Nigel,Thankyou - I am in the picture now.I appreciate it is difficult to
conceive or conceptulise what patterns and needs might emerge at this
stage. Real-time collaborative interaction is a new consideration for me
and describing how an object should behave whilst being under the
influence of multiple users has never been a design issue. I will no
doubt discover as I get stuck in.ThanksAndy
The concept of AFCS is now clear to me - and it’s looking good.Are there
any specific standards regarding how collaborative interactions are
defined that I should be taking into consideration?I would not want to
reinvent the wheel if Adobe is planning some kind of interoperable
schema. I realise 'interactions' are broad and range from describing the
states of game characters to the transitions in an elearning quiz - but
is there a core pattern that adobe has already identified?Please do not
misu...
Thank you Raff.I get the picture now. I was assuming that if you could
create rooms, authenticate etc from a third party server - then you
could also send a 'message' to the room.Its good that you are planning
it as it will open a world of possibilities.
I have had a think... about the AFCS concept and how to use it
strengths.The biggest value to me is that at its core the service can
manage and 'push' data to clients in real-time - which is something I
currently would find impossible to do. In the initial stages of an
application design I thus need to differentiate between what data needs
to be 'pushed' in real-time and what data can be 'pulled' when
required.In the above question I fell into the trap of believing I had
to push image data aroun...
Hello Raff,Non flex would be a small flash application for example
running on a mobile phone.It does have to be chat... it could be a
person submitting a photograph to the room for collaborators to use.I am
not overly technical in these matters but my perception of what the AFCS
is might be wrong... I see your big server a place where resources can
be placed for people to jointly interact with. How those resources,
whether they be images or text get into that room does not nesscary have
to be vi...
Quick question!Is it possible to have a core of flex based rich
interactions occuring in a 'room', but also tap into selective
interactions - say only the chat to send/receive from a mobile device
for example?I do realise this would be done on the server.A hypothetical
example would be some users working from the desktop (in the flex app)
and other users in the 'field' relying information into the chat
interaction from a mobile phone.
Stefan,The youtube demo works now – thanks.I appreciate what you and
Raff are saying. The considerations regarding real-time data transfer is
a new area for me. I am quite a cautious and conservative developer who
never really goes for ‘effect’ – I will carefully assess the
communicative value of an interaction before sticking it in an
application.I am beginning to build a picture of what is involved (I
know this is obvious):Collaborative interactions send messages which get
multiplied from the ...
Thankyou Raff.I should really accept the idea that Adobe is offering a
super collaboration server that can handle all this data transfer and I
don't really need to think about. I need to forget about the
restrictions on my own little server....... and think BIG!BTW: I am not
planning the next killer social application.Thanks again.
During the intial design stages of a project it would be useful to know
what aspects of the AFCS are the most network intensive, and perhaps the
most likely areas to cause delayed collaboration responses. I am asking
this because there seems so many tempting 'rich' interactions made
readily available through AFCS.For example does video streaming take a
lot of resource or is it tracking all the interactions on a whiteboard?
Or is it the voice transmission?I realise it depends on how many users
ar...
Stefan,That would be very very helpful.I started with puremvc only last
year and it has really helped me tidy up my approach to application
design. Although it did take me a long time to get my head around
everything.... particularly pipes. Very clever stuff.No pressure for the
post! I am currently finishing of my teaching term and then I will get
more free time to dabble with AFCS.Please tell me when you do post
anything.
Fantastic. I know you should read the 'manual' - but some of your
audience, including me, are not full time developers and we like to get
a real quick overview. I personally would be interested in seeing how a
custom component would be built. A basic example might be tracking each
user’s mouse movement like the whiteboard (the base of a game I
suppose)…. does that come under custom messaging? Maybe that’s too
complex – I don’t know. Great stuff.
Thanks guys,That is was I needed to know - it will work.I see these
colloboration pods/components being great supplementry interactions for
elearning applications.Thankyou.
Hello, I am at the conceptualisation stage in my project design and new
to cocomo. Is it possible to build a modular application, say using
puremvc that only loads cocomo components as and when required – i.e. if
the user wants to use the whiteboard then it is loaded in, if they want
to chat then the chat module is loaded in etc. All the components would
need to connect to the same room. Or, do all the interactive cocomo
components you want to use have to go inside one big
ConnectSessionContaine...
My curiosity got the better of me... I just tried it again.I can be a
bit more helpful - I get the intial login and can log in, however a few
moments later the computer grinds to a halt - I can hardly get windows
task manager to run. My pc is old, but I run lots of 3D graphics
software and I never have a problem... the you tube living room app is
definitely sucking the life out of it....I don't like to be negative
about such a great looking service, but I guess you need to know.
Quick note to mention that the 'You Tube Living Room' application
freezes up my pc... I have to terminate internet explorer.My PC is an XP
machine about four years old - I do not have a webcam attached, maybe it
was that.... there are not any error messages.
Thanks Cocomo, I was jumping in with too much excitement! I did agree to
the terms and conditions, but I did not read them... for technical
reasons. My adobe acrobat plugin malfunctioned a some time ago, having
been unable to fix it I have been simply downloading PDF's and reading
them offline. But, you cannot do that with links embedded in flex and
the terms PDF was nowhere else to be found.Anyway, I found the service
restrictions and see the bandwidth is 3GB and concurrent users is 15.
Hello,Simple question: I compiled the collaborative image viewer
application to test out the service. I am wondering where all the images
go when the users upload them? Can they be cleaned out for example by me
as the account administrator? Is there a limit to how much can be
uploaded?Services like this are excellent for users like me (I am not a
full time developer - I am a teacher) it means I can just get on and try
things out without having to reinvent the wheel with core functionality
- very...
