Flash Forms

Adobe Flash and Flex Accessibility with Screen Readers

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EDT

First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post. But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a read, there is good news. Flash Player has the ability to detect if a screen reader is running on the client machine, even if JavaScript is disabled and/or the Flex application is not compiled as an “accessible swf”. This is possible with the Accessibility class.

Will Corporate America Embrace the iPhone?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Apple is a “change” company. Look at their track record: Mac II, iMac, iPod and now the iPhone. What has not changed, however, is the view of Apple a company that delivers only consumer based products. Apple simply is not perceived as an Enterprise company. Apple is working to change this perception. It is a slow process but something came along to change the pace: the iPhone.

Creating and Accessing Pop-up Menus in AIR Applications with Flash CS4

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Reading my previous AIR tutorials, you’ve worked with menus that are associated with tangible elements of your applications, such as the following: Context menus that are activated on objects on the stage Context menus associated with icons in the system tray or dock bar Menus associated with windows and menus of the application itself AIR applications also allow you to create pop- up menus . These are native menus like all the other ones you’ve seen so far—the only difference is that pop- up menus aren’t natively associated with any element on the interface of the application. It’s up to the developer to define and implement the logic and the way in which a pop- up menu can be activated

Adobe AIR: Creating Dock and System Tray Icon Menus

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:15:00 EDT

The AIR runtime allows you to manage and interact with the system tray and dock bar icons of your application. You can define context menus for them. On Microsoft Windows systems, the icons in the system tray don’t have any default context menus, so unless you have a specially prepared menu to display, it won’t provide a context menu. Mac OS X systems, on the other hand, have a default menu for dock bar icons. The menus you create will be added to the default menu provided by the operating system. You can’t modify or remove the default menus provided by the system for dock bar icons. The application you will create in the next section will run on both Windows and Mac OS X.

Clear Data Builder 3.0 is Free Now

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:15:00 EDT

The popular code generator Clear Data Builder will become available free of charge. Originally, Clear Data Builder was released as a command-line open source code generator a.k.a. DaoFlex. We've submitted it to Adobe Flex component exchange about two years ago, and it quickly became one of the most downloadable components.

Flash Forms to the Rescue

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:15:00 EDT

Six months ago I was anxious to get the chance to upgrade our Web servers to Adobe ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition. During a product re-design, I realized how advantageous it would be for our customers to start using the new Flash Forms feature versus the standard HTML tables they had been using for years. The sorting and scrolling capabilities alone would be a hit.

Easy Flash Dashboards

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:00:00 EST

Dashboards are user interfaces that organize and present information intuitively, usually with graphical elements. The information is often aggregated from several sources (databases, operational metrics, log files, etc.) and summarized. They are often used by decision or policy makers.

Constructing an Application with Flash Forms from the Ground Up

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:00:00 EDT

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.