http://page.freett.com/isolations_nest/upload/test20.html The realtime clientside filtering capabilities can be set through the Adobe Flash Professional 8 authoring environment, but are also exposed to ActionScript control. Lots of good Flex-specific links here too: http://www.google.com/search?q=ColorMatrixFilter+flex jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Re: FDS 2.0
klumikaze wrote: Can anybody define Adobe's definition of a CPU? For example, we just purchased a new server with two dual core processors in it. Is a dual core processor considered one CPU? or two? As João and Tom noted, that would be counted as one... here's the citation from the Adobe site: (Q) Does the per-CPU pricing for Flex Data Services pertain to per CPU as in server or per CPU as in processor? (A) Per CPU as in processor. CPU is defined as a central processing unit in a hardware device, including devices accessed by multiple users through a network (for example, a server). A dual-core CPU is considered a single CPU for licensing purposes. http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/productinfo/faq/#item-34 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Re: Tamarin, Adobe open source the Flash player ?
Time out! Everybody go into their corner and read the FAQ and the previous commentary here before posting! ;-) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/faq.html (Adobe has donated source code used in Adobe Flash Player's scripting engine to Mozilla, for use in their own JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey. It's not about writing ActionScript in HTML pages or doing anything with the rest of the Adobe Flash Player. Future Firefox scripts will scream, that's the nut of it.) jd -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] ActiveX with Flex
boy_trike wrote: Does anyone have a suggestions? ideas? I may have the question wrong... here are some of the things I think you might be seeking to answer: -- How can a SWF in a browser call a particular ActiveX Control? As Gordon said, it's Internet Explorer for Windows which can use ActiveX Controls, and you can have the Adobe Flash Player ask the hosting browser to pass a message to another ActiveX Control that browser has available via the externalInterface API. Your other ActiveX Control would need to be able to talk to the browser too, and we can't tell whether your auto-dialer does. But such a path is very possible. -- If I make an out-of-browser SWF executable (via Flash Projector or a third-party shell) then how can I ask an ActiveX Control on the system to do something? This depends on the shell you use, but many have the capability to ask the system something. -- How might interactions in my in-browser Flex app trigger a phone call? Another approach entirely is to handle the calling through your intranet server and remote calls rather than through each local desktop and local calls... seems like it would reduce support costs too, assuming your telephone system is already equipped with dialing capabilities. Are any of these close to what you were seeking...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] My flex app's content on google search
mrinal wadhwa wrote: [If I want to write a weblog and display it in SWF, then how could I help the different search engines find each page?] The search engines have looked inside static SWF for quite some time. I don't know whether your weblog will use a database or not, so couldn't guess what each engine might see. But the major search engines recently converged on a sitemap proposal, which particularly helps dynamic sites... if you create a map with each post's keywords then you can assign parameterized URLs to help invoke the desired application state for various types of Flex front ends to a weblog database. http://www.sitemaps.org/faq.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/11/swf_seo_rip.cfm Is this the type of info you were seeking...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: My flex app's content on google search
slangeberg wrote: John Dowdell wrote: The search engines have looked inside static SWF for quite some time You'd have to tell me how that was done. ... it sounds like there's an or else left unsaid there ;-) For How did search engines look for text inside SWFs? then Google handrolled it, while others used Macromedia's kit to make it easy. For How can I prove to myself they read text inside SWF? then try a Google search on address filetype:swf or such. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: IE 7 Vista
cluebcke wrote: The latest release of FP9 will run in Vista. What I'm more interested to know is if previous versions of FP are incompatible with Vista, precisely because most of my customers are in a corporate environment with locked down systems and IT groups that are reluctant to deploy new configurations without a really good reason (one really good reason is that they're existing app won't work in Vista... not nice of me to hope for that, I know, but I am). I don't recall Microsoft compatibility reports stating that they broke support for any existing Flash work, although I do know that the current Player contains optimizations for the new OS. If your IT group updates the browser/OS and breaks things, then they could update the Player as well to fix it. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 issues on Windows 2005 Tablet PC Edition
Steven Toth wrote: Has any testing been done of the Flash Player 9 on Windows 2005 Tablet PC edition? When running our application under Flash Player 7 it responded as expected. However, Flash Player 9 is responding poorly to pen gestures such as textInput focus and double click. We filed a bug report and the Adobe rep. that contacted us didn't know what Windows 2005 Tablet PC edition was and wasn't sure how to help us. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I'm pulling up 18 Google references to search phrase Windows 2005 Tablet PC... variant phrases don't return good results either. Is there another label I should be searching on to find others' experience with similar machines...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Embed or Load PDF File
mvbaffa wrote: How can I load, on the fly, and/or embed a PDF in one of the Flex 2 containers or loaders. I have a database of PDF's that should be displayed in my Flex 2 application. I am now working with URL's pointing to these documents that are visualized directly in the browser, but I would like to show the them embeded in my flex container. The Adobe Flash Player does not display the range of PDF files handled by the free Adobe Reader and other PDF viewers. Options for similar effects: o Convert PDF to FlashPaper, which can be displayed in Adobe Flash Player, although I'm not sure offhand of invocation via Flex's MXML. o Call up the PDF via Adobe Reader in HTML pages in the usual way. o Possibly surround a PDF viewing area by SWF viewing areas, although anything with multiple browsers and iframes and such gets too dependency-ridden too quickly. Your Flex 2 creation can invoke other web resources like PDF files, even though it may not display it itself. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Animated Gif Support, why not yet? - feature request for the Profile Page Gone Bad
{reduxdj} wrote:
I know this seems silly, animated gif support in flex - why not?
The Adobe Flex Framework, Flex Builder IDE, and Flex Data Services run
on your machines. What runs on the enduser's machine is the Adobe Flash
Player.
Adobe Flash Player hasn't worked directly with external animated GIF
before, mainly because this format is so bulky compared to native SWF
drawing routines. If they can't see the GIF, we can't use it.
There are various ways to make GIF animations playable in the Adobe
Flash Player... you can import and convert existing GIF animations in
the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, for instance:
http://www.adobe.com/go/12837
jd
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Re: [flexcoders] Nearly-Off-Topic: Flex Apps on PDAs?
Pablo Apanasionek wrote: Last night I was planning my incoming self xmas gift and I found myself wondering about PDA support for Flex-Built Apps. Is there any PDA-browser/plugin that supports FP9/AS3? As other folks noted already, not yet. The mobile profiles of Adobe Flash Player don't yet have the realtime graphics engine of Adobe Flash Player 8, or the high-performance scripting engine of Adobe Flash Player 9. The company is working towards eventual convergence of desktop and pocket abilities, but it will still take some time to achieve this and get it deployed. It will be great to combine Flex interfaces and data manipulation with mobile deployment, but we've still got a way to go before achieving this... here's a summary of current mobile abilities: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/productinfo/features/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility
sanjaypmg wrote: Is Flex SEO Compatible? If yes, How can I my flex application SEC compatible? so that it can be easily available for search engines available. Work in Adobe Flex produces SWF files. Text within SWF files can be found and used by the search engines (contrary to widespread myth). Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22contrary+evidence%22+filetype%3Aswf If your content includes material fed in via database, then the search engine would not usually see that you use those words. As with all SEO tasks, you'd first figure what search terms you have a chance to compete on (eg, you will never appear on the first page of results for search terms like buy flowers online). Then set up your HTML hosting page with TITLE, URL, metadata and reinforcement of the targeted text terms. Then make sure you get plenty of inbound links from authoritative sources, preferably with your targeted search terms as anchor text. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility
dougmccune wrote: While I know Adobe employees don't like to admit this, the answer is very simple: It is often impossible, and if not impossible then at least extremely difficult, to get your Flex content indexed by search engines. That's the straight answer. No more no less. A particular concrete example might help bring this conversation back to ground. Work using Flex as the creation tool can certainly be found by search engines. Identifying your reasonable target search terms is the first step. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: SEO Compatibility
I'm out of this conversation, sorry... if I say start with the search terms you're trying to be found on and don't get acknowledgment, I'll just bow out now. (That restaurant sample applet, I have no idea if it's data-fed text or internal text, and don't see mentions of E Coli myself, and that's not the common type of things people are looking for with search engine optimization. Undefined terms make the convo go 'round.) Recap: Work in Adobe Flex produces SWF files. Text within SWF files can be found and used by the search engines (contrary to widespread myth). Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22contrary+evidence%22+filetype%3Aswf If your content includes material fed in via database, then the search engine would not usually see that you use those words. As with all SEO tasks, you'd first figure what search terms you have a chance to compete on (eg, you will never appear on the first page of results for search terms like buy flowers online). Then set up your HTML hosting page with TITLE, URL, metadata and reinforcement of the targeted text terms. Then make sure you get plenty of inbound links from authoritative sources, preferably with your targeted search terms as anchor text. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Flash9 Player Penetration Rates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it really only 40%, that's the impression that people here are under. I need a current please so I can fight the good fight for flash 9 since I don't want to have to develop for flash 8 in eclipse. Adobe Flash Player 9 was released on June 27 2006: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/06/flash_player_9_2.cfm When Milward Brown conducted a consumer audit 2.5 months later, in September, they found about 40% current viewability: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/11/flash_player_st.cfm Successful daily Player installations remain comfortably above five million a day. There was a significant upwards tick in early December, likely due to scandals in the movie industry in China (search term 'zhang yu' video). Last week the auto-update mechanism for the fullscreen Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28 was enabled: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/12/player_releases.cfm Summary: General consumer viewability is likely 'way above majority levels today. The consumer audits being conducted this month by Milward Brown will be published in the early part of next year. Your particular audience may or may not match overall consumer trends. If you need the faster logic-processing abilities with Adobe Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 3, then this should be a sufficient convincer for most clients. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility
sanjaypmg wrote: Is Flex SEO Compatible? If yes, How can I my flex application SEC compatible? so that it can be easily available for search engines available. This was the original question. Other topics came up during discussion. I'd like to confirm that I have the correct understanding of the main action item here... is the following wishlist item accurate? I'd like Adobe to provide examples on how to expose user-entered text, stored within my database and displayed and entered through a Flex SWF's UI, so that any search engine could search for that user text and return the address of the interface. I'm on the right page here for the subsequent discussion, true...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility
hank williams wrote: I want to apologize for the stridency of my earlier remarks. No worries, you've contributed a lot over the years, forget about it. :) I'm not sure how the various search engines do with query terms in URLs, though... some may index and/or rank on it, others may not. I don't know. I do know that the various search engines explicitly warn against cloaking (redirecting search results to different content), but for understandable reasons they don't go into much detail on their implementations. It sounds like our core current problem is in figuring out how to get search engine results for dynamic user-generated content piped through a standard interface... if someone types salmonella into a restaurant review, eg. I'm still not sure whether the search engines will support such a goal or not... the big thing this year for Google, Yahoo and MSN was to support a standard sitemap protocol, but this is again for the main static content, rather than the ongoing contributions held within a database: http://www.sitemaps.org/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] OT:Flex 2 adoption rates so far?
pk_wasp wrote: Has anyone got info on this? The lastest investor webcast didn't mention much about Flex 2 disappointly: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/06q4analyst/ (every bit of press helps convince that skeptical client :) ) What type of info are you seeking? I don't think Adobe publicly breaks out revenue by product. The Adobe Flex 2 family of technologies has been getting some very strong press reviews, as well as earnest word-of-mouth, but what types of stats are you seeking...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Passing flash vars to embedded swf doesn't work
mikey_wilko wrote: I have a flex app that has a swfLoader. I am loading different swf's in to the swfloader and they're all working fine. With one particular swf, it requires a flashvar. I've tried the following format : swfLoader.source=xxx.swf?id=2. This just doesn't work. However, running from the HTML wrapper and setting the flashvar in HTML, it does work, so the swf being called is working ok. Is there any different way of calling it from Flex?? Am I calling it the wrong way? flashvars per se is an HTML tag. Query terms in URLs are passed by the browser. If you're loading one SWF within another then the browser isn't involved. You can use localConnect to talk to two different top-level SWFs, and direct addressing for a host SWF to talk to a guest SWF, right...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Adobe site extremely slow
Ralf Bokelberg wrote: Whenever i try to watch some webpage on the Adobe site it is extremely slow. Be it the flex documentation, be it the flex exchange or be it the new flex cookbook. I mean, how can Google search the whole internet in a split of a second, and Adobe needs like 30 seconds to open a webpage? I wonder, if i'm the only one who encounters that. Or is it a german/european problem? I know that the symptom is real (although intermittent), and that the web team is aware of it, but I do not know details of why the site can perform at different speeds. I'll try today to hook up with the web team, and again request that we get some type of document/explanation up on why pages sometimes take longer than usual to display. I don't know the situation well enough myself to be able to venture the context. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] SEO Compatibility
Doug McCune wrote: In addition to allowing a search to return the address of the interface I think people also want the capability to allow deep-linking, so the address could make the interface load a particular content item from the database. I'd also like to point out that what we really want in an ideal world is a simple and automatic way for this to work in Flex, without requiring complex additional work. The history manager in Flex is a good example of this. URLKit has been getting good word... how is it doing for you? http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/urlkit/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Flex/Flash on The iPhone ?
John Kirby wrote: After seeing the Steve Jobs MacWorld demo (http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event) of the new iPhone which runs a Mac OS X (light)... I can't help but think that flex apps can't be far behind? I can't wait to start! Anyone at Adobe care to comment on a flash/flex mobile version for the iPhone. No responses from other staff members, because Apple usually locks down news pretty tightly at a launch. I didn't know about this device until the keynote, myself. I *do* know that Adobe staffers are currently working on getting some good guidance out there, but the key steps of initial disclosure are really up to Apple. I put up an early i dont know up on the weblog yesterday, and added some useful third-party analysis overnight: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/01/iphone_launch.cfm Summary: No info yet, but ASAP. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex/Flash on The iPhone ?
Shannon Hicks wrote: It seems that Apple has confirmed that Flash Java will be supported on the iPhone. Now if Adobe or Apple would just tell us what version will be supported. http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/15/6632 For what it's worth, the Macwelt translation of some Apple staffer to German, and then the re-translation back to English, is likely not as authoritative as what Steve Jobs himself said on the subject last week: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/ultimate-iphone-faqs-list-part-2/ http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/01/jobs_on_flash.cfm Summary: Situation still indeterminate. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Do you trust auto-update?
ben.clinkinbeard wrote: are there any reasons to not target FP9 and therefore rely on auto-update for users without it? For what it's worth, I didn't reply yesterday, because I couldn't think of such reasons, but my opinion could be seen as biased. The majority of consumers are almost certainly running Adobe Flash Player 9 by now. It was released on June 30, and ten weeks later, in mid-September, over a third of all consumers had already installed it, according to a consumer audit by Millward Brown: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html Today we're about thirty weeks into distribution. If your audience doesn't already have the latest capabilities, then they soon will. It's your decision, of course, but it's hard for me to see reasons to dismiss use of Player 9 today. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Do you trust auto-update?
ben.clinkinbeard wrote: Thanks for replying John. When can we expect to see results of a new audit? Consumer audits of current web-browser capability are usually held four times a year, usually with a 4-8 week processing/publishing cost, but holidays intervened this quarter. The December audits could be up any time, or it could be a few weeks yet... haven't heard firmer word on this quarter's scheduling yet, myself. Regardless, if Player 9 consumer adoption was not yet in the WinXP range as of mid-December, then it should be pretty darn close by Jan 19: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Localizing Press Esc to exit full screen mode?
Oleg Filipchuk wrote: any of supported languages - you mean English, French, German and Chinese? The are a plenty of other languages. I've been testing it on machines, with Russian, Czech, Polish, Slovakian, Ukrainian etc and everywhere it is the same Press Esc to exit full screen... Is it so hard for such a big company to make translation of one simple sentence to at least 50-70 languages? I'm assuming you have a display of your own Click Here for Fullscreen! message, in whichever set of languages you wish... could you toggle it to Click Here to Switch Back! when they do so? The Player is localized into many but not all languages, and its context menu can contain fullscreen text, with the screen itself then containing escape text. My point here is that these are usually not the only interface elements exposed -- usually you'd also have your own instructions, which can be in any language you care to write. (I'm not sure whether anyone from the Flash Player team keeps up-to-date with reading all messages on FlexCoders.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Max OS X Flex Builder 2.01 License Issue - still waiting
Bill Gercken wrote: Has anyone been able to get an new license? I contacted adobe and opened a ticket back on the 9th of January and I am still waiting... After 50 minutes on hold, they took my information and then put me on hold for another 30 minutes. They finally came back on the phone and asked me to fax in a letter of destruction for my Windows version, which I did. They said that they would email the new Mac key within 48 hours. Waited until the 18th and still no key. Another call to Adobe (30 minute hold time) and they told me that my original request was missrouted and that I should have the key by the end of the week, worst case by Tuesday (today). Still no key... I am a HUGE fan of Macromedia/Adobe/Flex but I am not sure why it has to be this difficult. Thank goodness for the 30 day trials... I've escalated this internally, but the San Francisco Customer Service folks are doing a training today, and I'm not sure when I'll see a reply. What you and Ethan describe doesn't seem acceptable to me either, but let me get some more information on this, and get back to the list when I do, good? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders]wmode=transparent kills my remote calls
Webdevotion wrote: Whenever I set my wmode to transparent, all my remote calls fail. No errors, nothing. Matt Chotin wrote: The bug still exists, unfortunately we require browser vendor support to address some of these issues. What's the browser dependency on this symptom (brand, OS, version)? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Is this possible - SVG to PDF(vector) ?
Alexander Tsoukias wrote: How is it possible to take a canvas from FLEX and convert it to vector PDF? I'm not sure... when you say FLEX are you thinking of the Flex Builder development environment, or the Flex Data Services server, or the Adobe Flash Player which is running a SWF which happened to be created using the Flex framework? And where would the resulting PDF file be created... on your development machine during development, on your server when a visitor arrives, or would a PDF be created and stored on the enduser machine as they interact with a SWF? There could be different paths, depending on where we're starting from, where we want to end up...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Adobe.com Servers?
purcept wrote: Why have the Adobe.com servers been so Slow and Erratic over the last couple months? Any time I go there for Flex info, I always have to Refresh at least once. I've asked around, but no one seems to know. David Hatch of the web team posted a status update a few weeks ago. If you're seeing performance which is not satisfactory, could you forward it either there or at the feedback widget on each adobe.com webpage, so that the info gets directly to those who do the work? Thanks. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/dhatch/archives/2007/01/hi_all_since_th.cfm tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: Adobe.com Servers?
Janis Radins wrote: Oh comon. Adobe.com is slow for you for two minth? It's been slow as hell from here (eastern europe) all the time for years now, totally unusable. That's consistent with what David Hatch, of the Adobe web team, described... the San Jose servers have already been updated, and the Dublin servers are now including these changes. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/dhatch/archives/2007/01/hi_all_since_th.cfm I suspect that this will be a continual battle, though, as transfer rates continue to increase... during late December the Photoshop CS3 preview alone was responsible for about as much traffic each day as the entire US Library of Congress holds, so the architecture has to be continually updated: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/12/photoshop_cs3_1.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] flash 9 and firefox 2.0
dantmcgowan wrote: I have been asked about flash player 9 and support for firefox 2.0. I looked here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/ and did not see any support for 2.0. Is this an old version, or is there no support for 2.0? Thanks, That page lists the minimum requirements. (The current Player likely runs well in Firefox 1.0x, but that is no longer a tested environment, and I think the phrase not supported here means that staffers won't accept phonecalls on older versions.) Unless a new browser removes support it previously offered, then plugins should run the same or better in later versions. Summary: Firefox 2.0? No problem. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Re: flex and IE 7 problems.
mthielman11 wrote: When we tracked the logs its as REALLY strange. a user was loggin in, username and was ferrall. For some reason the log kept showing he was typing farrell. we thought it was user error till we tried it and the same thing happened. Also was changing other things we typed in. SOme usernam e combos would cause the app to not even send anything to the server. Again everything works perfectly fine in every other browser we have tried. Only IE7 is causing the issue. I have no idea what's going on in that one situation, but I'm wondering whether there might be a keyboard mapping or other encoding issue in play. Does ferrall have an accent mark, or is it a straight ASCII character? How about when you try other machines using IE7? That could be a way to zoom in on the difference. (And yes, whatever's in Flex itself is insulated from changing browsers... the OS still gives the keystrokes to the Player, though, and the Player requests network services from the browsers, so there's a couple of way environmental changes could get in there, at the edges.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] PDF Files
Greg Hesla wrote: Would anyone like to share their experience with creating some sort of web-based PDF-annotation app? I realize that this may not be something that I can do in Flex, but if I can kick it off from within my Flex app, that would work as well. I'm not sure I understand your situation correctly, but you're aware that Adobe Acrobat already contains a variety of annotation and collaboration abilities, right? http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aadobe.com+acrobat+%28annotate+OR+annotation%29 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Is there a javascript flashObj.callFunction(), l ike setVariable?
I think this is How can the various browsers talk to the Macromedia Flash Player? Here's a weird URL with many screencaptures, but should list or link to the Player's inbound API: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=viewid=KC.tn_15683extid=tn_15683dialogID=7481736iterationID=1sessionID=96301dc81d7227e49115stateID=0%200%207485611mode=simple#jtfc (I don't recall whether these offer external access to root-level or targeted in-swf functions, and scanning these documents does not seem to quickly reveal the answer as previous versions of these documents did.) Browsers vary in their support. Netscape and Mozilla browsers were the ones who *initiated* this kind of intercommunication. The material on the website doesn't seem as easy to navigate as in previous years, but current browser support should be listed at least in the Release Notes for each Player: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash/releasenotes.html Summary: Browser/plugin intercommunication has been noble in theory since 1996, but still isn't really all that practical, unless you *know* your audience will be in standard configurations of IE/Win, or Java-enabled Firefox, or both. This may change in the future as new intercommunication APIs come on line: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4923 jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] CSSI Security Issues and Flex
The title may be a bit of a misnomer, because Macromedia Flex lives on the server, while cross-site scripting exploits would occur on the client machines. This seems a sub-class of general security in the Macromedia Flash Player rather than the development environment, true...? Here's general background info on security and privacy in the Macromedia Flash Player: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flashplayer/ ... and here's background on recent security issues in the Macromedia Flash Player: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/#flashplayer As I understand the post, you're concerned about the possibility of a command injection into a textfield of a SWF application. (I could be wrong, but it sounded to me more like a script-injection issue than a cross-site scripting issue.) Have you been able to see this happen yet? have you typed fscommand:() into a textfield in a particular component to pop up an alert or such? If there's a recipe that could be reproduced in-house then we can work on it. Or is it more a general curiosity, about whether there might be a way that such a thing is possible? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Re: More Competition
dunwerkin wrote: 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. I like the diversity of markup languages myself... a language is oriented directly around a component set, or a timeline model, or some other abstraction of a particular experience in SWF. I can see the desirability of one markup language to rule them all, but that seems like it would imply shoehorning a desired novel experience into a single pre-existing schema. That repurposing need you mentions seems like it will be a significant one, particularly after a year or two and work needs to be migrated from one environment to another. Schema-to-schema translations seem like they'd go further than trying to settle on just a few universal schemas up front...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Re: CSSI Security Issues and Flex (Proof of concept exploit)
Eric Raymond wrote: Here is a sample exploit. It requires you to trick the user into clicking a link. But if you can do that some percent of the time, with the aid of a flash decompiler to explore the app, you might be able to do all sorts of interesting things. Thanks, Eric. I suspect one of my partners may already have forwarded this along to the Security Center silently, without an acknowledgment to the public conversation, so I won't put a lot of time into this here myself. But it almost sounds like you're describing a situation of evil author, rather than evil site visitor, because you listed MXML rather than text which a visitor could type into a field for a classic script-injection approach. (And even then, asfunction() calls would be bounded by the same security sandbox which corrals all ActionScript calls.) Hmm... or maybe your scenario is closer to I relied on some type of web service which went rogue behind my back, that might be it...? But I'd defer to the Security Team... if you haven't received an offlist advisory that someone sent this there for you already, then here's the Please alert us entry: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/alertus.html tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] On the topic of Wishlists
pk_wasp wrote: I know Macromedia has a page where u can submit bugs or feature request is there any pages on Macromedia site or livedocs to show what ppl have wished/requested for (thinking of filling out some feature requests for Flex 2.0 but don't really want to repeat what other people might have requested) Not on the Macromedia site, but you can pick this up from the varied mailing lists and weblogs... here's a Google Groups search term to pick up relevant threads from the Macromedia forums, for instance: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=wishlist+group%3Amacromedia.* (Putting the results up on the site faces a series of odd problems... this material can't automatically go up there or it will be spammed (pagerank from mm.com is desirable)... trying to quantify the requests raises scenarios like FeatureY got the most votes! without realizing it conflicts with FeatureX... not everything which reaches that mailbox is relevant material... the next request is usually for commentary on each incoming... we haven't found a sustainable way to complete the feedback loop yet.) That wishlist address is best for making sure that what you want reaches the right decisionmakers. For general commentary on possible future directions, the public lists like this are the best place. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Flex on the Web
Michel Jansen wrote: I am looking for Flex application on the Web. Can anynone send me some URL's where i can find them? As David noted, the bulk of Flex sales are made for intranet applications, and the open World Wide Web is a slightly different audience. Allen had that good link to the Flex Examples page at DevNet: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flex/example_apps.html ... and Jeff Tapper pointed to the Sample Apps section at cflex.net, while Jeff Battershall had that nice example at Dow Jones: http://cflex.net/ http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/portfolio/index.cfm?event=showPortfolioGlobalRelativeRisk Another resource is the Macromedia Showcase, filtered on Flex: (URL is too long... try mm.com/showcase, then click Flex) For up-to-the-minute citations (although mixed with a variety of other materials), try searching the Macromedia weblog aggregator with terms like flex example: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/ If you know of a particular type of application that you're seeking (banking, business analytics, a particular company, whatever) then there are possibilities in a general web search. But Flex on the Web would only be a small part of Flex in Realworld Use... it's a subset of the whole at this time. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Flex on the Web
One more recent gallery is in this quarter's Macromedia financial call, on slide 34 of the following Breeze presentation: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/ir/macr/web_pres/earnings/q405/ jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Re: Flex on the Web
jacksodj wrote: Also, last I saw posted to this group, there were only about 200 licenses sold to date. I saw that you quoted my whole message in reply. If you had instead checked the links provided, you would have seen that number of licensees (not just licenses) increased over 50% since the time of whatever uncited material you were quoting. http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/ir/macr/web_pres/earnings/q405/ (Flex material starts at slide 30.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] passing variables using getURL?
sbyrne_dorado wrote: I'm having problems figuring out how to pass variables using getURL. Pass info from where, to where...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] passing variables using getURL?
Abdul Qabiz wrote: No we don't get anything back if invoke JavaScript function using getURL(..). But you can do something similar, as described below: For what it's worth, some of the various browsers *did* return JavaScript values to plugins after receiving a javascript: pseudo-URL. I haven't tested whether any of the current browsers work like this. But like all that underdocumented stuff, it worked in some browsers, didn't work in others, and was subject to side-effects in many cases (didn't work with WMODE on, etc). Some of the browsers *do* offer a documented, tested, and supported plugin/browser intercommunication scheme, and where such an ability is offered the Macromedia Flash Player has exploited it, under the general FSCommand interface. I see lots of people continue to promote javascript: pseudo-URLs and this worries me, just because of the great variability of browser support for this ability. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] The Softer Side of On Demand: A Peek at Software and Workflow News
Tarik Ahmed wrote: http://members.whattheythink.com/home/od05sherburne7.cfm ...Exstream was showing its brand-new Dialogue Version 5, which, according to Vice President of Marketing Kelley Sloane, has over 250 enhancements. With this release, Exstream teamed up with Macromedia to use its* Flex Server* to create Dialogue Anywhere for Marketing, allowing creation of a rich Internet user experience and the ability to create an interface similar to a PC. Sloane claims Exstream is the first company to deploy an application like this, designed for corporations that have marketing staff scattered in various geographic locations. Users can log on to Dialogue, create marketing messages and rules, and send their work for approval under a defined workflow cycle, having them incorporated in documents at run time.. Thanks for bringing that up. I spent some time at exstream.com, but didn't see a good explanation of how they were using the technology. Anyone find a better citation on this...? tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] RIAs
Benjamin Dobler wrote: Does anyone remember when the word RIA (Rich Internet Application) first appeared. Who invented the term? I think it was someone at MM but i can`t remember. As Jesse noted, the first use of that acronym appeared to be in this 500K PDF from Macromedia in March 2002: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/whitepapers/richclient.pdf A year or two back I tried to confirm this through the recall.archive.org engine (since deceased), which did textual analysis of the archive.org content, and it did confirm that this Macromedia document was the first usage of that RIA term. I can't prove that no one ever used that phrase before, but I've never seen any evidence to counter its original definition being by Macromedia staff. I got tired of regularly finding an dopening that PDF then clicking through pages, so I copied the guts of it over here: http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/007312.cfm Paraphrasing and summarizing that crucial aspects of rich client technologies section, these were defined as: (a) use of a high-performance runtime for code, content and communications; (b) integration of media types (video in the same window, eg); (c) a common object model for these multimedia services; (d) ability to use and add components, for development efficiency; (e) XML data communications with servers; (f) online/offline transparency (we're all still working on that one!); (g) friendly to various browsers, operating systems, devices... there's explicit mention of beyond the desktop non-PC work here. The term RIA has been bandied about in much of the AJaX hullaballoo, but I'm not sure any current JavaScript examples actually meet the above criteria -- modern JavaScript techniques have recently added ongoing XML transfers with the server, but they don't seem in the same ballpark on the rich aspect of that popular RIA moniker. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Flex external desktop application communication
superabe wrote: I know Flex excels at communicating with server-side data sources. Is there any way for a flex app to communicate with a desktop application installed on the same machine as where the app is being viewed (in a controlled kiosk environment for e.g.) Key concept: You may develop a SWF in any of several ways, but this file runs within the Macromedia Flash Player, usually (but not necessarily) in a browser. So this becomes: Can plugins in browsers invoke executable code on the desktop? The answer to this is Not usually, because of the severe security risks this implies -- document browsers are designed to promiscuously visit site after site after site, so there is great risk in letting things on your hard drive invisibly execute. I don't know what type of communication you're seeking -- data exchange, switch of focus, one-way web service -- there could be ways to achieve the goal, depending on just what that goal was. Sorry I don't have a useful here ya go! answer, but the above is the background towards finding it. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] MM weblogs moved
Dave Carabetta wrote: Do you know when/if the /go/* feed URLs will be updated? These are in the pipeline (gotta do it!), but the older machine was physically damaged, while its owners (Mike Chambers Christian Cantrell) are at the FlashForward conference in New York. It will probably take a few days to resuscitate it and clean the transfer, but the goal is to transparently redirect old links and current RSS readers. Fastest information will be at the MXNA Weblog (the weblog about the aggregator): http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxnaweblog/ tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Load a large swf (13MB)
Clint Modien wrote: Can I start playing the movie before it's loaded? The question is actually harder to answer than it might seem, because SWF has added more capabilities and content types since it started. Here's a good intro to the basic streaming nature of a SWF file, written towards Flash 4/5 days: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/how/subjects/Stream1/ For basic SWF a movie will start to display as soon as the first frame is loaded... the second frame will display immediately if it has no new media, or (if the second frame has new media) after the second frame's media has downloaded. Generally, Flash is set up to start playing in a Flash. It gets harder if you're using elements which can be called at any time during play (attachMovie, attachSound, etc) because these elements then need to be front-loaded, and need to be completely downloaded before the *chance* that they might be called in the first frame. Components generally fall into this class as well. The video features add another complication to is it streaming... we can set up video to download entirely before playing, to stream from a server, more: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/flv_download.html One useful strategy for many cases where a 13-megabyte SWF is considered would be to break the presentation into modules which can then be called on demand. If everything was in a single 13M SWF then you might have to download the bulk of it before seeing anything interesting (depending on how it was constructed), but if there's 2M for a map module, another 4M for a voice-over and so on, then you can load these assets as they're requested and speed the immediate startup of the piece for your audience. Easier question to ask than to answer, sorry, but does the above provide a path for what you wish to achieve...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] IBM pushing rich internet client project for Eclipse
Tariq Ahmed wrote: IBM pushing rich internet client project for Eclipse *...* For now *Macromedia* claims a head start, boasting 300 customers for *Flex*. Although *Macromedia* has joined Eclipse to offer a rich *...* Yup, I saw that syndicated article too... there's certainly an art to press placement. ;-) That 300 figure is old... in the Macromedia Executive Presentation this week, Stephen Elop noted that the number of separate Flex licensees moved up to 400 last quarter, an increase of 30% over the last three months... that's pretty astounding. Atop that, many of the earlier licensees have expanded their licenses this quarter -- their pilot projects were so successful that they bought more seats for more workgroups. For me, that tested buy-in is significant validation. For Laszlo, congrats to them on getting the news article... it's good to explore different XML abstractions of user experience. It's hard to estimate seats or pricing head-to-head, but I note about a 50:1 difference in mailing list messages in the two tools' main lists this month: http://openlaszlo.org/pipermail/laszlo-dev/2005-July/thread.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] OT: Flex Team Macromedia :)
Scott Barnes wrote: wtf is our FLEX Team Macromedia :) (ie noice no FLEX team macromedians)... I'm guessing w stands for where this time... otherwise I'm off-track in the following reply ;-) Rey had the main point -- Team Macromedia is oriented around the Macromedia newsgroups and webforums. The number of Flex licensees is far smaller than the number of people using the visual tools, and a smaller fraction of these people seem comfortable with the existing webgroups. This Yahoo list here has a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the newsgroups anyway. Summary: TMM is a newsgroup-oriented inner circle, and Flex has a very different conversational model online. Cool? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Flex on a SmartPhone?
Nick Collins wrote: Nope, not possible as Flex requires the Flash 9 player with the new VM, which doesn't currently run on smartphones. Thanks, Nick, that's indeed the key. Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 is built around the desktop Flash Player 7 engine and ActionScript 2: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/productinfo/faq/#itemA-2 Bringing both Flex and Apollo to mobile is definitely on the agenda, but first the mobile runtime needs to become even more capable than the current release is. I haven't seen any dates estimated for delivery. For the forseeable future Flex 2 work is limited to fullsized Mac, Win and Linux computers, sorry. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] using an OCX with Flex
boy_trike wrote: I am considering re-writing a traditional client-server application in Flex. This will be an INTRANET application and all of the clients have a registered OCX that my app has to communicate with (Interfaces with a phone dialer). If all of your audience must use an OCX phone-dialer, then it sounds like they're all using the Microsoft browser for Windows. (This is the only browser family which uses ActiveX as an extension mechanism.) Flex lives in your development flow and on your server, and it's a SWF which is delivered to their browsers to render. SWFs in IE can communicate with other ActiveX Controls, with the best communication being with those ActiveX Controls which expose a VBScript/JScript interface (Microsoft's JavaScript analogues). Two steps here: -- First confirm that the OCX dialer supports a suitable JavaScript API; then -- Do a Google search on externalinterface flex to find the range of resources on implementing it. Such work is usually a little trickier than standalone work, because you're asking the plugin, the browser, and the third-party control to all behave as you expect, but it's definitely an achievable goal. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Stats on flash player 9 penetration.
Clint Modien wrote: Do we have stats for flash player 9 penetration yet? Has Adobe turned on the auto-update for flash 9 player yet? If not... when? Do we have stats for when Adobe turned on auto-update for flash 8 player? What was the adoption rate before and after it was turned on? Adobe Flash Player 9 entered general public distribution at the end of June: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/06/a_pocket_guide.cfm It did not fall within the most recent consumer audit: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/08/flash_player_8_1.cfm The daily rate of successful installations indicates that we're likely close to an astounding 50% consumer viewability already: http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=498 I don't know the auto-update date offhand, but it has contributed to the above results. FP9 adoption is freakin' fast, that's the long and short of it. ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Stats on flash player 9 penetration.
Clint Modien wrote: 50% in 3 months are you kidding? That's insane. I'm glad you share my sense of insanity ;-) But these early projections seem plausible... Flash Player 8 reached 85% consumer viewability in nine months of distribution, and the daily installation rates for FP9 are just as high. High-profile sites moved to FP8 pretty quickly, mostly for the new video codec, and now all those upgrade prompts have been pushing people to the current Player. The application designers are getting a boost from the video houses here. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Stats on flash player 9 penetration.
Clint Modien wrote: I'm totally confused now. Isn't the only thing requiring a player upgrade to 9.0 flex 2? Without auto-update turned on what is causing such a blazing fast adoption rate? I think it's the content. While YouTube requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or better, anyone still upgrading from v7 or previous will now get the current version, Flash Player 9. Rephrased, a site doesn't *have* to specify FP9... anytime that they specify a minimum version greater than what someone has installed, then (as of the end of June) they'll be getting FP9. MySpace going to SWF9 did increase adoption rates, but even if they have 90 million regular visitors, that's still only about three weeks' worth of normal Flash Player distribution... from what I'm told, we've been seeing five to six million successful installations per day anyway. MySpace *did* have an effect in bunching upgrade requests together, but the total Flash Player 9 audience is already far larger than the MySpace audience. There's a virtuous circle going on with Flash work now... the application developers benefit from the video sites, from the advertisers, from the newspaper infographics, from the personality sites. More on the different sociology of Adobe Flash Player 9 here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/08/linux_observati.cfm jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] How does Digital Editions do read/write across the net without a trust file?
jeremyrichman wrote: If you haven't already, check out Adobe's new Digital Editions beta (at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitaleditions/install/). I believe this was written using Flex; but how do they read and write across the net without needing a trust file? This project is a mix of Player and native-code. There isn't yet good public documentation on its mechanics, even though the project raises a number of intriguing questions. I'm hoping we see more details soon. From what I've been able to gather in informal hallway conversations, I don't see much that would be transferrable to other projects yet -- my first reaction was Wow, are they really reading PDF/A into SWF?, but that's apparently not the case either. Their remote retrieval might not even be using the Player; we can't tell yet. It looks to me now more like a one-off project than something we can reuse in various ways, but it would be better to wait for authoritative information to appear than to rely on the impressions I've been able to gather. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 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] Making the list archives searchable
Manish Jethani wrote: I want to make the list archives searchable in the true sense (like Google, like Yahoo, like MSN, ...not like Yahoo Groups). Have you tried adding terms site:groups.yahoo.com inurl:flexcoders to any web search? These arguments work in both Google and Yahoo, and variants are available in other engines too. NB: From what I've seen, neither Google nor Yahoo appears to archive all messages, but this is a spidering/coverage problem rather than a problem of capability on our part. Automating a separate archive still seems like it may help, but existing archives are (at least partially) available today, through the above search tactic. For blogwork, it's possible to make an HTML field which accepts a user query, and then the Submit button adds site: and inurl arguments to this term before submitting it to the chosen search engine. Result: Visitors see a Google or Yahoo page, restricted to the FlexCoders archives, showing hits on their desired term. The first step in doing that is to get the archives. I'm not sure if Yahoo provides these, but I know how to get them otherwise. The archives are available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/messages It's possible to programmatically loop through these to capture them. I'm not sure whether Yahoo Groups' Terms of Service allow for groups to harvest their own information like this. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks.
Re: [flexcoders] Open Source Flex? (was: pricing)
Benjamin Dobler wrote: Why no open source Flex? I mean the swf format is open. The tools are their. Merging components, creating Actionscript components It`s all doable and there is nothing magical about flex. That's true. It's not a trivial undertaking, but it's certainly true. One of the first things to consider is the XML language you'll use to define the final SWF experience. Flex's MXML handles layout and databinding of a particular component set. This isn't the only way to describe a SWF experience in XML... SMIL has defined layout and media sequencing in XML, SVG has described vector graphics in XML, and there have been a few projects over the years which describe various types of SWF experiences in XML. (One of the first discussions on this whole subject was when XML was first introduced in the late 1990s, and people tried to figure out useful ways to describe a Macromedia Director experience in XML.) Once you figure out your XML abstraction, then the next step would be to construct a SWF by those instructions. This could be done in-SWF in some cases (an HTML page holding a SWF which then requests an XML file to construct slideshow sequences, for instance), or once in production at author-time (those static SWFs that Flex can make), or fresh for each request at serving time (as Flex usually does). I think there's lots of room for various XML languages, which are then constructed as SWFs at various times. Each combination would likely have its own set of advantages, its own set of best-use scenarios. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] My Apologies
Mehdi, Agha wrote: I have to set Out of the Office reply for a week while I am out. I apologize if it causes any inconvenience. I could unsubscribe from the list and re-subscribe but than I'd miss a lot. If anyone does have any objections then I will un-subscribe. :-( Yahoo Groups has a nice way to handle this. Just go to groups.yahoo.com, sign in, and hit Edit My Groups. You can then set all your Yahoo email groups to no email, while still being able to post, being able to view archives, etc. When you get back to your regular routine, you can then set each group to individual emails, digest, web-based reading, whatever you prefer. (I wouldn't recommend using Digest mode anymore -- this group, in particular, has many members who autoquote the full chain of messages below each new sentence they may add to the thread, so mailing list digests have become pretty much unreadable over the last few years. Good while it lasted, though) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] flex and javascript
Duccio Del Ministro wrote: Is there a way tocommunicate between flex and javascript? Not directly, because these (usually) live on different machines. (You can create MXML files on your development machine... Macromedia Flex changes these XML files to SWF on your server... JavaScript usually describes something which lives on the different machines of all your site's visitors.) For How can a SWF communicate with the browser hosting it? then there is the way browser-makers document, which is addressed inside the Macromedia Flash Player through its FSCommand work. This is tricky, though, because not all browsers offer such a communication mechanism, and those that do require different browser-scripting to make it work. It's a lot of testing. There's also a way the browsermakers tend *not* to document (or test, I suspect), and that's one-way messages from plugin to browser via javascript: pseudo-URLs. You can see the spotty browser support for this in this older survey: http://www.macromedia.com/go/14159 For How can I offer a file-upload UI for a SWF inside a browser? then the most reliable method I've seen is to just put an HTML FORM in the page to make such a button visible. It will be outside the SWF, but it will work. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Flex Technical Consultant Architect roles at Macro media in San Francisco Boston
Marcy Kintzele wrote: We have some very interesting Flex related openings in Macromedia's Consulting group in the SF and Boston areas Will this get up on the public jobs board, or is it a super-secret offer only to members of this list? http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/hr/consulting.html tx, jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. 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] Local data access in Flex
weeksie31 wrote: I need to evaluate the ability of a flex app to read from xml files stored locally (local disk/network). Is this at all possible? Anyone know of any blog entries etc that discuss offline flex usage? Currently, Flex lives on the server, perhaps during authoring, but I suspect you're asking about how the Macromedia Flash Player, when it plays within a browser, can access the local hard drive. This might be possible, depending on where the SWF is at the time, what types of permissions you set, etc. Much more info is in the total Player security overview: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/fplayer8_security.html Generally, the easiest way is if all your data comes from the same place -- if you're only accessing through one of the four sandboxes -- but there are ways to handle various types of inter-machine communication securely, too. Clint Modien wrote: Can anyone from Macromedia comment on the integration of flex 2.0 with Central? Is it better? Nick Weekes wrote: As well as info on Central + Flex 2 for Offline RIA's, Id like to hear from the Adobe ppl on Apollo + Flex integration. Is this going to replace Central, or co-exist? I haven't seen any announcements about Central, particularly since the alpha Flex 2.0 announcements were made. You may have noticed the recent talk about the Apollo project, scant as the current data is. Here's an overview of what we know so far: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/12/cahill_on_apoll.cfm jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Flex 1.5 for PDAs Mobiles ??
Aldo Bucchi wrote: Man, I was definitely expecting more interest in this one!! so... should I simply presume that Flex is not yet ready to go mobile? Flex (in its various versions) is a way to produce SWF. It can't go mobile itself, so I'm not sure what you're exactly asking...? My best guess is that the actual question is something like I've got to make a data-managing SWF for deployment to a certain class of PocketPC devices, and I'd like to use a Flex workflow to do so -- what are my options? and (if that's the question) then the Macromedia Flex 1.x workflow targets FP7 and above, while PocketPC has FP6, which does not leave room for much maneuvering: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/productinfo/systemreqs/ http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/ But I'm not certain I pulled the complete-yet-concise question from the discussion...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM ~- -- 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 * 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] Question about a book written by Steven Webster and Allistair McCloud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the book Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex by Steven Webster and Allistair McCloud and I am trying to find what is the best chapter to read about security. I want to learn how to put information on a server and have it be kept secure? The information would be things like passwords and money amounts etc etc. I don't have the book's index in front of me, but I know a good web resource for such topics: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/ It sounds like you'd have a serverside database in there somewhere, which would then provide values to either your Flex app, or your audience's Macromedia Flash Player, or both, so that general techniques of securing a serverside database would all apply... am I seeing the situation correctly...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Yahoo Maps questions
Tom Fitzpatrick wrote: Any input or pointers to other Flex/Yahoo Maps code examples much appreciated. I haven't been able to dig as deeply as I'd like, and so can't answer the questions, but I do know a riper venue for such discussions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-maps/ jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] FlashPlayer 8.5 for Windows Mobile PocketPc ?
rossanovazzoler wrote: Are there any plans for making flex 2 apps available on pocketpc? Not immediate, but that's definitely a long-term desire, assuming the hardware and subsequent markets permit. Right now, as work on Flash Player 8.5 enters Beta, the PocketPC engine handles the SWF6 format http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/pocketpc/2002.html Last week Bill Perry started up some conversation on his blog about the needs for SWF7 for PPC, and he's specifically seeking which SWF7 features make the most difference to you in your own work: http://www.flashdevices.net/2006/02/interested-in-flash-player-7-for.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Benefits of Flash Security Model and crossdomain.xml
Eric Raymond wrote: My main question is who is this model intended to protect? Other folks had good info... another way I've seen to get the idea across is that this same domain sandboxing is a necessity because the clientside Macromedia Flash Player can execute behind a firewall, so arbitrary servers behind that same firewall must not be invisibly tapped. But you raise a larger issue here, in that this objection/query comes up about every two weeks on this list and in other discussions talking about Player mechanics. I see that the top link for search term why crossdomain.xml shows a Macromedia technote which explains why as because of security reasons... maybe we need to do a better job of getting the actual understandable rationale inside each document which discusses the issue, to put the subsequent details in context? Your thoughts...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Re: SWF Object/Embed tags (Flex/Flex 2/Flash 7+)
Darin Kohles wrote: As I mentioned, my colleague had read an article about dropping the Embed tag, so I thought I'd ask for the Official word on the subject. Yes, Drew McLellan's Flash Satay article has been highly linked. Drew was seeking to make pages which make the validators happy by not including EMBED. He tested for simple visibility of SWF with only OBJECT in some undetermined browsers... I think he later named some of the browsers where he saw the SWF. But to my knowledge no one has done ongoing work against the various browser brands, in their various versions on the various platforms, in various HTML environments (inside DIV, with certain alignments, etc), with the full range of browser-dependent features (printing, JavaScript communication, data-passing etc). The best list I've seen about various browser differences when invoking plugins through OBJECT rather than their documented EMBED was at Geoff Stearn's place last spring... link and synopsis here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/06/browser_object.cfm Summary: Until the browser vendors say they take responsibility for correctly invoking plugins via OBJECT, I'd have to urge staying with their documented EMBED. There are tricks to keep the validators happy when using that tag (dynamic JS writes, etc), but the core problem of the HTML 4.0 de jure spec disallowing the de facto standard of the day still has repercussions, even here in 2006. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] Re: Flex 1.5 Hotfix
Eric Raymond wrote: The url had very little information on the particulars of the hot fix. Two questions that arise are: 1) What is the exact behavior our customers will see if we do not apply this hot fix? (One assumes the behavior will be the same as unpatched IE after the hotfix?) 2) What does the generated html now look like (for those of us who do not use the proxy and have to create it manually)? I understand that there will soon be a link in that Flex-only technote to the larger Active Content Developer Center, which does contain background on user experience, Microsoft source documents, more: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ (I'm not sure whether they show the generated markup from the various JavaScript solutions, but I do recall a user-experience article there.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] IE Update disables Flash
For what it's worth, I figure we're in for a few weeks of less-than-fully-accurate reporting out there, as new people learn of the browser change. If you could spread the word of the Adobe Active Content Developer Center, which links to the Flex technote and other resources, then that would be great, thanks: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ For fastest updates, I've been following each twist and turn of this case on my weblog... a search term of activex there will pull up these issues (along with a couple of unrelated hits). http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- 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 * 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] PDF aware Flash Player ???
vvasireddyflex wrote: I am wondering is Flash player is PDF aware like browser? No, not really... the Adobe Flash Player is popular because it is small, and import filters add to filesize. There is not even basic PDF reading in Flash Player, much less full PDF reading. I know of a few ways to merge these technologies today: -- Print the PDF to FlashPaper and display in Flash Player. -- Invoke Flash Player from Adobe Reader (works with ActiveX, and I'm not sure at the moment of Netscape Plugins). -- Have the two extensions side-by-side in the browser (subject to browser intercommunication abilities, Flex-Ajax Bridge-ishly). jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] PDF aware Flash Player ???
Carlos Rovira wrote: 2006/5/24, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know of a few ways to merge these technologies today: -- Print the PDF to FlashPaper and display in Flash Player. -- Invoke Flash Player from Adobe Reader (works with ActiveX, and I'm not sure at the moment of Netscape Plugins). -- Have the two extensions side-by-side in the browser (subject to browser intercommunication abilities, Flex-Ajax Bridge-ishly). Approach four: - Use blazepdf : see it at http://www.blazepdf.com/ Good point, thanks for the catch. Gregg Wygonik's BlazePDF is a SWF file which reads, parses, and then renders PDF content. Like all non-Adobe PDF readers it doesn't support everything the file format can do, but from all I've heard it's a good approach if its functionality fits your job's needs. (btw, I really like these approaches to render PDF within a SWF file, or render SVG within a SWF file, or render XAML within a SWF file, and so on... new web technology like the Safari/Firefox CANVAS tag shouldn't be held in a little ghetto just because all the browsermakers haven't used it yet... I think SWF can play a big role here, as a universal renderer of many types of web content.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] PDF aware Flash Player ???
Gareth Edwards wrote: The company I work for are interested in methods we can use to communicate to the parent document. (ie HTML document where the PDF is embedded). Could you elaborate on how it is currently possible to Invoke flash player from Adobe Reader? Is this done via _javascript_ in the pdf document as well as the browser? Are there examples of this in the Acrobat SDK? or in any public facing documents? Just to check, we're talking about using the variety of WWW browsers your audience may have, and putting in SWF and PDF elements in the same HTML page, and having them all intercommunicate... is that the goal? If so, I know that there was LiveConnect support in past versions of Acrobat Reader, but I don't know offhand if the current Adobe Reader 7.0x has yet implemented the NPRuntime communication spec in recent browsers. (Background: Netscape/Mozilla have had three different intercommunication schemes, with the most recent one also adopted by Opera and Safari... Microsoft's Windows browsers have had a parallel scheme... in plugins these differing approaches have generally been papered-over with externalEvent or FSCommand or ExternalInterface types of calls. In addition to these browser-provided intercommunication methods people have hacked around browsers for years, whether through _javascript_: pseudo-URLs or refreshing a small DIV or whatever. Lots of browser difference here.) A lot would depend on which browsers your audience uses (brand, version and platform), and which ways you need communication to flow. That's the base restriction. The Apollo project will focus on making it easier for HTML, SWF and PDF to intercommunicate with a minimum of hassle, but right now you've got to lock down the biggest variable, and that's the browsers your audience has chosen. After that you can research communication methods those browsers support. Not an easy answer, I'm afraid. :( jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] AJAX versus Flex
Stacy Young wrote: We should also be aware of the impact of flash video. Its use is skyrocketing right now ...and anywhere you have the flash player for video you open a door to flex technologies. Good point... we'll see audiences pull new Flex capabilities rapidly into their browsers, even if only through the video world. That's part of what got Flash 8 to 70% consumer viewability in its first half year, and adoption of Flash Video has sort of exploded since then. At the Ajax Experience conference in San Francisco this month, several speakers said that their audiences will contain significant IE6 presence for a very long time to come -- only a minority have switched browsers on their current machines, and many computers will have to be replaced before the eventual Vista is adopted. _javascript_ audience advancement will likely, over the next few years, be tied to hardware replacement rates. Two very different speeds of evolution here jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice 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.
Re: [flexcoders] UNSUBSCRIBE
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