Quicker, easier, more colourful!
If you've been hearing a lot about Rainbow Live lately, that's because it's quickly becoming one of the most popular CMS solutions for Flash designers and developers.
Unlike other Flash CMS solutions, Rainbow Live leaves the design of your site completely up to you. There's no ugly templates or limitations to the content you can choose to display.
What is Rainbow?
Rainbow is a browser based XML editor that lets you visually edit XML data using a node based approach.
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Rainbow Live is Rainbow's big brother - it enables you to edit live XML data located on your web server. This works like a simple CMS for any XML based Flash websites.
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Why Rainbow Live?
Rainbow Live was specifically built for Flash based websites and components which typically use external XML data to provide their content.
Benefits of Rainbow
By using an intuitive visual approach, Rainbow minimises the chance of making mistakes and allows you to focus on the important part - the data.
Uses for Rainbow
Rainbow can be used to edit XML for websites, news feeds and components, in fact almost any XML file.
Best of all, Rainbow XML editor is free to use online and requires no installation besides Flash Player 10 or greater.
Introducing the new Rainbow XML API
Now with the new Rainbow API you can display neatly formatted XML on your website quickly and easily for free!
Simply embed the Rainbow.swf file into your HTML and tell it which XML file to display. You can position and size the layout whereever you want.
Just like this:
How it works:
Download the Rainbow.swf and embed it in your HTML page as you normally would. Use the following FlashVars values to activate the API:
- runmode=”display_xml”
- file=”{path to your XML file}”
- title=”{Text you want to appear in the title bar}”
- nodewidth=”{Numeric value - sets the width of the display nodes}”
- feature=”{true/false - shows/hides the text or first attribute for each node}”
- indent=”{Numeric value - dictates the indent of a child node}”