Looking at Dele’s new version of Sparkweb Red5 with the Browser tab. Looks really good and is a great innovation. I’m trying to imagine our users’ experiencing this feature, and can imagine the user wanting to choice to expand the browser viewing area. Possibly by collapsing the Roster and Presense pane… I’m very newbie to flash/flex but this seems like more of an AJAX type of control would be needed to accomplish it. Anyone with a guidance how we can do this. Any thoughts?
I use it with a screen resolution wider than 1280 and my Webmail application fits within what is left. I like the idea of the roster pane being adjustable and I will take a look at that for a later release.
Well, I liked the idea of the roster window sliding out of view so much that I went looking over the weekend for an free OS component and found a sliding drawer component that does exactly what I was looking for. If you are interested, have a look at http://red5.4ng.net/gtms/red5-0.1.02.zip
The roster window has an icon on the top right corner to pin and unpin the roster. By default, it is pinned and behaves like previous versions. When unpinned, the roster will slide out of view if the mouse is move elsewhere and will appear when the mouse is moved to the edge of the window on the left. This give the web application maximium browser screen width. There is however a quirk. When a phone call or subscription request window pops up on the screen, the roster is automaticcaly pinned and the web application becomes invisible to display the popup window. Depending on what you are doing in the web application, this could be unexpected and undesired behaviour.
This is very cool component. Can we pass parameters to the control, such as collapse or expanded?
Frrom Javascript in the web application, no, but I am working on it. In Flex, yes. Modify the source code and recompile with Flex SDK.