All applications, simple or complex, online or desktop, are composed of many
elements: screens, forms, menus, etc. In a Rich Internet Application, those
elements can also include video, audio, or images. From the programmer's
standpoint, it would be great to be able to reuse those parts so that they
can be incorporated into different places of the application, or in different
applications, using the same component.
In Flex, creating custom MXML components is a very easy task; whenever you
create a new component, simply drop it in your application as many times as
you want. You can also easily use it in other Flex applications.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a small photo slide show Flex
component that reads XML output created by Picasa's export feature. Picas... (more)
As you may know by now, ColdFusion 7 includes a new feature that lets us
create forms in flash format. They work as a replacement for html forms, but
give us some additional controls like the tree, grid, and calendar. Even if
making a "form" doesn't sound very appealing to you, once you start using
this feature you will find that you can do much more than simple forms.
But the best is tha... (more)
Flex is a complete set of tools to develop rich Internet cross-platform
applications based on the Flash platform. With Flex, you can create
applications that not only have the "wow factor" necessary to please clients
and users alike, but the "usability factor" necessary to make your
application a real success.
Flex 2 has recently been released and can be downloaded at Adobe's Web
site.... (more)
With the release of Macromedia ColdFusion 7 and the arrival of Flash Forms,
developers were presented with an alternative to HTML forms that offered them
additional functionality, such as full-featured controls not available in
HTML and built-in validation. That alone made Flash Forms appealing - and
with the addition of pieces of ActionScript code, developers were able to
create truly r... (more)
With the release of Macromedia ColdFusion 7 and the arrival of Flash Forms,
developers were presented with an alternative to HTML forms that offered them
additional functionality, such as full-featured controls not available in
HTML and built-in validation.
That alone made Flash Forms appealing - and with the addition of pieces of
ActionScript code, developers were able to create truly re... (more)
Laura Arguello is one of the founders of Blue Instant (http://www.blueinstant.com), a web development firm specializing in Rich Internet Applications where she has been creating award-winning applications and offering training for the last five years. She also maintains a blog, called AS Fusion (http://www.asfusion.com), where she writes about Flash, ColdFusion and other web technologies.
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