Presentation slides from FITC 2008 and Toronto Flex Camp 2

This article explains how to use the Flex 2 FMS Explorer to build any number of test and sample FMS applications using Flex. The complete source code is also available. The explorer already contains a number of small samples including:

• Text Chat
• Shared Text Editor (based on the Flex 2 RichTextEditor)
• Simple Live Stream
• Controlled Live Stream
• Simple Video Conference
• Scratch Pad
• others as I have time to add them...

This article contains an extended explanation of how the Camera.setMode() method works including examples we didn't have room for in chapter 6.

Based on a lecture/demonstration I did at Ryerson this article is designed to both clarify how remote shared objects work and demonstrate some methods you can use to update and display their contents.

Notes from a recent chattyfig thread on the most difficult problems learning to develop FCS based applications .

Slides from the Designing Real-time Applications presentation are now available.

A discussion of how to efficiently keep the contents of a v2 List component in sync with a SharedObject. The tutorial explains how to avoid using List methods like addItem() to improve performance dramatically.

A long list of resources from Macromedia and other sites that developers should know about working the the Flash Communication Server.

A regular question on the flashcomm mailing list at chattyfig.figleaf.com has been "how do I show what rooms are in use and who is in each room from within my lobby?"

A good way to let the lobby know what is going on in each room is to open a NetConnection between the rooms and the lobby and then let each room update a shared object belonging to the lobby. Check out the Flash Lobby page to see how to setup a lobby/rooms system and to download a simple demonstration application.