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September 25th, 2004

EventDispatcher

Kenneth J Toley, III of Macromedia have a great article on Creating Events Using the EventDispatcher Class.

The article discusses the basics of using the EventDispatcher class and provides the steps for building custom classes that broadcast custom events. “While most components and objects in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 have built-in support for UI events (mouse, keyboard, etc.) and Load or Data events (load, complete, progress, etc.), these events alone may not always meet developers’ needs. There are times when you may want to detect a complex change in application state, build custom components, or just force methods to wait for the completion of a lengthy process. Often Flash developers resort to the use of global variables or convoluted loops to repeatedly check for state change with limited success.”

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September 16th, 2004

October 2004 Meeting

There will be no meeting for September, 2004 for India’s Macromedia User Group. But we are coming up with a much improvised meeting for October 2004. Those of you who want to attend or give presentation, please follow up with the Manager using the contact form or on the mailing list of the group.

Venue: Teknopoint Office Premise
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2004
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Topic Presentation Submission
Contact Person: Himanshu Mody of Teknopoint, Brajeshwar or Arindam Biswas
Last Date: Friday, 22nd October, 2004
Topics: Any of Macromedia Technologies

[For Presenters, we will have projectors ready, so bring in your CD, USB, Laptop with your presentation content. This will though be communicated appropriately to the presenters.]

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September 14th, 2004

Flex Builder Breeze Preso

Macromedia Flex Builder 1.0 is Macromedia’s authoring tool for Flex development. With a diverse set of features, Flex Builder aims to help developers learn MXML faster, develop more efficiently, and allows different members of the team to become involved in Flex development. Flex Builder has gone through a number of betas and was released recently to the public. Many Flex development teams are currently using Flex Builder’s design view, MXML code editor, and debugging functionality to help build effective and usable Flex applications.

This Breeze Preso on Flex Builder 1.0 will discuss the benefits of Flex Builder, and discuss the packaging and pricing decisions that were made.
Speaker: Macromedia QA Engineer, Gabriel Chua

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September 12th, 2004

Flash Video Kit

Macromedia recently accnounced the Flash Video Kit, aimed at providing HTML/Web professionals with all of the resources they need to deploy Flash video content on their web sites easily.

The kit contains the following major components:

• A new extension to Dreamweaver for deploying Flash video
• A lite version of the new Sorenson Squeeze 4.0
• A 15-day trial of the new Flash Video Streaming Service Lite, powered by Vitalstream
• A comprehensive video primer that details all you need to know about Flash video

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