CMXApplications
Quick Shot - Splitting Names In ColdFusion
by Ray West - 31-Jan-08
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We receive a lot of data at my day job and usually need to find a way to squeeze it into one of the many databases we manage. I am always surprised how often we are given names in a single field in the lastname, firstname format. It always seems more flexible to store the first and last names in separate fields, but apparently a lot of places don’t do that.
Seeing as we do, we find ourselves needing to split that full name into a first name field and a last name field. I will show you a couple of ways to do that with ColdFusion.
CMX MP3 Player (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 07-Apr-05
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The CMX MP3 Player component enables you to load external MP3s from an XML playlist. Features include track info display (title, artist), elapsed and remaining time, audio scrubber, volume slider, and playlist navigation.
Preview MP3 Player
Requirements: Flash MX 2004 (pro or standard), Flash Player 7
CMX Slideshow (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 24-Mar-05
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This extension for Flash MX 2004 loads external JPEG and SWF files to create a Flash slideshow. The CMX Slideshow component is very customizable and includes support for hyperlinks, captions, padding, resizing, transitions, controls, and much more.
You can also access CMX Slideshow's methods, properties, and events using ActionScript. The support files demonstrate how to create your own custom controls, and how to load a list of images from an external XML file.
Preventing Caching in Flash Player
by Paul Newman - 24-Jan-05
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In this article, you'll learn how to use CacheManager, an ActionScript 2.0 class, to prevent Flash Player from caching external images, XML, and text files in your applications.
CMX Flash Video Player (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 06-Jan-05
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This Flash MX 2004 extension enables you to play back progressive Flash video (FLV) files in your Flash movies. Features include play/pause button, FLV download progress bar, real-time scrubbing, volume slider, and mute button.
Because this extension uses the NetConnection and NetStream classes, the resulting SWF file is only 5K in size, so it doesn't require a preloader. In addition, the methods, properties, and events of the component can be manipulated using ActionScript 2.0. There's even an event that broadcasts FLV metadata!
Preview CMX Flash Video Player
Includes: CMXFlashVideoPlayer.mxp, demo files, sample videos
CMX Blog Scroller
by Paul Newman - 08-Sep-04
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This Flash component enables you to display one or more RSS feeds in Flash Player 7 with a number of customizable options. CMX Blog Scroller automatically parses the XML and displays the latest blog entries.
Includes: CMXBlogScroller.mxp, ColdFusion proxy script, sample FLA file, PDF
Flash Your Cookies
by Paul Newman - 11-Aug-04
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Have you ever wanted to store persistent information in your Flash movies? Shared objects are the answer. You can use them to save login information, shopping cart data, user preferences, even complex objects like arrays.
This extension for Flash MX 2004 adds an ActionScript 2.0 class called "Cookie" to your global classpath. The Cookie wrapper class provides a more intuitive way to write, read, edit, and remove Flash "cookies" in your applications.
Community MXtra for Flash 2004
by Paul Newman - 21-Oct-03
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This Floating Panel for Flash MX 2004 enables you to search for articles on CommunityMX.com, or browse content using a calendar. Now you don't have to leave Flash to find the latest articles on Community MX.
