Jonnie Spratley On Flex

So when the original idea came into my head about mixing Textpattern and the Flex Framework, I was just thinking about keeping it all in the browser. But why keep a Flex based administrator panel for Textpattern still in the browser? I have no idea, that’s why I am taking Flexpattern to the desktop via Adobe Air.

This is going to be for the power-users of Textpattern with tons of features that are going to make every Textpattern users life a whole lot easier.

Features Include:

• Full Control over Textpattern Administrator Area
• Flex Charting of site stats and logs
• Drag and Drop image download/upload
• File upload/download
• Image editing
• Export articles to file
• Local copy of all Articles, Categories, Links, Options, Plugins, Styles, Pages, Forms, etc. in a SQLite Database
• Offline support (write or edit article, save it, then when online sync it)
• Yahoo YUI Rich Text Editor with added features 

Any requests.. let me know.

Here is screen shots from the app.

I hope that was enough, if not I will be glad to take more. Even though I have started school again I am still working hard and things are coming together really well. I might need a few tips though when I get into the file handling and user login.

I have to do some more things before we all can use it.

Run-time endpoints
Tidy up the amfphp services
If anyone can build a plugin to access the amfphp services that would be awesome

And here is the list of to dos:

Fix colors, layout, icons, words, effects, validation, size, sqlite, image management, file management, graphs, php services, deletion of records not properly taking from the arraycollection, and a few other little ones.

Anyways, I need some encouragement for me to finish this, and I thought that it was time to show some of my progress. I hope that I can make some people really put textpattern to work. ;)

Tags: Air, Amfphp, as3, Cairngorm, Flex, flexpattern, ria, Textpattern

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