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Global Navigation v2.14 released

While working on the upcoming online xml editor I have further improved the global navigation. It has a few new features like “btnIgnoreRelease” a button dispatch an event when it is clicked, useful if only the rollOver event is used to show the children buttons. There are also some minor fixes. Be sure to get the latest version! Cheers, Christian

Flash CMS Framework v4.72 released

While I’ve been busy doing some daily business, I have continuously improved the Flash CMS. Now it’s time to release a new version. For a website I have recently created I needed a way to fine tune positions and sizes of both pictures and textfields. For example, sometimes you need to add just a few pixels of height to an image and you don’t want to do it in photoshop and upload it...

Scale Bitmaps without distortion: BitmapSlice9

I just came across a blog entry by Grant Skinner about BitmapSlice9. This is awesome news for the global navigation. I will check it out and post a sample project soon (ok, as soon as I have time…) Cheers, Christian

Showcase: Fleb Site + Flash CMS

In a previous post I was talking about a site I was working on, which required an update in the Turtlebite Flash CMS to handle cyrillic fonts. I have almost finished that site (the picture galleries are still missing, because there are no pictures yet. It will be integrated by the end of may.) This site was built with the Fleb Framework and the client can upload files and edit every line of text. This...

Fleb Framework 1.27 released: Cache and preloading

Some time ago I stumbled upon this post and I decided to implement it in the Fleb Framework. It’s about cache and preloading. I also optimized the initialization of a Website created with Fleb. You can now define which files need to be preloaded before the main site starts. There is a new node you can set in structure.xml, “preload_cache”. It’s optional. If set, the files (images...

Fleb Framework v1.2: Dinner is served!

It’s been a while since the release of Fleb v1.1. I’ve been using it ever since to build websites (here you can find some examples) and at the same time have improved it a lot. It is still the same, the PHP/CSS/HTML section has not changed a lot despite a few small improvements. What did change are the classes: I have removed every line of code I could out of Main.as and Base.as which were...

Global Navigation v2.10: suspend after initialisation

While working on the upcoming Fleb Framework release 1.2 I have made a small but quite useful update to the global navigation: It is now possible to suspend the navigation right after its initialisation just before it is transitioning in. This comes in very handy if you need to wait for an intro to finish or some assets to be loaded, and you want to be sure the navigation is in place and ready. Test...

Flash CMS v4.71: Character Encoding Problems fixed

The issue with proper character encoding has been there for a while. Even though the database tables have “latin1″ as the default character set, I knew this was not the correct solution. But it always worked for me, and I have been using “utf8_encode/utf8_decode” in my php scripts and all was fine. Even though I had to convert some single special characters like the bullet point...

Flash CMS version 4.70 released

While stuck in daily business I managed to improve the Flash CMS Framework. I’m a working on 2 websites at the moment with loads of pictures to manage. So I added a search field to be able to find a specific text phrase or picture file within the CMS. Also, if you roll over the picture selector, a text field is fading in displaying the file name. This is really useful if you have to deal with...

Introducing Flash CMS Blog

Today I wrote a little guest post about the Turtlebite Flash CMS Framework in the Flash CMS Blog. Check it out! Here is what the say about themselves: “We are excited to introduce new informative Topflashcms.com source you could find useful for yourself. You may ask what is it all about? It is innovatory blog from where the users can derive extensive knowledge about various top Flash CMS inventions. In...