My ‘Flex’ible Experiments

Here you will find a screenshot tour of the PHPEclipse installation process in Flex Builder 3

Step 1 :

             Begin the installation from the Flex Builder Help menu item.

        

Step 2 :

             This screenshot show the screen as it initially comes up. In this case you will need to change the radio button to indicate that this is a new install.

Step 3 :

           This screen will vary depending on the features you have installed already. You want to click on the New Remote Site button. If you are behind a proxy and the Flex Builder install mechanism does not work, then you can download a zipped version of the update site and then click the New Local Site button instead. 

Step 4 :

           This screen is showing the New Remote Site dialog, filled in with the correct information to install PHPEclipse

           Name : PHPEclipse 1.2.x

           URL :   http://update.phpeclipse.net/update/stable/1.2.x

 

Step 5:

          When you first come back to this screen, if the site you added is NOT selected, be sure to select it before clicking Finish.

Step 6:

          This next screen shows all of the features that are available to install.

Step 7:

          Click the button to accept the license agreement.

Step 8:

          Confirm the install location

Step 9:

          Just a screenshot of the in-process installation.

Step 10:

            This screen is saying that the provider cannot be verified . Ignore that and click on Install All .Not even Eclipse.org nor IBM sign their features.

 

Step 11:

           Flex Builder needs to be restarted after installing PHPEclipse.

Step 12:

          Finally, after restarting Flex Builder, the first thing you will typically want to do is open the PHPEclipse perspective to check whether it is installed correctly. 

Thats it !! . PHPEclipse is successfully installed.

One thing clearly lacking in Flex is a Videoplayer component like the one found in Flash CS3.  Flex does have a VideoDisplay component , but it do not have controls to interact with video like  play, pause, seek etc.

In few simple steps we can easily use the FLash FLVPlayback in Flex

1. On windows machine go to Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\en\Configuration\Component Source\ActionScript 3.0\FLVPlayback and copy the “fl” folder containing the FLVPlayback source and paste it in the flex application’s source folder .
2. Create new actionscript class named Icon.as in the video folder with an empty constructor . This is to get rid of a compiler error like this ” Call to a possibly undefined method Icon. “
3. In the FLVPlayback class on line number 871, wrap the following lines of code in an if statement.


boundingBox_mc.visible = false;
removeChild(boundingBox_mc);
boundingBox_mc = null;

The result will look like this

if(boundingBox_mc){
boundingBox_mc.visible = false;
removeChild(boundingBox_mc);
boundingBox_mc = null;
};

Finally we need do is to copy the Video player controlbar skins . We can find them in this directory    Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\en\Configuration\FLVPlayback Skins\ActionScript 3.0
Thats it !! . We are good to go now . Click on the image below to view a sample ( Right click to view the source )