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AS3 Signals

Nicolas Rajabaly — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:14:36 +0000

Robert Penner have created AS3 Signals, an awesome open-source project, that will make you re-think the way you approach events in all of your future projects.

You can watch a video tutorial here or copy past this link to see it in full screen ( http://pv3d.googlecode.com/files/intro-to-as3-signals.mp4)

For more info on AS3 Signals, check out http://wiki.github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals/ and join the google group.

Download the swc: as3-signals.swc

Voice recognition library based on the Flash Player 10.1 Microphone new feature

Nicolas Rajabaly — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:43:13 +0000

After the Mouse Gesture recognition, Didier Brun aka Foxy is currently working on a voice recognition library based on the Flash Player 10.1 Microphone new feature.

Click here to view the embedded video.

More infos here.

Update Flash CS4 – 10.0.2

Nicolas Rajabaly — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:00:14 +0000

Yeahhh

update and bug fixes : here

download it : here

Yogurt3D Flash Game Engine

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:18:13 +0000

Yogurt3D is a flash based 3d engine which is based on OpenGL called SwiftGL and is stated as open source. The site mentions that OpenGL source can be converted to run in the engine.

Check the demo !

Check the official site !

Adobe Air 1.5.1 released

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:11:42 +0000

Adobe Air 1.5.1 is a relatively minor update that includes a number of bug fixes :

Mac & Windows :

Linux :

This release also contains one useful new feature : InvokeEvent.reason. For more infos, Oliver Goldman, a member of the AIR engineering team, posted a blog entry about it here.

Links :
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Developer and User Release Notes
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Documentation
- Download the Adobe AIR SDK
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Known Issues and Limitations
- Air team blog
- Oliver Goldman blog

SWFAddress 2.2

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:03:47 +0000

The new SWFAddress has just arrived !

The list of changes includes the following :

- Refactored JavaScript implementation
- New SWFAddress.swc AS3 component
- New CS4 based Splash screen sample
- New Digg API sample
- New up() method for easier deep linking path navigation
- New XSS protection that doesn’t affect special characters
- Support for Internet Explorer 8
- Support for custom HTTP status messages in the SEO sample
- Improved title handling
- Improved unload event handling for IE
- Updated Rails sample
- Fixed getBaseURL() for AS3
- Fixed Safari 2.0-2.0.3 support
- Build-in fix for the Firefox 3/Mac OSX blinking effect
- Additional onLoad fix for application/xml content type
- Fixed optional options parameter for the popup method
- Cross platform build script
- Various optimizations

Very soon the same API will become available for Silverlight and a jQuery plugin is coming.

Check It !
Download It !

25 Line ActionScript contest finalists

Nicolas Rajabaly — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:19:04 +0000

Take a look at the finalists of the “25 Line ActionScript” contest.

Check It

Google Maps API for AIR

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:41:10 +0000

The Google Maps API for Flash have now a compatibility with Adobe AIR !

Here you can find a tutorial to build AIR apps, using the Google Maps API, in Flex Builder !

For more infos check the Google Maps API for Flash page.

Adobe Alchemy Project

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:33:51 +0000

Another new release on the adobe labs site is the project called Alchemy.

The purpose of this project is to allow developers to compile C and C++ code into Action Script libraries (AVM2).
With Alchemy, we can now reuse hundreds of millions of lines of existing open source C and C++ client or server-side code on the Flash Platform with the high performance of C and C++.

The C/C++ codes are compiled to ActionScript 3.0 as a SWF or SWC that runs on Adobe Flash Player 10 or Adobe AIR 1.5 !

Alternativa 3D – new demos !

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:23:36 +0000

Here some more Alternativa3D demos.

Adobe Flash Catalyst is coming !

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:19:55 +0000

Adobe has announced that the new name for Thermo will be Adobe Flash Catalyst.

Adobe Flash Catalyst have now his own page on the Adobe lab here where you can find some demos !

You can also check the blog of the Adobe Flash Catalyst Team here where you can find some explorations & lessons !

Benchmark between all flash 3D engines

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:15 +0000

Tsoin have posted a complete benchmark between Sandy3D, Papervision3D, Away3D and Alternativa3D.

You can read it here ! (sorry it’s in french :p )

Papervision3D memory leaks now patched up

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:01:15 +0000

As we can read on the Seb Lee-Delisle blog, the Papervision3D team have just committed a fix that enables the Garbage Collector to tidy up DisplayObject3Ds and materials after references to them have been lost.

You can download the last committed version here.

FlartoolKit – Augmented reality in flash – new demos !

Nicolas Rajabaly — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:53:24 +0000

Do you remember FlartoolKit ? FLARtoolKit is a flash library that allows 3D manipulation using a simple webcam.

Check the new demos !

Click here to view the embedded video.

You can download the lib here !

as3isolib : as3 isometric library for Flash/Flex

Nicolas Rajabaly — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:07:37 +0000

Justin Opitz have released the Alpha of as3isolib, a powerful as3 isometric library for Flash/Flex.

Current features :

* simple scene creation
* 3 primitive types
* base class for displaying user-created content
* plenty of styling option on vector based primitives
* integrates well with a variety of tween engines
* standard 3D isometric positional sorting

To check it :

* wiki
* online doc
* download page

And four tutorials :

* tutorial 1 : how to add an isometric primitive to the display list
* tutorial 2 : Learn to use an IsoScene to layout objects in 3D isometric space
* tutorial 3 : Styling an IIsoPrimitive class
* tutorial 4 : Introducing the IsoSprite class