DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - Flash

CF Manager for SlideShowPro

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:07:00 +0100

A great little util for managing SlideShowPro libraries.

Flash Detection

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:49:00 +0100

Good old Ray Camden has blogged about Flash detection and has prompted an alternative to the Macromedia/Adobe solution. It's called FlashObject.

FlashTextEditor

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:10:00 +0100

Here's a good looking Flash based text editor called FlashTextEditor.

Slideshow in Flash

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:47:00 +0100

Alan Musselman has some examples of creating Flash slideshows from FIreworks.

Flash ActionScript 2.0 Learning Guide

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:02:00 +0100

Need to get into Flash right now, so this article from Macromedia on ActionScript 2.0 should be good.

An Introduction to CF Rich Forms

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 07:59:00 +0100

Chris Bizzell has an interesting article on using flash forms in CFMX7.

Debug Flash Remoting

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:59:00 +0100

Debugging Flash Remoting Using Service Capture

Flash Decomplier

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:48:00 +0100

Sean Tierney has found a great Flash decomplier called Sothink.

Flash Remoting

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:08:00 +0100

in researching Flash Remoting I found these resources:

Test Remote Method

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:04:00 +0100

This neat little Dreamweaver extension allows you to test a remote method. I found this really useful when testing a Flash Remoting issue.

JK Rowling Website

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:49:00 +0100

The JK Rowling Flash/ColdFusion website has been praised for it accessibility.

Sample Applications

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:56:00 +0100

Looking for example applications built with Macromedia products? I found this list of Macromedia sample applications in the del.icio.us side bar on cfmx.org.

There are Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver example apps there.

Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:47:00 +0100

Christian Cantrell's latest piece of work was co-developed by Mike Chambers. The Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit is a freely downloadable package that lets you seamlessly communicate between Flash and JavaScript. You can call JavaScript functions from Flash, and visa-versa. From their product page they state that:

While there have been ways to communicate between JavaScript and Flash in the past, they have not worked reliably across browsers and/or platforms. Furthermore, these techniques only allow you to pass strings between JavaScript and Flash, and not complex data types such as objects and arrays.

Samples of Accessible Flash

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:16:00 +0100

Here are some publicly available examples of accessible Flash.

Flash Slideshow

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:32:00 +0100

This clever app, well really it's just a Flash swf, will produce a Flash slideshow driven by an xml file.

It has navigation, transitions and support for sound.