October 22, 2003
The new Flash Professional forms interface is a highly intuitive and usable alternative to the timeline that so many of us coders fear and loathe. Forms are screens that are displayed and hidden as needed, and forms are created and managed in a hierarchical tree view within Flash Professional. But...
October 13, 2003
This one has nailed me several times this week, so ... The Flash MX 2004 DataGrid component allows for the browsing and editing of data, including data retrieved from ColdFusion (via Flash Remoting or SOAP). Data grids are typically populated by datasets (which in turn are populated using...
October 12, 2003
If you are using Web Service connectors in Flash MX 2004, then you will likely find yourself wanting to see the Web Service calls being made and raw data being returned to Flash. To dump this data to the output window, use the following line of code: _global.__dataLogger=new mx.data.binding.Log();
October 6, 2003
Flash MX 2004 features a rich set of components, from simple form controls to data grids and trees. The components are objects which all inherit from a base UIObject (which in turn inherits from MovieClip). Waleed Anbar's Flash Component Architecture article...