Macromedia Firefly Components 1.0

Macromedia Firefly Components 1.0

WARNING: Required FLASH MX 6.0 only

Macromedia Firefly Components is a key part of Macromedia Flash MX Data Connection Kit designed to transform Macromedia Flash MX into a powerful application environment for building data-rich Internet applications in minutes. Using Firefly Components, developers can build data-rich applications with the features that users have come to expect from traditional programming environments such as Visual Basic, Delphi, or Java. This article provides an overview of the Firefly Components application framework to help you understand how the Firefly components work together to make your life as a Macromedia Flash MX developer easier. The Firefly Components suite provides developers with a flexible component-based architecture for retrieving, manipulating, and saving data from multiple data sources. The foundation of this architecture consists of a client-side data management engine that is represented by three components: Connector, Dataset, and Resolver. These components provide developers with complete control over their data. The Firefly components also provide developers with several visual components, including FxGrid, FxComboBox, and FxEditBox. These components plug in seamlessly to the FxDataSet component, so that users can view and edit their data and the edited data is updated in real time. Multiple visual components can point to the same field in the Dataset. When the value of the field changes or when a new record is selected, all the controls are automatically updated to show the correct value.