Central
News.com ran an article on Central, this morning a large section of which is a rehash of Jesse Ezell’s previous pronouncements that “Central is failing”. Not much new information is brought up in the article, although this did catch …
The single most requested feature for Central has been File I/O support. So, how would you want File I/O implemented in Central? What would you use it for? What features / abilities do you want?
How would you rank the following in order of importance …
I have just uploaded the 1.0 version of the Stand-alone Central Trace Panel for Mac OS X. This is a wrapper for the Central Trace panel included on the Central SDK.
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The Central Trace Panel includes …
If you have used the Central trace panel, you may have noticed the “App Name Filter” text field in the bottom left of the panel. This is used to filter trace messages coming from Central so you only see messages coming from your …
I just finished an article on using the Central Accordion Tab component. It will be on the Central DevNet Center in a week, but I thought I would go ahead and give a sneak peak.
Below is an excerpt from the article that shows how to manage …
I have released a new version of the Central developer chat. It is still a “beta” version, but I think you can see we have made a lot of progress.
Lots of new stuff in this version, including:
Connections moved to Agent (don’t …
Last week at the MAX Keynote, AOL and Macromedia announced that it would be opening it IM (AIM / ICQ) network to Central developers. This is the first time that AOL has ever opened its network up to outside developers. Throughout the conference we …
I have created a simple shell that allows the Central Debug panel to run outside of the Flash IDE. Among other things, it allows you to set the panel to always be on top, which makes it easy to watch trace information from Central.
Requirements: …
Wow! Things have been crazy the past couple of weeks. There have been a ton of announcements coming out of Max. I am too tired right now to list all of them, or point out the ton of new Central related content on the website, but I did want to point …
A couple of people have noticed that there is a new version of Central available, but have run into some issues with it.
Well, here are the solutions:
DevChat won’t install Beta product ids will not work in the final version of Central. The …
We will be giving out some Central posters at the MAX conference. The posters are developer reference guides, and really look nice.
You can see a (small) sneak peak here:
You can download a PDF of the poster here .
We won’t have tubes for them, …
I was playing around with Flash MX Pro 2004 last night, and created this simple Central API viewer.
How much code did this take?
var myTreeDP = new XML(); myTreeDP.ignoreWhite = true; myTreeDP.load("central.xml"); pBar.indeterminate = true; …
Because applications running within Central use the Central API and because those APIs are not available within the Flash Authoring environment, you have to test and debug your applications within Central itself. This is actually pretty simple, and …
I have put together a quick, step by step guide to getting started with application development for Central.
Note that all page numbers refer to the Developing Central Applications pdf included on the SDK.
Download and install Macromedia Central. …
I have put together a FAQ for the Central Developer (SDK) Beta. This will eventually be posted on our website, but I am posting this here to get the info out as quickly as possible.
General What is the Macromedia Central Public Developer Beta? The …
Wow. Lots of stuff going on in the Central community the past couple of days. First of all, a new Central community site has launched. CentralMX.com already has a ton of information and news, and has plans for tutorials and forums.
Geoffrey Williams …
I have been working on using the chat framework that Greg Burch and I put together to build a simple chat application for Macromedia Central. I is not complete, but I figured that people might be interested in checking it out.
You can install it …
We have just launched a public beta of Macromedia Central in conjunction with Intel’s one unwired day. The beta is focused on giving users a chance to check out Macromedia Central before the final version is released.
The public beta includes: …
Oscar Trelles, commenting on Sean Voisen’s post about Central notes that he feels that discussion about Macromedia Central has died down recently and wonders if it is still on track.
Well, considering that Central is still in beta, we have …
Probably the biggest announcement from this morning’s keynote, was Macromedia Central. Macromedia Central is a desktop environment for running rich, occasionally-connected applications.
Kevin showed how simple it was to install Central through …
