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Flex Builder 2 is the official Adobe IDE for building and debugging Flex applications. Built on the popular Eclipse IDE, Flex Builder has built-in tools for writing, debugging, and building applications using Flex technologies such as MXML and ActionScript. Instead Flex Builder, you can opt to install the free Flex SDK, which includes the compiler and the Flex framework. You can then integrate the Flex framework with a different IDE, or you can use any text editor to edit the MXML and ActionScript files, and you can run the compiler from the command line.

Integrating with Data Services

Data services are an important aspect of most Flex applications. They are the way in which the Flex application can load and send data originating from a data tier such as a database

Flash Player supports any text data, XML, a binary messaging format called AMF, and persistent socket connections, allowing for real-time data pushed from the server to the client.

Integrating with Media Servers

Since Flex applications are deployed using Flash Player, they can leverage the media support for Flash video and audio. Although Flash Player can play back Flash video and MP3 audio as progressive downloads, you can benefit from true streaming media by way of a technology such as Flash Media Server.

Understanding How Flex Applications Work

Flex applications deployed on the Web work differently than HTML-based applications. Every Flex application deployed on the Web utilizes Flash Player as the deployment platform. All Flex applications require at least one MXML file or ActionScript class file, and most Flex applications utilize both MXML and ActionScript files.

A typical Flex application compiles to just one .swf file.You then deploy that one .swf to the server, and when requested, it plays back in Flash Player. That means that unlike HTML-based applications, the source code files remain on the development machine, and you do not deploy them to the production server. Asset files such as MP3s, CSS documents, and PNGs can be embedded within a .swf, or they can be loaded at runtime.

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Flex Tutorial Part I – Introducation about Flex

June 6, 2008

Flex

Flex is a collection of technologies that enables you to rapidly build applications deployed to Flash Player, a runtime environment for delivering sophisticated user interfaces and interactivity. Flex leverages existing, matured technologies and standards such as XML, web services, HTTP, Flash Player, and ActionScript.

Using the Flex framework you can build and compile to the .swf format. The compiled .swf file is an intermediate bytecode format that Flash Player can read. FlashPlayer 9 introduces a new virtual machine called AVM2. AVM2 brings the best of both worlds. Since .swf content is compiled to bytecode that the ActionScript virtual machine can understand, the .swf format is platformindependent.

The Flex framework is synonymous with the Flex class library and is a collection of ActionScript classes used by Flex applications. The Flex framework is written entirely in ActionScript classes, and defines controls, containers, and managers designed to simplify building rich Internet applications.

The categories of Flex Flex class library are

Form controls

Form controls are standard controls such as buttons, text inputs, text areas, lists, radio buttons, checkboxes, and combo boxes. In addition to the standard form controls familiar to most HTML developers, the Flex class library also includes controls such as a rich text editor, a color selector, a date selector, and more.

Menu controls

Flex provides a set of menu controls such as pop-up menus and menu bars.

Media components

One of the hallmarks of Flex applications is rich media support. The Flex class library provides a set of components for working with media such as images, audio, and video.

Layout containers

Flex applications enable highly configurable screen layout. The layout containers to place contents within a screen and determine how they willchange over time or when the user changes the dimensions of Flash Player. With a diverse set of container components you can create sophisticated layouts using grids, forms, boxes, canvases, and more. The elements can place with absolute or relative coordinates so that they can adjust correctly to different dimensions within Flash Player.

Data components and data binding

Flex applications are generally distributed applications that make remote procedure calls to data services residing on servers. The data components consist of connectors that simplify the procedure calls, data models to hold the data that is returned, and data binding functionality to automatically associate form control data with data models.

Formatters and validators

Data that is returned from remote procedure calls often needs to be formatted before getting displayed to the user.

The Flex class library includes a robust set of formatting features (format a date in a variety of string representations, format a number with specific precision, format a number as a phone number string, etc.) to accomplish that task.

Likewise, when sending data to a data service from user input, you’ll frequently need to validate the data beforehand to ensure it is in the correct form. The Flex class library includes a set of validators for just that purpose.

Cursor management

Unlike traditional web applications, Flex applications are stateful, and they don’t have to do a complete screen refresh each time data is sent or requested from a data service. However, since remote procedure calls often incur network and system latency, it’s important to notify the user when the client is waiting on a response from the data service. Cursor management enables Flex applications to change the cursor appearance in order to notify the user of such changes.

State management

A Flex application will frequently require many state changes. For example, standard operations such as registering for a new account or making a purchase usually require several screens. The Flex class library provides classes for managing those changes in state. State management works not only at the macro level for screen changes, but also at the micro level for state changes within individual components.

Flex provides the ability to easily apply transitions so that state changes are animated.

Effects

Flex applications aren’t limited by the constraints of traditional web applications. Since Flex applications run within Flash Player, they can utilize the animation features of Flash. As such, the Flex class library enables an assortment of effects such as fades, zooms, blurs, and glows.

History management

As states change within a Flex application, the history management features of the Flex class library enable you to navigate from state to state using the back and forward buttons of the web browser.

Drag and drop management

The Flex class library simplifies adding drag and drop functionality to components with built-in drag and drop functionality on select components and a manager class that allows you to quickly add drag and drop behaviors to components.

Tool tips

Use this feature of the Flex class library to add tool tips to elements as the user moves the mouse over them.

Style management

The Flex class library enables a great deal of control over how nearly every aspect of a Flex application is styled. You can apply style changes such as color and font settings to most controls and containers directly to the objects or via CSS.

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WEB Based SIP Phone With Flex, Java and Red5 Server

June 5, 2008

SIP

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is the most popular Voice over IP (VoIP) standard. SIP enables two or more people to make phone calls to each other using the Internet to carry the call.

By using the Internet, you gain some distinct advantages over traditional telephone calls or PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network):

Call quality: SIP calls on broadband are digital quality calls across the street or across the globe.
Cost: SIP to SIP calls are always free and calls to old PSTN phones are very inexpensive with no taxes or monthly fees.
Features: Because SIP calls are part of the Internet you get great features like free voicemail to email and phone numbers from many places in the world no matter where you live.

There are lot of sip phone is available in the internet, but all are application software which we want to install in system. This make lot of trouble ex: port problem as like that.

Using Flex, Java and Red5 Server we can develop Web Sip Application. The main advantage of these phone is no need to install at client side. Simply we can browse application and we can register and make call.

Steps to setup these Application.

1) Install Red5 Server

You can Download from these site RED5 Download Link

2) Download sip.zip file from following link and unzip it, move the sip folder to webapps (where u installed Red5 Server path)

SIP Application for Standalone Red5 Server is http://red5.4ng.net/sip.zip.

You will need to replace version 0.7 red5.jar with the latest from SVN or this http://red5.4ng.net/red5.jar

Check the Red5 server( Start service of Red5 Server if it is not start)

Run red5phone application with http://localhost:5080/sip

These Diagram show working flow of sip phone with web browser.

Orgin from

Click here to known more about SIP

To Get SIP Service Click here – MPINGI

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Super Star Life Story in CBSE Syllabus

May 30, 2008

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http://rajanifans.wordpress.com/

http://www.rajinifans.com/moving_stills/

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Online FM Radio – Enjoy the Day with music

May 30, 2008

Hi you can hear FM Radio Stations from your PC or laptop, No need to download , on line streaming.

Tamil Channel From chennai

Create a login account for Suryan FM, no email verification

Suryan FM – From these link u can here suryan FM Famous FM in Tamil Nadu

No Need to create login account:

Shyam Radio

AaHAa FM 91.9

Play with Windows Media Player

http://www.numtv.com/tvchannel/asx/radio.asx

All FM in one Place

http://www.tunein.in/home.shtml

http://tamilradiofm.blogspot.com/

And Some other use links

Surf Music

Enjoy the Day with music

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Developing our own skin for Flex

May 22, 2008

Yahoo! has released new flex skin. This is very basic but sleek skin.

Click Here to View yahoo skin.

Click here to download

Skinning in Flex is a simple way to modify the appearance of Flex components with a small amount of work.

We can also create our own skin for flex Click here to view very simple tutorial from yahoo

In that link article,they demonstrating how to create a simple skin element in Flash for use in Flex Builder. With this skin, we will style the Button element with our own simple color design.

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Flex Tutorial & Demo Link

May 22, 2008

FLEX

Flex is a framework that helps you build dynamic, interactive rich Internet applications. Flex applications are delivered on the web via the Flash Player or to the desktop via Adobe AIR. You can build applications using the free Flex SDK or Flex Builder, an Eclipse based IDE.

Flex is available for Java developers , .NET developers , PHP developers, and ColdFusion developers.

Some use full Flex Tutorial Link

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/explorer/explorer.html

Flex Sample Application (Felx & Java & HSQL) using Avil framework:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=174131

Getting Start With

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Getting+Started

Flex For ASP.NET Developers

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Flex+and+ASP.NET

Flex For Java Developers

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Flex+and+Java

Flex For PHP Developers

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Flex+and+PHP

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm

And Some other related links:

http://flex.7wilds.com/

http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/Animated+overview

Flex With 3D

http://www.cornflex.org/?p=1

http://www.papervision3d.org/

Some Demo Web Site

http://flex.org/showcase/

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/networkmonitor/main.html – Network Monitor

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal – Text to Speech

http://hessian.caucho.com/ria/Words.swf

http://app.lightstreamer.com/FlexDemo/

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/mediawidget/index.html#

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/flexstore/flexstore.html

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/labs/dashboard/main.html#

(Yahoo Maps Collaboration using Flex and BlazeDS)

http://www.jamesward.org/census/

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