There's been a few developments on the Macromedia Labs front this week- first the release of FlexMail, an email client written in Flex 2 and ColdFusion by Ben Forta demonstrating how easy it was to leverage CF's back-end strengths (CFPOP, CFMAIL) alongside Flex 2's front-end brawn. Great example app, check it out!
Also, as JD noted earlier, Neil Straghalis on the Macromedia web team just blogged about how the CSS structure for Labs was built out to both leverage the current Macromedia.com design but also selectively override the defaults for the Labs 'de-evolved' design (which was intended to be a less 'refined' version of Macromedia's core design from the start). An interesting peek into how the CSS development is managed across projects and 'microsites' here on the MM web team, you'll want to check it out.
Hi, i would like to know if a flash movie (flash lite) publish as a standalone app. can it connect to a database.
May i know some related site of it to refer to?
thx a lot
Hi, Christine-
You can use loadVars() calls in old-school AS1 to query a server-side script which then accesses a database directly and hands the raw data back, but you cannot directly connect a Flash Lite 1.x application to a database as you would with, say, the XML/Remoting connector components in Flash 8/MX 2004.
You should definitely download the FlashLite CDK, and check out the tutorials and resources in the Flash Lite developer center here:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html
HTH!