One More Reason to get Flash Player 9

I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia.

Here is an excerpt:

The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file

Continue Reading Add comment July 12th, 2006

AdvancedForm Component (Undo,Redo,Reset)

The Advanced Form component provides Reset, Undo and Redo functionality.

It came up recently about how to clear out a Form after submitting data to a backend. The basic idea was to reset the form to the initial values. Well, then I got thinking that the solution to that problem also lends it self to make a history of changes. Thats where the Undo/Redo features come into play.

Continue Reading Add comment July 12th, 2006

Flex 2 RollOverButton Examples

Examples showing how to implement a basic Image roll over functionality using the Button and Image controls. The examples shows ActionScript and Custom component ways of accomplishing the same thing.

Continue Reading 2 comments July 11th, 2006

Flash Player 9 Penetration

(update) Myspace.com hack to help Flash Player 9 pentration numbers.

It has been basically 8 days since the release of Flash Player 9. We have all been told that the pentration of this browser should gain a larger percentage faster then earlier Flash Players. This is because of the newer improvement installation methods.

Continue Reading 8 comments July 7th, 2006

Opera Mobile 8.6 support Flash? which Flash Player and PocketPC

On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].

There is a bit of information that sparked my attention:

“Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash.”

Continue Reading 6 comments July 7th, 2006

Download JPG’s with ColdFusion from a Linux server

I am working on a Flex and ColdFusion file upload/download component and came across the fun Linux and Windows file format issues. The files will upload correctly but if you try and pull down a JPG file form the linux server with ColdFusion’s tag with the default charset it will not come down correctly.

Continue Reading 2 comments July 7th, 2006

Flex 2 MXNA RSS Reader Example #2 (HTTPService)

This example RSS Reader does exactly what my first Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA) RSS Reader Example does, except it uses HTTPService to do it with.
MXNA can be found here http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/.

Continue Reading 5 comments July 5th, 2006

Flex 2 MXNA RSS Reader Example

This example RSS Reader is specific to reading the Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA).
MXNA can be found here http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna/.

This example shows how to load external XML data (ie: RSS feed or Atom feed) and parse through the data.
It display the data using a repeatar class and uses navigateToUrl to provide links back to the
blog posts themselves.

To see the application run go to http://renaun.com/flex2/MXNARSSReader/
To see the application’s source code go to http://renaun.com/flex2/MXNARSSReader/srcview/

9 comments July 4th, 2006