Another genius thought created while day dreaming in morning, Atlanta traffic.
Xavier = Class
Spiderman = Prototype
Wolverine = ActionScript 2
… I know, Spiderman isn’t from the X-men, but I couldn’t think of a mutant that was strictly genectically mutated and had no inborn mutant powers beforehand.
Schweet! Not bad for about 14 total hours of work. Proof that components save you oodles of time. I utilized <a href=”http://www.blinex.com/”>B-Line’s</a> USA map for it. There are some usability issues with the window, but in the amount of time I had, I couldn’t implement some of my girlfriends text formatting or UI suggestions.
At any rate, a big thanks to Mike Haggerty for the opportunity!
Flash Map – <a href=”http://www.clark04.com/issues/turnaround/map/”>Wes Clark’s Turnaround Plan for Amercia</a>
There is a scientific theory called entropy in that all things eventually return to chaos. You build a bridge, it’ll eventually rot. You live, you die and decay. Mountains are created by plate techtonics only to be sliced by rivers and weathered by rain, returning to the sediment of rock in which they arose from.
Read on…
Discussion going on the JSAPI (JSFL) list about DLL’s & JSAPI. I had an idea for an RA (Rich Application); a Flash app that had local file access, but could also write to the local disk as well. Basically, this one developer posted an Asteroids game. It allowed you to play Asteroids inside of Flash… that’s right, on your stage. He updated it to use the drawing layer and it was pretty fast.
Guy Watson chimed in about writing a special DLL that has the required header and API and then you place in the Flash External Libraries configuration folder so you can then utilize the methods of the DLL in JSAPI like so (via <a href=”http://mxblogspace.journurl.com/users/compiled/index.cfm?mode=article&entry=1096″>Compiled</a>):
sample.dll in folder
fl.trace(Sample); /// [Object object]
and running through the props:
for( var i in Sample )
{
fl.trace( i + ” – ” + Sample[i] );
}
Returns:
name Sample
MM__path – path\Sample.dll
MM_loaded – true
In Compiled’s example.
It got me thinkging about an RA…
Remember all those people (you may be one of them) that wanted local file access? Guy Watson mentioned that he was developing a DLL for use in JSAPI that could read & write files & folders because he was an official, 3rd party extension developer. Now, you can run Flash in a Flash Panel which allows you to have Flash movies have access to JSAPI. Therefore, you could have a Flash app, as well, that runs in a Panel AND give it access to that DLL which in turn gives Flash access to the local machine.
Again, after seeing that Flash game in action running INSIDE OF FLASH, I could see a plethora of people writing mini-applications, in Flash, in Flash… or using a SWF in a Panel inside of the Flash IDE. Although Central will soon give us local file access, why not develop your RA for the Flash IDE? Granted, Screenweaver and other 3rd party apps do this, but there is still a lot of opportunity and different features available here.
Postulations & Ideas…
Thoughts?