ANN: Community MX Week in Review 020905

ColdFusion 7 was released this week. See the first link below to find out
more about this feature-rich release.

ColdFusion MX 7: The Newest Version of ColdFusion [FREE]
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E4D7E
Arman Danesh

Macromedia has released ColdFusion MX 7. This is a major upgrade to
ColdFusion with lots of new features bound to enhance most developer's
applications. This article provides an introduction to the new ColdFusion
and its many exciting features.

Using DropdownLists, CheckBoxes, and TextBoxes in an Editable ASP.NET
DataGrid
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=74911
Heidi Bautista

Learn how to easily add data-bound dropdown lists, checkboxes, and single
and multi-line textboxes to your editable DataGrids. If you stick with these
three types of controls you can still leverage Dreamweaver's built-in
functionality provided by DreamweaverCtrls.dll to handle updating and
deleting from your database. It's easier than you might think. Read on to
learn this "trick of the trade."

Foxy Lady: Quick Searching with Firefox
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D3E29
Paul Newman

Mozilla Firefox is rapidly becoming the favorite browser of web developers.
In this article, you'll learn how to create Search Plugins and Bookmark
Keywords for Firefox to accelerate your web-based searches.

Captioning Flash Video - Part 2
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B4E63
Joey Lott

In Part 1 you learned the basics of adding captions to Flash video. In Part
2 you'll use slightly different (and more advanced) techniques to apply
captions. Using the Video and NetStream classes you'll playback the video
without using the media components, and you'll learn how to make the
captions scroll.

Code Free or Buy - Part 1: Open Source Options for Windows Web Developers
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=4E54A
Thomas Pletcher

Can you really do professional-level work using free and open source
software? Actually, yes--and surprisingly often. This article looks at the
current open source options available to Windows-based web developers and
contrasts them with the commercial alternatives, so you know when to Code
Free and when to Buy.

Creating Charts and Graphs in Freehand
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=93A3C
Kim Dudley

Creating a visually appealing document containing lists of numbers and
statistics can be challenging. Displaying these numbers and statistics in
charts and graphs is more interesting and may communicate the information to
the viewer better and quicker. Charts and graphs may not be appropriate for
official business reports, but for items such as presentations, newsletters,
brochures and web sites, charts and graphs can take a boring bunch of
numbers and create something that is interesting and attention grabbing.
This tutorial will go through the steps of setting up a chart and graph and
go over the other graphs available in Freehand.

Be Mine, Valentine
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D026A
Jim Babbage

Whether you consider Valentine's Day to be a special occasion for love, or
an event manufactured by the greeting card industry, one thing can be
certain; you better have a little gift from the heart with you when you see
your special someone that day.
The best gifts are not the most expensive -- they're the ones that show care
and thought. This tutorial -- or rather the end result of this tutorial --
was inspired by that special person in my life.
From a less mushy perspective, I also wanted to show you how techniques from
other tutorials can be altered to suit your own design needs. Learning how
to do specific things is great, don't get me wrong, but there's a certain
sense of accomplishment when you can take what you've learned, and make it
your own.
Several techniques have been used here. I have modifed Brian Edgin's
tutorial, The Ultimate Aqua Button , to create the glass heart effect. This
tutorial will also make use of:

Bitmap masks
Live Effects
Vector Shapes
Vector Path tool
Replace Color tool
Transform Tool
Magic Wand
You will also work a lot with modifying bitmap masks, vector paths and
shapes.
This tutorial is video-based, with narration and captioning. Due to the size
of the videos, it has been broken into 6 parts. The completed, editible PNG
file as well as off line versions of the videos are available in the support
documents. There is close to an hour of video instruction, divided between
the 6 parts.

Streaming MP3s with Flash Communication Server - Part 4: Using Other
Playback Components
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=06F68
Robert Reinhardt

You can use the MediaPlayback component to stream content, including MP3
files, from your FlashCom Server. In this tutorial, you learn how to specify
URIs for FlashCom-served MP3 files and how to combine the functionality of a
listbox with the MediaPlayback component.

Registering Timelines Using Global Variables
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B2FEA
Derrick Ypenburg

By registering timelines within an object, they can be targeted from any
timeline within a movie without using target paths. Registering a timeline
and giving it a unique reference name is also useful when calling a _root
timeline in a SWF file that has been loaded into a parent SWF, movies can
only share a single main timeline.


Recreating Macromedia's Layout
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=AC5AC
Zoe Gillenwater

Macromedia's current web site layout contains two effects that are very
popular today: equal-height columns and rounded corners on columns and
boxes. When these two effects are combined, it creates a slick and
impressive looking web site. Although there are numerous articles out there
describing how to achieve both of these effects in CSS, there is not much
written about how to achieve both of them in conjunction. Surprisingly, the
effect can be quite simple to achieve, as our deconstruction of Macromedia's
site will reveal. We'll show you how they achieve this layout feat, then
describe an alternative way to produce the rounded corner effect that is
more streamlined.


--
Bill Horvath
Free Tutorials for Studio MX
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
Free 10 Day Trial
http://www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm

I think Heidi's DataGrid series has been excellent.

"Bill Horvath .:CMX:." <bill (AT) Nospam (DOT) com> wrote

ColdFusion 7 was released this week. See the first link below to find out
more about this feature-rich release.

ColdFusion MX 7: The Newest Version of ColdFusion [FREE]
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E4D7E
Arman Danesh

Macromedia has released ColdFusion MX 7. This is a major upgrade to
ColdFusion with lots of new features bound to enhance most developer's
applications. This article provides an introduction to the new ColdFusion
and its many exciting features.

Using DropdownLists, CheckBoxes, and TextBoxes in an Editable ASP.NET
DataGrid
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=74911
Heidi Bautista

Learn how to easily add data-bound dropdown lists, checkboxes, and single
and multi-line textboxes to your editable DataGrids. If you stick with
these
three types of controls you can still leverage Dreamweaver's built-in
functionality provided by DreamweaverCtrls.dll to handle updating and
deleting from your database. It's easier than you might think. Read on to
learn this "trick of the trade."

Foxy Lady: Quick Searching with Firefox
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D3E29
Paul Newman

Mozilla Firefox is rapidly becoming the favorite browser of web
developers.
In this article, you'll learn how to create Search Plugins and Bookmark
Keywords for Firefox to accelerate your web-based searches.

Captioning Flash Video - Part 2
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B4E63
Joey Lott

In Part 1 you learned the basics of adding captions to Flash video. In
Part
2 you'll use slightly different (and more advanced) techniques to apply
captions. Using the Video and NetStream classes you'll playback the video
without using the media components, and you'll learn how to make the
captions scroll.

Code Free or Buy - Part 1: Open Source Options for Windows Web Developers
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=4E54A
Thomas Pletcher

Can you really do professional-level work using free and open source
software? Actually, yes--and surprisingly often. This article looks at the
current open source options available to Windows-based web developers and
contrasts them with the commercial alternatives, so you know when to Code
Free and when to Buy.

Creating Charts and Graphs in Freehand
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=93A3C
Kim Dudley

Creating a visually appealing document containing lists of numbers and
statistics can be challenging. Displaying these numbers and statistics in
charts and graphs is more interesting and may communicate the information
to
the viewer better and quicker. Charts and graphs may not be appropriate
for
official business reports, but for items such as presentations,
newsletters,
brochures and web sites, charts and graphs can take a boring bunch of
numbers and create something that is interesting and attention grabbing.
This tutorial will go through the steps of setting up a chart and graph
and
go over the other graphs available in Freehand.

Be Mine, Valentine
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D026A
Jim Babbage

Whether you consider Valentine's Day to be a special occasion for love, or
an event manufactured by the greeting card industry, one thing can be
certain; you better have a little gift from the heart with you when you
see
your special someone that day.
The best gifts are not the most expensive -- they're the ones that show
care
and thought. This tutorial -- or rather the end result of this tutorial --
was inspired by that special person in my life.
From a less mushy perspective, I also wanted to show you how techniques
from
other tutorials can be altered to suit your own design needs. Learning how
to do specific things is great, don't get me wrong, but there's a certain
sense of accomplishment when you can take what you've learned, and make it
your own.
Several techniques have been used here. I have modifed Brian Edgin's
tutorial, The Ultimate Aqua Button , to create the glass heart effect.
This
tutorial will also make use of:

Bitmap masks
Live Effects
Vector Shapes
Vector Path tool
Replace Color tool
Transform Tool
Magic Wand
You will also work a lot with modifying bitmap masks, vector paths and
shapes.
This tutorial is video-based, with narration and captioning. Due to the
size
of the videos, it has been broken into 6 parts. The completed, editible
PNG
file as well as off line versions of the videos are available in the
support
documents. There is close to an hour of video instruction, divided between
the 6 parts.

Streaming MP3s with Flash Communication Server - Part 4: Using Other
Playback Components
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=06F68
Robert Reinhardt

You can use the MediaPlayback component to stream content, including MP3
files, from your FlashCom Server. In this tutorial, you learn how to
specify
URIs for FlashCom-served MP3 files and how to combine the functionality of
a
listbox with the MediaPlayback component.

Registering Timelines Using Global Variables
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B2FEA
Derrick Ypenburg

By registering timelines within an object, they can be targeted from any
timeline within a movie without using target paths. Registering a timeline
and giving it a unique reference name is also useful when calling a _root
timeline in a SWF file that has been loaded into a parent SWF, movies can
only share a single main timeline.


Recreating Macromedia's Layout
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=AC5AC
Zoe Gillenwater

Macromedia's current web site layout contains two effects that are very
popular today: equal-height columns and rounded corners on columns and
boxes. When these two effects are combined, it creates a slick and
impressive looking web site. Although there are numerous articles out
there
describing how to achieve both of these effects in CSS, there is not much
written about how to achieve both of them in conjunction. Surprisingly,
the
effect can be quite simple to achieve, as our deconstruction of
Macromedia's
site will reveal. We'll show you how they achieve this layout feat, then
describe an alternative way to produce the rounded corner effect that is
more streamlined.


--
Bill Horvath
Free Tutorials for Studio MX
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
Free 10 Day Trial
http://www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm

We've received a lot of positive feedback about that series. Seems to be a
winner alright : )

--
Bill Horvath
Community MX
http://www.communitymx.com

"Les Matthews" <LesAMatthews (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

I think Heidi's DataGrid series has been excellent.

"Bill Horvath .:CMX:." <bill (AT) Nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cuh1id$plf$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
ColdFusion 7 was released this week. See the first link below to find
out
more about this feature-rich release.

ColdFusion MX 7: The Newest Version of ColdFusion [FREE]
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E4D7E
Arman Danesh

Macromedia has released ColdFusion MX 7. This is a major upgrade to
ColdFusion with lots of new features bound to enhance most developer's
applications. This article provides an introduction to the new
ColdFusion
and its many exciting features.

Using DropdownLists, CheckBoxes, and TextBoxes in an Editable ASP.NET
DataGrid
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=74911
Heidi Bautista

Learn how to easily add data-bound dropdown lists, checkboxes, and
single
and multi-line textboxes to your editable DataGrids. If you stick with
these
three types of controls you can still leverage Dreamweaver's built-in
functionality provided by DreamweaverCtrls.dll to handle updating and
deleting from your database. It's easier than you might think. Read on
to
learn this "trick of the trade."

Foxy Lady: Quick Searching with Firefox
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D3E29
Paul Newman

Mozilla Firefox is rapidly becoming the favorite browser of web
developers.
In this article, you'll learn how to create Search Plugins and Bookmark
Keywords for Firefox to accelerate your web-based searches.

Captioning Flash Video - Part 2
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B4E63
Joey Lott

In Part 1 you learned the basics of adding captions to Flash video. In
Part
2 you'll use slightly different (and more advanced) techniques to apply
captions. Using the Video and NetStream classes you'll playback the
video
without using the media components, and you'll learn how to make the
captions scroll.

Code Free or Buy - Part 1: Open Source Options for Windows Web
Developers
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=4E54A
Thomas Pletcher

Can you really do professional-level work using free and open source
software? Actually, yes--and surprisingly often. This article looks at
the
current open source options available to Windows-based web developers
and
contrasts them with the commercial alternatives, so you know when to
Code
Free and when to Buy.

Creating Charts and Graphs in Freehand
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=93A3C
Kim Dudley

Creating a visually appealing document containing lists of numbers and
statistics can be challenging. Displaying these numbers and statistics
in
charts and graphs is more interesting and may communicate the
information
to
the viewer better and quicker. Charts and graphs may not be appropriate
for
official business reports, but for items such as presentations,
newsletters,
brochures and web sites, charts and graphs can take a boring bunch of
numbers and create something that is interesting and attention grabbing.
This tutorial will go through the steps of setting up a chart and graph
and
go over the other graphs available in Freehand.

Be Mine, Valentine
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D026A
Jim Babbage

Whether you consider Valentine's Day to be a special occasion for love,
or
an event manufactured by the greeting card industry, one thing can be
certain; you better have a little gift from the heart with you when you
see
your special someone that day.
The best gifts are not the most expensive -- they're the ones that show
care
and thought. This tutorial -- or rather the end result of this
tutorial --
was inspired by that special person in my life.
From a less mushy perspective, I also wanted to show you how techniques
from
other tutorials can be altered to suit your own design needs. Learning
how
to do specific things is great, don't get me wrong, but there's a
certain
sense of accomplishment when you can take what you've learned, and make
it
your own.
Several techniques have been used here. I have modifed Brian Edgin's
tutorial, The Ultimate Aqua Button , to create the glass heart effect.
This
tutorial will also make use of:

Bitmap masks
Live Effects
Vector Shapes
Vector Path tool
Replace Color tool
Transform Tool
Magic Wand
You will also work a lot with modifying bitmap masks, vector paths and
shapes.
This tutorial is video-based, with narration and captioning. Due to the
size
of the videos, it has been broken into 6 parts. The completed, editible
PNG
file as well as off line versions of the videos are available in the
support
documents. There is close to an hour of video instruction, divided
between
the 6 parts.

Streaming MP3s with Flash Communication Server - Part 4: Using Other
Playback Components
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=06F68
Robert Reinhardt

You can use the MediaPlayback component to stream content, including MP3
files, from your FlashCom Server. In this tutorial, you learn how to
specify
URIs for FlashCom-served MP3 files and how to combine the functionality
of
a
listbox with the MediaPlayback component.

Registering Timelines Using Global Variables
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B2FEA
Derrick Ypenburg

By registering timelines within an object, they can be targeted from any
timeline within a movie without using target paths. Registering a
timeline
and giving it a unique reference name is also useful when calling a
_root
timeline in a SWF file that has been loaded into a parent SWF, movies
can
only share a single main timeline.


Recreating Macromedia's Layout
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=AC5AC
Zoe Gillenwater

Macromedia's current web site layout contains two effects that are very
popular today: equal-height columns and rounded corners on columns and
boxes. When these two effects are combined, it creates a slick and
impressive looking web site. Although there are numerous articles out
there
describing how to achieve both of these effects in CSS, there is not
much
written about how to achieve both of them in conjunction. Surprisingly,
the
effect can be quite simple to achieve, as our deconstruction of
Macromedia's
site will reveal. We'll show you how they achieve this layout feat, then
describe an alternative way to produce the rounded corner effect that is
more streamlined.


--
Bill Horvath
Free Tutorials for Studio MX
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
Free 10 Day Trial
http://www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm