I hope that everyone had a good holiday. I am back from some “time off” and am trying to get back into the swing of things. It looks like I finally have the resources necessary to post some DRK 2 (or 1) examples online, so if there is anything in particular that would like to see, let me know.

More posts a little later…

The Edge Newsletter is running a promotion where subscribers to the newsletter can receive 10% off of the DRK (it doesn’t specify if it is DRK 1, 2 or both). Unfortunately, I just found out about it today, and today is the last day that the offer is available.

You can find more info on the offer here.

Btw, this months newsletter has a good article on Flash Remoting.

I have put up a simple example using the Advanced Calendar and Color Picker components. The components are part of the Flash UI Component Set 54which is available of volume 2 of the Developer Resource Kit.

You can view the example here.

I will try and get some additional examples up soon.

Volume 2 of the Macromedia Developer Resource Kit is available today. This volume contains Flash, Flash Remoting, ColdFusion, Fireworks and Dreamweaver content.

The Flash content includes:

Flash UI Component Set 4, which includes the following components:

• Rich Text Editor
• Smart Combo Box
• Advanced Calendar
• Color Picker
• Simple Menu
• MyPhoto Rich Internet Application : Sample Application
• A ton of chapters from some of the newest and most popular books on creating Flash content, and Rich Internet applications. (I will put up a list of books / chapters shortly).
• August to October Designer and Developer Center Archive.

Of course, Volume 1 is still available.

I have found an issue with the Stock Services sample application and ActionScript / ColdFusion Library available on the DRK. In the Stock.cfc ColdFusion component file, the following code that starts at line 89:

<cfset var startMonth = Month(startDate) />
<cfset var startDay = Day(startDate)/>
<cfset var startYear = Year(startDate) />
<cfset var endMonth = Month(endDate) />

should be changed to:

<cfset var startMonth = Month(startDate) - 1 />
<cfset var startDay = Day(startDate)/>
<cfset var startYear = Year(startDate) />
<cfset var endMonth = Month(endDate) - 1 />

If you noticed that the sample stock charting application began acting erratically, this should solve the problem. Sorry for the hassle.

We are getting a couple of reports of people having problems installing extensions / components from the Developer Resource Kit (DRK). If you have a problem, there are two work arounds:

1. When the extension manager opens, save the extension to your hard-drive, and install it from there.
2. Manually copy the extension from the CD to the hard-drive and then install.

Using one of the steps above should solve the problem.

Stuart Schoneveld (illogicz.com) has put together a couple of examples showing the ToolTip component from the Macromedia Developer Resource Kit (DRK).

You can view them here.

Fridays are usually slow, so i decided to put together another quick example of the datagrid component available on the Macromedia MX Developer Resource Kit.

You can view the new example here.

Among other features, the example shows off editable fields, and formatting via style properties.

You can see the original example here.

Update 9/14 : I have updated the example to include an index column, and to show how to add a custom sort function.

Just a quick FYI. We have updated the information on the DataGrid component on the Developer Resource Kit website. It now includes a listing of some of the features of the component.

You can view the description here.

You can see an example of the datagrid in action here.

I have put up a simple example of the datagrid component that shows some of the more advanced features.

You can view the example here.

The datagrid component is available as part of the Developer Resource Kit.