Flash Drawing Mexico
I have put together a demo showing my FAR (FlashArchive), SHP (ESRI Shapefile reader) and DBF (XBase file reader) libraries working together. The sample loads a number of .shp and .dbf files from a FAR archive and then parses Mexico’s states, rivers and roads using the SHP lib. Next, the records get drawn using Flash’s [...]
SHP (ESRI Shapefile Reader)
I’ve added another lib to my Google Code page: SHP, a collection of classes for parsing ESRI Shapefiles. This format is used a lot with Geographical Information System (GIS). Using this lib it’s possible to have Flash read in GIS data, and have it render pretty pictures from it. At this time I don’t have [...]
FAR (FlashArchive) Beta 0.1
FAR is reasonably complete now. Its AS3 API has been extended a little to allow better control over progressively downloaded items from the archive, but more importantly, the API is now fully documented.
I’ve moved to API and the command-line tools to Google Code, at:
http://code.google.com/p/vanrijkom-flashlibs
I am working on some more libraries I plan to publish there, [...]
Flash Archive Preview
– Update: FAR is now hosted at Google Code:
– http://code.google.com/p/vanrijkom-flashlibs
I’ve been working a lot with Papervision3D lately. PV3D assets can be numerous and volatile, so I have explored how I can use AS3’s ByteArray to make things better by packing multiple files into one, and compressing them using ZLIB.
FZip already does this. It provides AS3 [...]
Flash on the Beach
Only 18 days until the Flash on the Beach conference (Brighton, UK) starts! There are a lot of interesting sessions to check out. My personal speaker wish-list schedule:
Day 1
* 11.00 Tink - Intro to Flex 2.0
* 13.30 Mike Chambers - Understanding Apollo
* 15.00 Nicolas Cannasse - Revolution 2
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Screenweaver HX - Version 1.0
Over the last months, I have been busy working on Screenweaver HX, together with Nicolas Cannasse.
Screenweaver HX is an extension to the “haXe programming language”:http://www.haxe.org, that enables creating Flash interfaced desktop applications.
GUIs can be made using either haXe, Flash or Flex; both ActionScript 2 and 3 are supported. All application back-end code needs to [...]
FlappleScript
FlappleScript is a C-Level extension for the Mac version of the Flash Authoring tool. It allows you to run AppleScripts. It’s available for download here.
For those curious how the extension came about, read on:
Conferences
Early September, I’ll be doing a session on ‘Flash Internals’ at Flash Forward Austin. Since I’m presently working with the SWF format intensively for my thesis studies, I’m hoping to be able to shed some light on how coding and animation techniques get reflected on byte code level.
A little later, in December, I’ll be doing [...]
Multi-mania
I’ve had the privilege of being part of the Open Source Flash panel discussion at the multi-mania conference in Kortrijk, Belgium. (Why you ask? Because of my previous appearance at Spark. In turns out that once you get invited to speak at one conference, chances you’ll be speaking at another one in the near future [...]
Screenweaver Eclipse Alpha
We, Lennart Kats and myself, have just published a first alpha version of Screenweaver 3 for Eclipse! All info on how where to download and how to install can be found here.
I’ve made a start with providing “AMES” integration, by providing a custom Ant task for building Screenweaver projects. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t work yet [...]