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Introduction

TheWhiteboardComponentiswrittenforusewithFlexapplicationsandusesFlashMediaServer

asabackendfordataandsynchronization.Thewhite boardcomesintheformofacontainer

Whiteboard.WhiteboardManager.ThisclassisacanvasandallthewhiteboardsUIelementscan

beputintoitoraround it,thisgivesyoucontroloverallnonshape UIsuchasthemenubarsand

toolbarsetcforafullycustomizedexperience.

AswellasUIcustomizabil itytherearealsomanypublicAPIswhichgivefullcontroloverthe

whiteboardfunc tiona lity,aslowlevelascreatingsh apeswithjustmethodcalls.ThepublicAPIs

aresplitintoseveral‘controllers’whichhostrelevantmethods,propertiesandevents.

Setting upthewhit eboard

Server‐side(FlashMediaServer)

(Ifyouarenewtoflashmediaserverpleaseread

http://flashcomguru.com/artic les/fms2_basics.cfmandthevariousothergettingstartedarticles

onflashcomguru)

Tosetupyourserversideapplicationsimplytaketh eWhiteboard.ascandcopyitintoyour

applicationdirectoryandthenaddthelineload(“Whiteb oard.asc”);toyourownserversidecode .

Togetstartedquicklywit hthesamplescopytheflex_whiteboardfolderfromthe/serverside/

d irectoryintoyourlocalhostapplicationsfolder(typicallyc:\programfiles\Macro media\Flash

MediaServer2\applications\.

Client‐side(FlexBuilder)

InordertousethewhiteboardinyourprojectthefileWhiteboard.SWCmustbeincludedinyour

proj ectaswe llastheresourcefiles(menusandicons).Todothisfindaversionofthewhiteboard

fromthesamplesyouwishtousesuchastheBasi cWhiteboardandbrowseintoit.Ineach

sa mplethereisafoldercalled‘Whiteboard’,thisentirefoldermustbe broughtintoyourproject.

Youcandothisbyeither importingthefolde rin eclipsebyrightclickingonyourapplication‐>

import ‐>filesystemandthenbrowsingtothefolder.

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