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Customise Red5 applications and broadcast messages to Flex HOWTO

Marko Tomic — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:23:52 +0100

In one of my earlier posts Flex and Red5 simple demo, I demonstrated how to broadcast messages from Red5 server to all subscribed Flash clients and vice versa. This feature of Red5 open source Flash streaming server continues to impress me and I think everyone with a bit of AS3 and Java knowledge should take advantage of this fantastic piece of technology.

In this post I’d like to explain the code that’s required to exchange messages between Red5 and Flash/Flex client. &nbRead More...

Removing default icons from Flex Tree control

Marko Tomic — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:30:26 +0100

What's so cool about Flex framework is the fact that it's very extensible, which allows me to do almost anything I want with it.

For example, to remove folder/arrow icons from Flex Tree control, which prevents nodes from collapsing and also creates more space for labels, you can add the following in your stylesheet:{xtypo_code}defaultLeafIcon: ClassReference(null);
folderClosedIcon: ClassReference(null);
folderOpenIcon: ClassReference(null);
disclosureClosedIcon: CRead More...

Illegal override of activate in mx.managers.SystemManagerProxy - Solved

Marko Tomic — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:03:15 +0100

I've been quiet on the blog front for a while. I was having a rough time scuba diving in the tropics and so on... If you're interested, take a look at some of my holiday pics I uploaded on facebook.

Now back to business.

At Learnosity, I've been working on migrating our core Flex 3 app to Flex 4. One of the problems I encountered was embedding an external swf file into the main app. I was getting the following error:

{xtypo_code}#1053 Illegal override of activRead More...

Flex and Red5 simple demo

Marko Tomic — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:52:01 +0100

I've been using Red5 Flash Streaming Server for a while and the more I use it, the better I like it. Sure, Adobe Flash Media Server is an excellent commercial product which does the same thing and supports server-side ActionScript. Red5 doesn't support server-side ActionScript at the moment (this will probably change), but it is an open source Flash server and with a little bit of Java knowledge you can achieve the same result and possibly more.

The following example shRead More...