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Adobe is teaming up with Google and Yahoo! to improve indexing of dynamic content in rich internet applications made with Flash. This means Google and Yahoo! will be able to crawl your site if you have a Flash/Flex/OpenLaszlo based application that pulls content from database.

Here are some excerpts from the press release.

Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable — they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Google has already begun to roll out Adobe Flash Player technology incorporated into its search engine.

Yahoo! also expects to deliver improved Web search capabilities for SWF applications in a future update to Yahoo! Search.

This surely is a great development!

Update:

OpenLaszlo blog has a great post on why this is not so big a news!

Working on a project that allows user to change the color of an image using Hue, Saturation and Brightness adjustments from Flex. The same image should then be printed in high resolution from the backend.

The trouble is, when we apply the same HSB variations that Flex used to Photoshop / Gimp / ImageMagick they generate a totally different color output. We want a WYSIWYG color change/printing, so this is not going to work.

The following table shows the output we received!

Not sure what the solution to this is. ImageMagick has come the closest to Flex’s HSB variations, so I am currently trying to figure out something with it.

Any hints?

Note to self:

Coordinate with team to implement Test Driven Development in Flex using AS3FlexUnit. To use the FlexCover tool to test code coverage on our Flex projects.

And use Runtime Shared Libraries to improve performance when we are using multiple Flex SWFs in a single app / on the same page!

Flash can not only play videos, it can also easily go full screen (without the chrome) to run them with hardware acceleration.

We have a project where we display student portfolio videos, and the client has asked to add a full screen provision. I was looking around the net for this, and found some good resources.

So if you want to add a full screen provision to your Flash Video player too, go ahead and check these out:

• Adobe’s Developer Network article explains going to Full Screen mode in Flash Player 9 in detail. It covers both Flash and Flex.
• Flash FLV player with Full Screen, source code included. Site in German.
• FlashCom Guru has some examples. More than the full screen feature, I loved the BBC clip he used for the demo!

The task looks much easier now! Just need to work a bit on the skinning of the player!

This Logic Builder is particularly for Flex developers. And as it is, I am looking for the best solution to this! So here goes!

The task is to flow a text in multiple text areas automatically. The height and width of each TextArea is fixed. There can be no scroll bars on any TextArea. When the text is overflowing (going out of the TextArea), it should be taken to the next TextArea. The application should show as many TextAreas as needed, to show the text entered.

As shown in the image, you can have a text area to enter the content, and a button. Clicking on the button should generate as many TextAreas as needed and flow the given text in them.

Hints:

• You may use a List with TextAreas as the ItemRenderes
• Adobe Documentation on Text Controls
• TextArea & TextLineMetrics language reference