Comments on: Flex Ajax Bridge: Flickr Roulette (repost)

By: Quietly Scheming » Blog Archive » Some thoughts on Flex vs. HTML (or…”how I made my Flex List Images stop flickering.”)

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:31:52 +0000

[...] In the past week or two I’ve bIn the past week or two I’ve been noticing an uptick in the number of posts on the benefits of Flex vs. HTML threading their way through the blogosphere. Now I don’t really want to get involved too deeply in this discussion — HTML/AJAX and Flex have different design centers, and as a good developer you should be deciding what’s the best technology suited for the task at hand (or, why not use both?). Lots of factors should be affecting your decision — productivity, usability, content type, size of the production team, type and lifetime of the content — and for any given project, those factors might push you in different directions (i.e., some projects types will be more usable implemented in Flex, and some will be more usable implemented in HTML). [...]

By: Pete Mackie

Pete Mackie — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:54:44 +0000

The URL links for this example are broken. It generates an exception after entering and search name.

By: Chris Jolly

Chris Jolly — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:56:28 +0000

Ely, I guess you're on to bigger & better projects, but just in case you're watching this thread still... I get the following Flash 9 player error when I try to run the demo...

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

Thanks

By: Ely Greenfield

Ely Greenfield — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:13:48 +0000

Hi Bob. flex/flash doesn’t support it straight out of the box. You could probably rig something up using LocalConnection, where the app the starts the drag operation lets other apps on the page know when something is being dragged and what it is, and the other apps show and handle the drag operation if the mouse enters their area…but it’s going to be a lot of work.

By: Bob I.

Bob I. — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:41:29 +0000

Edit to previous post...

Is it possible to use the Flex-Ajax Bridge to solve the issue above?

By: Bob I.

Bob I. — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:31:54 +0000

Wow...the demo is impressive.

Here's a question for you which I can't seem to find any answers for...

Is it possible to drag a flex component or an item in a flex component and drop it into another flex application in a totally different browser window?

By: Jase

Jase — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:05:32 +0000

Am I doing something wrong....It's kindof ironic that the HTML version works perfectly, but all I get is an error on the flex version:

/javascript data structure representing thumbnails / var urls = [ null ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/65/201765577_7a38f1ecac_s.jpg', id: 201765577 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/68/201756065_156dd399a2_s.jpg', id: 201756065 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/62/201752166_314913d721_s.jpg', id: 201752166 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/69/201750832_b6cb5fd323_s.jpg', id: 201750832 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/78/201745735_b6040d545e_s.jpg', id: 201745735 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/76/201743257_07555b9b28_s.jpg', id: 201743257 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/74/201743158_3bc9cb3d1a_s.jpg', id: 201743158 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/69/201743061_ac7c82a5e2_s.jpg', id: 201743061 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/61/201742967_1674102c1a_s.jpg', id: 201742967 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/74/201742835_447df9970b_s.jpg', id: 201742835 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/31/201742753_d611dcebf5_s.jpg', id: 201742753 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/66/201734928_767e867dce_s.jpg', id: 201734928 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/62/201734931_1c3b9c6451_s.jpg', id: 201734931 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/75/201722920_c2a0f08641_s.jpg', id: 201722920 } ,{ thumb: 'http://static.flickr.com/68/201713747_e0e34d9cae_s.jpg', id: 201713747 } ] / grab a reference to the flex application on the page / var flexApp = FABridge.flash.root(); / tell the carousel it's the thumb property that it should be loading / //flexApp.carousel().setUrlField("thumb"); / pass the new thumbnail data to the carousel */ flexApp.carousel().setDataProvider(urls.slice(1,urls.length));

By: dn

dn — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:47:38 +0000

nothing in IE 6.0 – too bad… :(

By: nehal

nehal — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:52:05 +0000

Same here. I get script error of Flash.

checked on firefox 1.5 anf flash 8,5,0,246

do we need earlier version of Flash 8.5? as u said "There appears to be an odd interaction going on between the current flex beta and my hosting setup............" (i would have tried but dont have older 8.5 version)

By: jg

jg — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:29:52 +0000

yeah, i don’t get anything either in Firefox 1.5 or IE beta 7 (not surprised).
looking forward to see what you’ve done here, i’ll keep checking back-