Using CF.query with ServerSide ActionScript in JRun

Many of you already aware that CF.query method is available for ServerSide ActionScript only in Coldfusion to query a database. There is no such object available in JRun 4.0. Tom Muck created an object for JRun 4 ServerSide ActionScript that adds a CF.query() method...

Remoting Helper Component

Many Java, .NET and Coldfusion MX developers are now jumping into Flash Remoting. The problem they face when they are not much familiar with actionsript is in testing their server side remoting script. Every time they have to go to the flash developer for testing. To...

Stripping HTML Tags using XML

There is a thread going on in flashcoders mailing list about how to stripp the HTML tags in the string. Here is my version to do the same using XML. It can be used to remove specific tags from the given string. Even though we can use flash textField for this purpose...

New Public Flash Player is released

After a big round of beta testing public version is now released. Also it is the first Flash 6 Player for Linux with full support for Remoting, Video playback, and Flash Communication server. You can download the updated version here. [via:Mesh on MX]

Arul’s Blog now syndicated in FLOG

Today flog started syndicating my blog. Thanks to David Humphreys, now my blog has more wider coverage. Also I’ve noticed that goggle ranking for the blog page is jumped from 4 to 7 (when I started this blog 4 months back it was only 3). Links given in MoiK78...

Macromedia Tips Library

I just noticed that Macromedia now has a Tips Library in the Designer & Developer Center, where we can share our favorite product tips. Take a look and post your tips at http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tips_library?

Actionscript Syntax Highlighting with SciTE|Flash

Many of you might already know how handy it is to edit ActionScript with SciTE|Flash, for those who do not know SciTE|Flash is a text editor from BomberStudios for editing ActionScript, free download is available in their website. One of the nice features which...

Creating Unique Random Response

Whether we are developing a game or e-learning application we need to create random response which is unique and not repeating. Say for example if you are developing a Quiz application where you have 10 questions, you want to pick the question randomly, but the same...

Creating a Talking Application in Flash

Here I will show how to create a light weight talking application in flash. It is one of the Examples I showed in the Singapore User Group Session. Our task is fairly simple, Creating an audio file (preferably MP3) with all the words we want our application to speak....

Screenweaver MX Beta 3 is released

The current Flash player is primarily used to display Flash content that was initially created for the web. Screenweaver is an extension to the Flash player that aims at providing Flash developers with a toolset to produce rich media desktop applications. By doing so...