I have uploaded the project files for CFC Spry Rating to RIAForge for your enjoyment.

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The release of Spry 1.6.1 didn't ensure the continued support for Adobe AIR but also came with a new widget called the ratings widget.

A little Ajax widget with some potential to be entirely over-used at least by me. As with most Spry widgets its ridiculously easy to use and setup. But not wanting to stop there I decided to create a custom component that would make it even easier oh and hook into a database to save the results (mySql only at this point).

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A reader recently asked about my Spry Panel with Dynamic Content post:

How do I extend it to automatically generate each TAB from an external file as well.

The tabs are generated from [an] external XML data (the XML contains the link to be run when the Tab is clicked), and then each tab generates it's content when it is clicked.

In my post the tabs were hard coded, to dynamically generate the tabs using an xml file and then dynamically load the content specified in the xml file it's just a little bit more work (but less typing!).

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I've been looking for a example of using a HTMl rich text editor in a customer site to provide the ability for wysiwyg style editing of content items.

Basically the page would be displayed as a user would see it, they would then click (or double click) on the content item in question which would then be replaced with either a text box or rich text editor where appropriate. Much like flickr does with the image title and description but also with the rich text capabilities. A lot of commercial content management systems provide this type of functionality already but I haven't been able to find an example that I could easily rip off duplicate.

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I've been on vacation and have enjoyed spending time away from everything programming related (as best I can, which by the way isn't very good), but Monday is back-to-work day for me, but I thought I would get back into it a bit early.

On my iGoogle home page I have a quote of the day widget and I kind of like it but it only displays 3 quotes and it's pretty much static the whole day through. I thought I would create a quote of the day using spry and CF. I could have just pointed spry at the RSS feed but the website specifically asks not to hit it more than once every two hours.

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Last week I posted about loading dynamic content into a Spry Tabbed Panel, which as we learned ended up being pretty easy.

The tricky bit comes when your dynamic content is also Spry content. By default when you use the HTMLPanel it doesn't parse any javascript on the page. But you can enable script parsing on pages using two different methods.

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I am continually impressed with how lightweight and simple the spry framework is to work with. It's not a solution for everyone but to do some simple Ajax things it's really quite simple.

I was looking at an idea to do a tabbed dialog box, the content of the dialog boxes should be loaded when the tab is clicked. Simple stuff really but Spry makes it really simple.

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