Handout is a desktop application I’ve made that allows you to drag and drop upload your documents to Adobe SHARE.

GO HERE TO INSTALL THE LATEST VERSION OF HANDOUT

 

Features

1. Drag and Drop upload multiple files to Share

2. Public share any of your Share Files.

3. Send Share file links directly to Pownce or Twitter. (With message)

4. Create a tinyurl for a Share public link.

5. Quickly get embed code for a shared file.

6. Share links and direct file links.

 

Handout Screen Shots

 

- File upload 

 

- SHARE the file

 

 

- Send a share link to Pownce

 

 

Putting it together (Mash-up)

If you haven’t noticed the Flex/Flash community has come a long way in the last year. We now have tons of resources made available through the community. Whether its API’s, frameworks, skins, etc, its the pieces we need to realize our ideas quickly. 

 

Another great mashup:

 

 

Thats really the basis for this little project. Making use of community resources and sharing the results. In future posts I’m planning on discussing in detail the elements that go into concepting, creating, and distributing an AIR app. 

 

Known Issues with Handout (If i know about it, I might as well share it, right?)

1. Deleting a file takes a long time. I believe this is something the Share people are working on.

2. Getting the list of files takes a long time (5-10 seconds). This just started with the last Share update and I’ve reported it. 

3. You must delete a file before you upload the same file again. 

4. On the first login for twitter and pownce you have to click the files icon again to send the link.

5. This app has been tested by my top notch QA team which includes no less than myself, my girlfriend, 2 cats, my brother, and anyone else i could force to look at it and manage to keep their attention for 5 minutes.. so.. you know its solid

6. Code cut off was 5 minutes ago

 

 

Many Thanks to these people who unknowingly contributed

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Adobe SHARE

AS3 API & Service

https://share.adobe.com/adc/adc.do?docid=72b0d849-7863-11dc-b75f-151d3f6d9313

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=656

Share has amazing potential and it will be fun to see what these guys come up with.

 

AirUpdateManager

http://blog.everythingflex.com/2007/10/01/air-update-manager/

 

as3corelib-src

http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/

 

ASCript32

http://ascrypt3.riaforge.org/index.cfm

 

pownce

http://www.pownce.com

 

twitter

http://www.twitter.com

 

Icons

http://famfamfam.com/ and other places on my computer

 

Handout - Application Icon

- My girlfriend

All developers dream of having a girlfriend who is a designer. I’m living that dream.

 

People at the SHARE forum 

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=656

Thanks to Raymond Camden for finding some of the bugs before me. Also, a big thanks to the SHARE people who always respond quickly to questions.

 

AS3notification Library

http://code.google.com/p/as3notificationlib/

Also the sliding dialogs are based on the ones from Salsa

TinyURL

http://tinyurl.com

 

Scale Nine - Share Icon

http://scalenine.com/blog/2007/10/16/thoughts-on-adobe-share/

I think Juan Sanchez made the icon but I may be wrong, its where i got it from…

 

Flex Builder 3 Public Beta 2 

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/

 

Adobe AIR

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/