FLEX 2 Released
Posted by Hilary Bridel on 28th June 2006
Adobe just released FLEX 2 and Coldfusion 7.02 update.
Congratulations to all the crew at Adobe/Macromedia for a fantastic product.
Whoo Hoo…
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Archive for June, 2006
My Flex Application Wins at the FLEX ROW Contest
Posted by Hilary Bridel on 28th June 2006
Wow, can you believe it? I can’t. I was not expecting a win.
My 13 year old daughter wants to know how she can claim her prize. 
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MovieClips in AS3/Flex
Posted by Hilary Bridel on 18th June 2006
I have started another project in Flex, which will be mostly built with Actionscript 3. One of the requirements is to have an imported SWF containing a movieClip with images on each frame, frame names, and the ability to use gotoAndPlay/gotoAndStop.
According to the docs, you can’t use a previous Flash version SWF to do this. Only AS3 movieclips can be manipulated in this way. The problem is, you can’t programmatically create a movieclip in AS3; we have to wait for the new Flash IDE (Blaze) to do that.
Ali Mills has come up with a way of using Flash 8 SWF’s to do this using localConnection. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like a great workaround.
I’ll let you know how I get on…
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Flex Australian Weather Observations
Posted by Hilary Bridel on 7th June 2006
A couple of years ago I put together an application to learn the functionality of Macromedia Central. The backend uses Coldfusion MX 6.1 Webservices, and a bit of CF code to scrape public content from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology web site (with their permission).
I used the same webservice to feed my first demo Flex application for the ROW Flex derby by Rocketboots. The application is not finished by any means, and only contains data for South Australia and New South Wales weather observations. I have lots of ideas, but ran out of time.
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