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Archive for May, 2005

Swap components extension

( JSFL )

Update: Now works for upgrading from v1 to v2 components.

This command swaps all of the selected components with another item in the library, keeping the same properties. Could be used for:

Swapping MM components and Bit components (use the compatibility option to make up for inconsistent property names) Swapping checkboxes with radio buttons Swapping Lists with combo boxes

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AMFPHP site design contest with tons of fabulous prizes!

( News and Remoting and PHP and Misc. )

First of all, I would like to announce the official new AMFPHP logo, a wonderful entry by Philip Ringli of Sichtwerk:

And now it’s time to announce the newest contest for the AMFPHP website. A few people have pointed out that we didn’t make enough efforts to bring in talented designers to the last contest. Well, […]

LocalConnection/hidden iFrame gotcha, and a bunch of new acronyms

( News and Actionscript and PHP )

I spent the better part of the day implementing Martijn de Visser’s ExternalFunction method which allows seamless Flash/JavaScript communication using a FlashVars, an iFrame and LocalConnection. Well apparently if the script is loaded into an iframe and that iframe has a display:none setting in CSS it will fail. This is actually a pretty standard situation […]

Remoting: Making RelayResponder act like Delegate

Before there was mx.utils.Delegate, there was mx.rpc.RelayResponder, which does sort of the same thing but in the context of Remoting callbacks. It’s used like so:

var pc:PendingCall = service.doStuff(); pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, “handleOk”, “handleRemotingError”);  

Well I really like mx.utils.Delegate and I think the syntax would benefit from being consistent across the two. So I’ve created a new […]

phpMyAdmin-like MySQL manager for ColdFusion 4?

( Misc. )

I’m doing some patch work for a client and their whole system runs ColdFusion 4 (we’re talking about simpler days when it was called Allaire ColdFusion) and I really need something like phpMyAdmin to manage the data. CFMyAdmin requires ColdFusion 5. PHP isn’t installed on the server. The SQL server is not exposed to […]