Flash Lite 4?

Ever since the release of Flex 2 I have been dabbling more and more in Flex and as I recently posted am looking at studying for and taking the Flex certification exam.

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Flash Player 9 for Solaris

We already can see H.264 quality video and hear HE-AAC quality audio from flash videos on Windows, Mac and Linux. Well now you Solaris geeks can experience it for yourselves with this Flash Player 9 update

Of course your videos need to have been properly encoded to witness the full beauty of this update but if don't have any videos you can see a demo here.

Now you can have your cake and eat it too!

ps: The updated flash version for Windows, Mac and Linux 9,0,115,0 can be found here

3.2 Billion Installs for Flash Player 9

The title says it all.

Ted Patrick posted today that Flash Player 9 has reached 3.2 billion installs by November 11th according to Akamai.

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Adobe buys Buzzword

I just heard about this little start up out of Boston called Virtual Ubiquity on a post on basement.org, they have created a feature rich online word processor using Flash. I signed up for a preview account and I have to say I am really impressed with the functionality and ease of use.

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Uploading Multiple Files

Ever wanted to build an application that allows the user to upload multiple files? Well we all know it can't really be done unless you use either a Java Applet or Flash.

Doing a Google search turns up all manner of applications to do just that. But I want something simple, nothing more than a text box, a browse button, an upload button and a progress bar. Unfortunately my search turned up nothing, so I set about building my own using Flex 3.0.

It isn't anything special but you can: 1) Change the background color by tagging on a query string 2) Have a javascript function on the page that passes the urlyour upload page and any other parameters you want to pass along to the SWF. 3) Have a javascript call back function on upload complete

It provides the functionality I want and that is to upload multiple files, without any other unnecessary fancy bits, and requires minimal setup too.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="380" height="78">
<param name="movie" value="Uploader.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<embed src="Uploader.swf?BackgroundColor=ffffff" wmode="opaque" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380" height="78" style="z-index:-100000 "></embed>
</object>

The Javascript functions:

<script language="javascript">
   function getPath(){
      return "upload.cfm?cfid=#cfid#&cftoken=#cftoken#&path=#uploadpath#"
   }
   function uploadComplete(){
      //do something here after the upload    }
</script>

And finally a screenshot:
1)Before Upload:

2)After Upload:


If you would like a copy send me an email: gary[ at ]garyrgilbert[ dot ]com or you could click the download link at the bottom of this post.