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June 28, 2009

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July 4, 2008
"Google and Yahoo! now have optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to enhance search engine indexing of SWF files. Best of all, developers don't have to do anything to their published SWFs for them to be indexed." - Holy crap!

Adobe has provided Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! that allows their search spiders to navigate through a live SWF application as if they were virtual users. The Flash Player technology, optimized for search spiders, runs a SWF file similarly to how the file would run in Adobe Flash Player in the browser, yet it returns all of the text and links that occur at any state of the application back to the search spider, which then appears in search results to the end user.

This has been a problem for a long time. Great to hear that Adobe is working with these search giants to make this happen - exciting times for RIA developers!

SWF searchability...

September 30, 2007
Override the default icon in the Adobe Flex CheckBox control and replace it with custom embedded graphics...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical"
verticalAlign="middle"
backgroundColor="white">


<mx:Style>
CheckBox {
/* Unselected icons */
upIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_red.png");
overIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_red.png");
downIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_yellow.png");
/* Selected icons */
selectedUpIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_green.png");
selectedOverIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_green.png");
selectedDownIcon: Embed(source="assets/bullet_yellow.png");
}
</mx:Style>

<mx:CheckBox id="x1"
label="CheckBox Label Here..."
fontSize="10"
fontWeight="bold"/>

</mx:Application>

September 11, 2007
If you are trying to manage the little busy cursor in Flex while data or whatever it is you are waiting on is loading, you can use the CursorManager class to accomplish this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical" verticalAlign="middle">


<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.managers.CursorManager;
]]>
</mx:Script>

<mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
<mx:Button label="setBusyCursor()"
click="CursorManager.setBusyCursor();" />


<mx:Button label="removeBusyCursor()"
click="CursorManager.removeBusyCursor();" />

</mx:ApplicationControlBar>
</mx:Application>

July 30, 2006
I just completed my first round of Adobe Flex classes. All I have to say is what an amazing product. I can't wait to dive into building RIA's. It's somewhat difficult for me to change my way of thinking when approaching an application but it's just how it is. This aint your brother's web application.

I plan to post my comments on the class and my findings here.













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