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ANN: Community MX Week in Review 040805

Bill Horvath .:CMX:.
4/8/2005 7:42:38 PM

flash (macromedia):

This week, CMX teaches you good CSS coding habits, offers you an MP3 player
for Flash, provides you with some great CSS snippets and plenty of other
cool things.

CMX MP3 Player (Flash Extension)
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D2DC4
Paul Newman

The CMX MP3 Player component enables you to load external MP3s from an XML
playlist. Features include track info display (title, artist), elapsed and
remaining time, audio scrubber, volume slider, and playlist navigation.
Requirements: Flash MX 2004 (pro or standard), Flash Player 7

Introducing the CMX CSS Snippet Collection - Part One
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=05CE4
Sheri German

CSS Positioning layouts are hot, and many people are trying to make the
transition from the mostly reliable, but non-semantic, table-based layouts
we've all used for years. CSS 2.1 provides great features for laying out
pages, and the specs for CSS 3 indicate that some day the future of design
on the web will be ever brighter indeed.
We here at CMX try to make the learning curve as painless as possible with
our many CSS tutorials and articles. Now we'd like to offer you a diagnostic
tool that spares you some typing and memorizing. We are proud to introduce
the CMX CSS Snippets Collection. Snippets, as you may well be aware, are
bits of reusable code that paste as blocks or around selections with the
click of an insert button.
This article includes an extension for installing part one of the collection
into the Dreamweaver Snippets panel, and a tutorial that explains the
problems and solutions that the hacks correct.
Part One of the CMX CSS Collection includes the following:

Caio Hack
Anti-Caio Hack
IE Mac only
IE Mac only 2
Hide from Mac
Holly Hack
Box Model Hack
Tan Hack
Tan Hack and Anti-Mac combined
6 IE Conditionals for all IE, 5.0, 5, 5.5, gte 5.5, and 6
Read on and bust those bugs!

Introducing the CMX CSS Snippet Collection - Part Two
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=F9B3D
Sheri German

CSS Positioning layouts are hot, and many people are trying to make the
transition from the mostly reliable, but non-semantic, table-based layouts
we've all used for years. CSS 2.1 provides great features for laying out
pages, and the specs for CSS 3 indicate that some day the future of design
on the web will be ever brighter indeed.
We here at CMX try to make the learning curve as painless as possible with
our many CSS tutorials and articles. Now we'd like to offer you a diagnostic
tool that spares you some typing and memorizing. We are proud to introduce
the CMX CSS Snippets Collection. Snippets, as you may well be aware, are
bits of reusable code that paste as blocks or around selections with the
click of an insert button. <br /><br />
This article includes an extension for installing part two of the collection
into the Dreamweaver Snippets panel, and a list that explains the problem
and then the solution that each snippet corrects.
Our Snippets in Part Two include the following:

Win IE fully clickable CSS buttons
Win IE text inheritance in tables
Win IE double float margin
Win IE three pixel gap bug
Win IE three pixel gap bug part 2
Win IE missing image bug
IE word wrap
IE expanding boxes and too wide images
Set text size on the body
Set font-size and family on multiple selectors for NS4
Zero margins on multiple elements
Clearing element for floats
Easy clearfix for floats
Floating an image to the left
Floating an image to the right
Clearing a float after an image
Centered layouts that work
Read on and bust those bugs!

CSS: Getting Into Good Coding Habits [FREE]
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=FAF76
Adrian Senior

In this article we will look at what I would consider to be good coding
practices when laying out a CSS design and building your style sheet.
We will look at how we can make our style sheets more manageable through the
use of comments and see how we can use our style sheets to their greatest
effect.

CSS Flyouts - Part Two
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=91324
John Gallant, Holly Bergevin

In the first installment of our CSS Flyouts series we looked at how to
create a basic flyout navigation menu with CSS that will work in most modern
browsers using the :hover pseudo-class. For our second part we promised to
explain the 'sticky hovering' concept that allows a flyout menu to be
'forgiving' so that if a user mouses off a flyout a little it won't
instantly vanish. CSS has no timing based rules (like JavaScript does), but
CSS can be made to do some pretty amazing things, as should be clear by now.
Come explore with us!

Streaming MP3s with Flash Communication Server - Part 6: Displaying Dynamic
MP3 Data in a Flash UI
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=ACAF1
Robert Reinhardt

In this tutorial, you learn how to create Flash MP3 browser which uses a
series of List and RemotingConnector components. These components enable the
interface to fetch MP3 artist, album, and song information for a ColdFusion
CFC, accessed over the built-in Flash Remoting gateway available on
ColdFusion servers.
The Streaming MP3s Series:
Streaming Basics
Creating an MP3 Component
Adding a Playlist to the MP3 Component
Using Other Playback Components
Creating an MP3 Database
Displaying Dynamic MP3 Data in a Flash UI

Building an XML Configuration File For Your ColdFusion 7 Application
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=80898
Danny Patterson

Most ColdFusion applications put the configuration variables in the
application.cfm page. The problem with this is that you need to be a
ColdFusion developer in order to modify those settings.
This article will show how to put your application's configuration
information into an XML file. This tutorial will also introduce a new
ColdFusion 7 feature that allows us to validate an XML document against an
XML Schema file to insure it is properly formated. I will also utilize the
Application.cfc architecture as a replacement to the old Application.cfm
technique. To read more about this new feature, read my article titled
Using Application.cfc in ColdFusion MX 7

Extensioneering 101: Objects - Part 3
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=0E9AD
Danilo Celic

Objects are probably the most basic of extensions. Their single-minded
purpose is to place a small portion of code where the user has made a
selection, or has positioned their insertion point. Objects had their own
panel through Dreamweaver 4, and Dreamweaver MX introduced the Insert bar
where you now access all the available built-in, as well as third-party,
Object extensions. Of course, Objects, like many of the other extension
types that we'll cover throughout the Extensioneering 101 series, can do
more, much more, if you really want them to.
The previous two parts of this series discussed how to have an Object