Elearning using Flex

I am glad to announce the first Step for basic requirements of E-Learning using Flex has been achieved.
Basic Requirements met:

• All Flash player versions starting from Flash Player version 6 to 10, should be loaded. (For support of old elearning courses).
• Without any memory leak due to loading multiple swf files.
• Ability to navigate to any particular lesson (SWF).
• XML Support for loading swf files into a lesson.
• PreLoader for showing the loading status of individual SWF files
• Ability to detect events of SWF files (eg: totalframes, swf playing etc.,) 

See the demo of loading a number of animations. The source files include floader.mxml, ForcibleLoader.as and XML

Using IViewCursor for XML Traversing

The source code for using IViewCursor for XMLListCollection Navigation is here.

Using IViewCursor for Navigation

The Below code is example for using IViewCursor for ArrayCollection Navigation

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” initialize=”run();”>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.*;
private var myCursor:IViewCursor;
[Bindable]
public var myAC:ArrayCollection;
public var myArray:Array = [ { label:1, data:"One" }, { label:2, data:"Two" }, { label:3, data:"Three" }, { label:4, data:"Four" }, { label:5, data:"Five" },
{ label:6, data:"Six" }, { label:7, data:"Seven" }, { label:8, data:"Eight" }, { label:9, data:"Nine" }, {label:10, data:"Ten"}];

public function run():void {
myAC = new ArrayCollection(myArray);
myCursor=myAC.createCursor();
var sort:Sort = new Sort();
sort.fields = [new SortField("label")];
myAC.sort=sort;
myAC.refresh();
first.enabled = false;
back.enabled = false;
}
public function countLast(theCursor:IViewCursor):int {
var counter:int=0;
var mark:CursorBookmark=theCursor.bookmark;
while (theCursor.moveNext()) {
counter++;
}
theCursor.seek(mark);
return counter;
}
public function countFromSelection():void {
myCursor.findAny(myCB.selectedItem);
var count:int = countLast(myCursor);
ta1.text = “cursor is at: ” + myCursor.current.label;
enableDisableButtons();
}
public function nextCollection():void {
if(! myCursor.afterLast) {
myCursor.moveNext();
ta1.text=”cursor is at: ” + myCursor.current.label;
}
}
public function backCollection():void {
if(!myCursor.beforeFirst) {
myCursor.movePrevious();
ta1.text=”cursor is at: ” + myCursor.current.label;
}
}
public function firstCollection():void {
myCursor.seek(CursorBookmark.FIRST);
ta1.text=”cursor is at: ” + myCursor.current.label;
}
public function lastCollection():void {
myCursor.seek(CursorBookmark.LAST);
ta1.text=”cursor is at: ” + myCursor.current.label;
}
public function navigate(event:MouseEvent):void {
switch(event.currentTarget.label) {
case ‘first’:
firstCollection();
break;
case ‘back’:
backCollection();
break;
case ‘next’:
nextCollection();
break;
case ‘last’:
lastCollection();
break;
}
enableDisableButtons()
}
public function enableDisableButtons():void{
var firstInCollection:Boolean = myAC.getItemAt(0) == myCursor.current;
first.enabled = back.enabled = !firstInCollection
var lastInCollection:Boolean = myAC.getItemAt(myAC.length – 1) == myCursor.current;
last.enabled = next.enabled = !lastInCollection;
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:ComboBox id=”myCB” dataProvider=”{myAC}” change=”countFromSelection();”/>
<mx:TextArea id=”ta1″ height=”200″ width=”175″/>
<mx:HBox>
<mx:Button label=”first” id=”first” click=”navigate(event)”/>
<mx:Button label=”back” id=”back” click=”navigate(event)”/>
<mx:Button label=”next” id=”next” click=”navigate(event)”/>
<mx:Button label=”last” id=”last” click=”navigate(event)”/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:Application>