Tag: Flash

April 11, 2005

USA Today: Steve Elop On Flash And Cell Phones

USA Today is running a story on Flash on cell phones. Nothing you've not heard before, but still worth reading.

Using Flash Remoting With CFMX7? Watch Out For This One

I mentioned this in a comment on a prior post , but it is important enough to warrant its own mention. If you are using Flash Remoting to access ColdFusion code, you may run into an issue in which ColdFusion could construct an invalid URL when appending a jsessionid. If this occurs the web server...

Flash Video: "Institute for Backup Trauma"

John Cleese in a Flash video entitled Institute for Backup Trauma about all that can go wrong with tape backups. This is an ad for a company named LiveVault, but worth watching anyway (all the way until the end, until the third button). ;-)

Programmatically Changing Flash Form Calendar Selectable Ranges

The Flash Forms calendar controls can restrict selectable date ranges. Fixes dates can be specified using the startRange and endRange attributes, but what if you need to programmatically change the ranges at runtime? The following example does just that, it uses two calendar controls to prompt for...

Metro Detroit, Get Ready For A CF Invasion!

When you think of Detroit you think of the automobile industry, Motown, various sports teams ... and probably not ColdFusion or Macromedia. Well, at least not initially. The fact of the matter is that there is a whole lot of Macromedia product being used in the area, and lots of ColdFusion too. And...

ColdFusion Flash Stuff

March 26, 2005

CFFORM.com Online

Looking for tips and tricks on using CFMX7 Flash Forms? Looking for those XForm examples I used in my demos? Mike Nimer (the Macromedia developer responsible for the new functionality) has created a site named CFFORM.com that is home to this and more. An RSS feed is available, too.

Wow! Flash Forms Can Do That?

For a truly astounding example of what can be accomplished using Flash Forms in CFMX7, check out AS Fusion's CF Presenter . And this is not even a form!

ColdFusion MX 7 And Flash Player Version Requirements

Lots of users have been asking about the Flash Player versions needed for ColdFusion MX 7 features. There are three ColdFusion MX 7 features that can take advantage of Flash, and the player requirements are different for each: Flash Forms require Flash Player version 7. FlashPaper requires Flash...

Online Time Tracking And Invoicing Application

I had the opportunity to play with an online time tracking application called Logware . The application, targeted at small businesses, is a hosted solution (for $9.99 a month) that can be used to track time spent on projects and then generate invoices that can be sent via e-mail. The front-end is...

Impressive Blackstone Powered Flash Forms

I've been demonstrating basic use of Blackstone Flash Forms for a while now; little things like pop-up calendars, simple tab dialogs and accordion controls, grids and trees in forms, input masking, basic events, and more. All very cool looking, or so I thought. But several developers have commented...