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Aug
12

File upload explained and expanded

128 comments Posted by: Laura

As we showed in our post File Upload with ColdFusion Flash Forms, file upload is now possible with Flash 8. I introduced it with a custom tag that nicely wraps the functionality of the file upload. It is quite flexible, -hopefully- easy to use, and I believe I’ll use it whenever I need to add a file field in my flash forms. But for those of you who are curious to know how it works, or need additional functionality (which I may add to the tag in the future), this is a walk through the main functions that make it work.

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Aug
12

Custom CFTree icons

25 comments Posted by: Laura

Custom icons in cftreeHave you ever wondered if it was possible to change the folder icons in the Flash version of cftree? The answer is yes, with a little of workaround.

This example will show you how to change the opened/closed folder icon, the leaf icon, the icon of a specific node, and the default triangles that open and close nodes. Because we need to set the default values before the data is loaded, we cannot change the icons of an already loaded cftee, unless we change each of the nodes one by one.

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Aug
12

Custom cursors in cfform

9 comments Posted by: Laura

Custom cursorWhen a flash form loads, it shows a preloader. After that, while the data that populates the form gets retrieved, a small icon with an animated clock is shown to indicate that something else is coming. I think it is very important to show progress to the user, and that is why I like the new Flash I/O for uploading files because we can show exactly what’s going on.

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Aug
08

File Upload with ColdFusion Flash Forms

364 comments Posted by: Laura

File Upload with cfform
At last! File upload was, in my opinion, one of the most important missing features for Flash RIAs to be taken seriously. One of the reasons we couldn’t reproduce HTML forms with Flash CFForm was the file upload. But now that the new Flash Player has file I/O features, we can use it to incorporate them to Flash forms, and make it even better than regular file upload, with more user feedback such as progress bars. As you may expect, you need the Flash Player 8 to run this example. In the zip file you will find a custom tag, an example, and a swf file.

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