Comments on: Are Flash and Flex Web Technologies? http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/19/are-flash-and-flex-web-technologies Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matthew Fabb http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/19/are-flash-and-flex-web-technologies#comment-769034 Matthew Fabb Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:25:00 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/?p=791#comment-769034 "What if I could dive into the running Flash application the way I can dive into the document object model in firebug, and determine the states of objects and content of variables?" Actually, there's a number of products out there that do just that. Here's one of the more popular open source tools that does that called XRay: http://osflash.org/xray Now you cannot inspect any Flash movie, you have to add the XRay component to it, in order to get that inside view. However, after that you get an inside view similar to Firebug. “What if I could dive into the running Flash application the way I can dive into the document object model in firebug, and determine the states of objects and content of variables?”

Actually, there’s a number of products out there that do just that. Here’s one of the more popular open source tools that does that called XRay:
http://osflash.org/xray

Now you cannot inspect any Flash movie, you have to add the XRay component to it, in order to get that inside view. However, after that you get an inside view similar to Firebug.

]]> By: John http://www.openparenthesis.org/2008/11/19/are-flash-and-flex-web-technologies#comment-768277 John Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:41:01 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/?p=791#comment-768277 For what it's worth, Steve from Alfresco pointed me to his working config, which included: <blockquote>pdf2swf - part of swftools 2008-10-08-0802 (on RHEL5 server machine) You can download that version here: http://www.swftools.org/swftools-2008-10-08-0802.tar.gz</blockquote> With this installed, Alfresco Share is handling preview and multi-file upload like a charm, with the most recent 9.x version of Flash. For what it’s worth, Steve from Alfresco pointed me to his working config, which included:

pdf2swf – part of swftools 2008-10-08-0802 (on RHEL5 server machine)
You can download that version here: http://www.swftools.org/swftools-2008-10-08-0802.tar.gz

With this installed, Alfresco Share is handling preview and multi-file upload like a charm, with the most recent 9.x version of Flash.

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