Tomorrow Tuesday 10/24 at 11:45am on the 5th floor at the Venetian I am going to do a demo of the app I have been working on. If you at MAX, please stop by.

Rich

Rob Gonda, Ben Forta, and Ray Camden have unveiled a secret project they have been working on for the past few months.

Here is the description taken from Rob’s blog:
RIAForge is a place to host open source projects built with Adobe technologies - from ColdFusion applications to Photoshop plug-ins to Flex components and more. And of course the site is built using those same technologies.

RIAForge features:

• A unique project URL
• File hosting
• Bug tracking
• Forums
• Blogging
• Basic stats
• Subversion access
• … and more

I an personally very excited about this project and look for great things to come from the outstanding Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion communites.   I have added a permanent link to RIAForge in the resources section of EverythingFlex.com.  Get involved and lets build some great new community projects.

Visit RIAForge.org today and give a big thank you for their hard work to Rob, Ben and Ray if you see them at MAX.

Rich

Many of you already know that the Adobe Consulting team has been working on a calander component.  They have yet to release this component (maybe at Max next week)?  In the mean time Ely Greenfield has posted a prooof of concept calendar component that is very cool.  He has not yet posted the source code but does intend to make it open source and are looking for contributors.  Check it out by visiting is blog at http://www.quietlyscheming.com/blog/components/interactive-calendar/

Rich

Let’s go Full Screen with our Flex apps.  Thanks to the new Flash Player beta it
is so easy to do.
The following is a very simple sample of going full screen.  The only key point to
this is that it must be something that is triggered by user interaction.

YOU CAN NOT FORCE A USER INTO FULL SCREEN MODE.
ALSO, REMEMBER THAT THE KEYBOARD ENTRIES ARE NOT ALLOWED WHILE IN FULL SCREEN MODE.
Thanks to ohwhen for pointing this out. 

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>


<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”
    backgroundGradientColors=”[#8080ff, #400040]“>
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
        import flash.display.StageDisplayState;


        private function toggle():void{
            if(fs.selected == true){
                this.goFullScreen();
            } else {
                this.exitFullScreen();
            }
        }


        private function goFullScreen():void {
               stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
        }
        private function exitFullScreen():void {
               stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.NORMAL;
        }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>


    <mx:Panel width=”100%” height=”100%” title=”Very Basic Full Screen Sample”
	layout=”absolute“>
        <mx:CheckBox label=”Full Screen” id=”fs” click=”this.toggle()”
	    horizontalCenter=”0” verticalCenter=”0“/>
    </mx:Panel>


</mx:Application>

You must also add a new <object> and <embed> tag parameter,
allowFullScreen

, to
their HTML. This parameter defaults to
false

, or not allowing full screen.
To allow full-screen, developers must set
allowFullScreen

to
true

in their
<object>/<embed> tags.

Right Click on application to view & download Source Code.

Run This Code

Note: you must new Beta Flash Player for this to work.

Rich

I received some great news in an email this morning from Kevin.  Kevin Kazmierczak has decided to make his Flex Derby winning SQLAdmin application an open source project on source forge.  It should be very helpful to any developer trying to learn Flex or Cairngorm.  I applaud Kevin for his contribution to the community.  Be sure to say thanks to him when you get the chance.  Here are the links:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexsqladmin/
http://www.flexsqladmin.com

Here is some information about the application:

Winner Components and Gadgets
SQLAdmin—(Flash Player 9 Required)
SQLAdmin is an online version of query analyzer for Microsoft SQL Server. Features include a graphical execution plan, syntax highlighting, live table editing, tabbed query windows, an object browser and more. Click on a table name from the object browser to popup a menu to generate select, insert, update, or delete scripts or to open the table for live data editing.

Technology Flex 2.0
Developer Kevin Kazmierczak
Kevin Kazmierczak is the senior software developer for Citynet, a telecommunications company in Bridgeport, West Virginia. He graduated from Alfred University with a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration and spends most of his time programming in ColdFusion. He’s a Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer and has written an article published in the ColdFusion Developers Journal.

Rich