If you couldn’t tell, I’m suddenly desperate.
How do you remove an Alert component?
Alert.show returns a reference… but to what, I’m not sure. Additionally, the PopUp created via PopUpManager… where are he and the alert at depth-wise?
To use these components, should the rest of my components be using DeptManager instead of my own depths?
So many questions, so little time…
Copy cat post: Via <a href=”http://www.rolandschaer.ch/blog/archives/000055.php”>Roland Schaer</a>
Great example of light-weight video on a Flash site. Some yum design, subtle yet overtly cool transitions, and good use of sound with a low bandwidth budget. One neat concept they use to get you into their view of thinking is allowing you to roleplay ficticious characters of the future. Pretty neat choose your own adventure type gig.
…and, it’s got fine brit chix with cool accents.
<a href=”http://www.vodafone.com/flash/futures/”>Vodafone</a>
Going off of <a href=”http://www.helpqlodhelp.com/blog/archives/000086.html”>Bokel’s post</a>, my comments were not getting through, so I’ll respond here in hopes to enlighten. Besides, his code has helped many beyond me in the past.
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—The data from the server is zipped and has to be unzipped on the client.
If you used server-side PHP, you could then forward the data to Central.
—The data has to be organized in different folders, which have to be created on the client
Do these folders need to be accessible by the user? If so, not yet. If not, then just make a fake structure utilizing shared objects. You can display it in the Tree, but the user doesn’t have to know where the folders are.
—The trayIcon (windows) has to be changed
Central runs in the Tray be default, but you cannot toggle directly to your application; it defaults to Central’s main screen.
—The app needs a config manager to allow for “autostart” on/off and “always in foreground” on/off
An agent, which is a SWF that runs in the background but has no GUI, has the ability to auto-start once Central is started, whether its associated application is started or not. You could provide a user the ability to toggle this via reading in the preferences from a local so. Central provides a Preferences accessible through it’s menu, and/or you can provide your own.
However, the always in foreground will not currently work.
—The whole app has to be designed after the clients cd
It’s technically a Flash movie; you could brand whatever you wanted, although, your encouraged to use the Central components for small filesize, consistant UI, and ease of application updatability.
Hope that helps.
I know <a href=”http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/”>DevNet</a> probably has tons on this, but I still haven’t returned to that place after getting brain-scorched reading up on making Flash MX 2004 components; info overload, yo.