My first Adobe Air Application! E-Synergy Workflow
I've created my first full Adobe Air application today with the Dreamweaver CS3 extension, using Javascript, Ajax, Coldfusion and HTML.
We use an application called Exact E-Synergy for storing our complete workflow, contact management, project management, etc. which is a really awesome webbased CRM-package (and so much more). I hate having to permanently have an Internet Explorer window open, so I developed this utility which list my workflow for the next week. It also highlights new items in yellow, and notifies people of new items that have arrived.
Adobe Air: adding a timer through Javascript
So I am working on a small app that should run a fixed javascript routine (a refresh of a page) every 60 seconds.
First off, make sure that you have the AirAliases.js loaded:
<script src="AIRAliases.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
And then run this code through Javascript:
function startTimer(){
myTimer = new air.Timer(60000, 0);
myTimer.addEventListener(air.TimerEvent.TIMER, appLoad);
myTimer.start();
}
The second argument for air.Timer() is the number of times you want this timer to run. I run the code at the end of the "appLoad()" function, so it get's looped automatically.myTimer = new air.Timer(60000, 0);
myTimer.addEventListener(air.TimerEvent.TIMER, appLoad);
myTimer.start();
}
The addEventListener is an listener that runs when the TIMER is finished, and it runs the "appLoad" function.
Quickstart guide Coldfusion, jQuery and AJAX
Besides currently being swamped in work, I'm trying out some new stuff. Lately I've been using jQuery a lot, which is something that "the more you use it, the more you'll love it". It's a great JS library that limits development time on those recurring javascripts and does a lot more.
This site is a simple example on getting started with CF, jQuery and Ajax.
If anyone else has got some CF + jQuery examples: I love to see them! Post them in the comments please.
http://www.365labs.net/cf_jquery/jquery_coldfusion_quickstart.htm
