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Since the launch of Dreamweaver MX 2004, I've had numerous opportunities to demonstrate its new features and power to both new and existing Dreamweaver users. As with any product demonstration, it doesn't take long before I'm singing the praises of Dreamweaver MX 2004's abilities to de...
Tabs are a basic interface element that Director has tended to ignore. Director MX 2004 introduces a series of new FlashComponent member types, to renew and extend the built-in controls, but there is no tab member to be found among them.
In this last article (for now) of a series of articles on Xtra development using Macromedia's Open Architecture, or MOA, I thought it'd be nice to take a quick tour through some of the little quirks, clues, shortcuts, and hints I've accumulated over the years. These are in no specific ...
In Part 1 of this two-part article (MXDJ, Vol. 2, issue 3) I showed how to invoke a Web service for the purpose of validating user input. Part 2 will delve a little deeper into the ColdFusion MX language structure specifically designed to handle XML result sets such as those returned f...
The Object panel is the key to virtually everything you can do in FreeHand MX. Most of us don't take the time to understand the Object panel, however, and it becomes a source of frustration.
The value of any piece of software is in how much time and effort it can save you. What good is the software if it is not going to increase productivity and efficiency? In several of my past articles, I have examined ways of automating common or repetitive processes. To that end, I am ...
If you do Flash Remoting in .NET - read on. We at MXDJ began to hear about FlashORB and went straight to the source for an inside view of this alternative to Macromedia's Flash Remoting.
Part 1 of this article (Vol. 1, issue 3) covered a general introduction to the Extensibility Layer and discussed the fundamental DOM and the relationship between different parts of a Flash document and their associated objects. It introduced the History panel and showed you how to buil...
No doubt, you have heard about XML. XML is everywhere. For Web designers, that can add to the confusion. If something is everywhere, it's nowhere. If only you heard 'XML is the new HTML,' then maybe you could wrap your mind around it as a markup language. But chances are, you've heard ...
Support for cascading style sheets, or CSS, has been present in Dreamweaver for many years; you may have taken advantage of it as just another software feature without really knowing how to utilize it fully, efficiently, and correctly. This article will introduce you to some general g...
While dialog boxes and pull-down menus are one way to insert HTML, all that extra mousing around takes time. After the tenth time you choose Insert > Image Objects > Rollover Image, your aching hand will need some relief and you'll be wondering if there's a faster way to get your work ...
Apparently since the dawn of time, Director has had quite an affinity for the processor and its cycles. In fact, Director appears to like the processor so much that when running, there is little to no free processor time.