FLUORINE is an open source .NET Flash Remoting Gateway. It allows you to call ASP.NET pages, web services and .NET assemblies from Flash. Also available is class mappings which allow you to map an ActionScript class to a .NET class.
Flash Lite 2 – Authoring Update on Labs
Adobe had officially hosted the Flash Lite 2 Update for Flash Professional 8 preview release in labs. This updater will add Flash Lite 2-specific authoring features to your Flash Professional 8. Check out…
FFmpeg supports 3GPP format
Dennis baldwin had findout the option of converting .mov files to 3GPP format with FFmpeg, which does fastest encoding than anyother encoding tool like QuickTime Pro. Checkout the article to know more..
FMS Dynamic buffering strategy
Fabio Sonnati had posted an article on dynamic buffering, how to set it dymanic through script. His test graphs with default buffer settings and dynamic buffer settings shows much differences. Just take a look on his article.
Admin Consoles and App Inspectors for FMS2 and FCS1.5
Stoem had hosted Consoles and Application Inspectors for Flash Media Server and FCS 1.5. You can manage your FCS Servers from anywhere. Great Stuff!!!
Enterprise Architect 6.0 with ActionScript 2.0 support
The resent version of Enterprise Architect has the support for Round-trip Engineering of Actionscript 2.0. EA easily imports the class files and build them into class diagrams. Much more features are packed inside the new version.
haXe Programming Language
Nicolas Cannasse, creator of MTASC, the open source Flash compiler, has just released a public preview of his haXe programming language & compiler. It has a full working parser with type checking, as well as a complete language reference.
Basicly, what haXe can do is :
- create Flash SWF files using Flash APIs for Players 6,7,8 and soon 8.5.
- generate Javascript code using Browser DHTML API, so you can create AJAX web applications.
- generate Neko sourcecode that can be used on the Server side or in standalone executable.
FlashPlayer 8.5 Alpha performance test
Some geeks made performance test gauging with older versions like FlashPlayer 7 and 8. FlashPlayer 8.5 Alpha is performing 10 times better. View the report on oddhammer.com
Next Generation Flash Platform Alpha Out
Flex Builder 2, the Flex Framework 2, Flex samples, command line tools, and Flash Player 8.5 for Windows are out. Get it and tryout those. It’s all hot
XMI2Actionscript – Tool to generate Actionscript pseudo code from your UML Design
When you were using Flash for an application development project, UML Design is the first step out of it. Like any other programming languages, now we can create Actionscript pseudo code from UML. XMI2Actionscript easily creates the Actionscript pseudo code when you design UML with Enterprise Architect or with ArgoUML.
Export your UML Design to a *.XMI file and using .XMI file, you can create the AS2 Classes with all the relationship and package structures.
Features :
1. Source: XMI version 1.0 or 1.2, Output HTML page with all the classes.
2. Support for inheritence (extends)
3. Support for complex Namespaces
4. Automatic creation of folders in accordance to classes’ namespaces.
5. AS2DOC compatible standard documentation copying from XMI, Including documentation for methods params.
6. Automatic creation of static variables required by CreateClassObject
7. Automatic creation of constructor
8. Recognition for static methods
9. UI interface available in .Net 1.1 and for web as ASP. XSL which is used for conversion is an external file, thus you can extend it easily.
10. A special dialog to select the classes you wish to export from the file or altogether.