September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
Content preview from Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide
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Creating a Flash MX Web Service Extension
Flash MX and the other MX programs allow you to install Flash panels that become part of the authoring environment. The Community MX and Amazon.com examples from this chapter can be placed in the WindowSWF folder in the multiuser Configuration folder of Flash MX, located in the following location in a typical Windows 2000 installation:
C:\Documents and Settings\
username
\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX\Configuration\WindowSWF
|
Note that the folder is a hidden folder by default in Windows. Hidden folders can be shown with Tools → Folder Options → View → Hidden files and folders → Show Hidden files and folders. For Macintosh OS X, the folder is located at:
| Hard Drive/Users/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/FlashMX/Configuration/WindowSWF |
If you have a single-user operating system, such as Windows 98 or Macintosh OS 9, the folder can be found in your main Flash MX installation folder.
Simply dropping a .swf file in this folder allows you to use the Flash interface as a dockable panel in Flash MX. You can easily add other types of panels that utilize other public web services or ones of your own design, and even package these as extensions for consumption by other users of Studio MX products. To package a Flash .swf file as an extension, you have to create an extension package. This is done by first creating a special XML file with a .mxi file extension.
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More information on the Macromedia Extension Installation file format (MXI) ...
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