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Have uploaded a updated version of ASForms (1.2).

In this version I have added a very simple button FormButton. There is also an example of how the event management works.

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ASForms is a very lightweight Actionscript component set. They are basically very similar to forms in HTML, but done in flash. (You know, radio buttons, checkboxes - that kind of thing). This release is fairly stable yet lacks accessibility and the button class which I’m still tweaking. The code examples give a basic indication of how it all works and I’ll make an effort to fill in some of the commenting holes over the next couple of weeks.

The code is released under the GPL MIT and was developed with MTASC strict in a AMES dev environment.  

Check it out here.

technorati tags: Flash, ASForms, Components

Using ANT files is to me one of the attractions of using open source flash. One of the things that I really like is the ability to be able to compile multiple swfs at once.

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Summary:

After swapping to an open Source flash solution for a RIA, the following advantages were achieved:

• saved over 110 working hours in compile time (that’s crazy stuff!!!)
• integrated into the overall dotnet web application a million times better
• less bugs, tighter code, better code
• better development environment

technorati tags: Flash, FAMES, AMES, Open source

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Last December I gave a talk at OSDC on how Open Source Flash development is a million times better than using the Macromedia/Adobe IDE. I said I would upload the files etc. So at last (!) here they are:

• The presentation swf - made from OS Flash of course (AMES). You will need to click on the swf to make it active, then use left, right arrows to navigate (or spacebar).
• The code that made the swf, raw and loosely commented (I was in a rush back then )

technorati tags: Open source, flash

Anyone who has done any serious flash development has worked out that the macromedia components are bloated and buggy. There are some really decent open source alternatives out there but in general they didn’t suit me for a project I was about to start. Check here for an open source component list.

The project was basically a online registration form- the app had to capture data, process some of it then post it to a server. For something like this a full blown component framework was overkill. And because of the older userbase the components had to look very similar to existing html components so that there would be no confusion (hopefully ).

My requirements were:

- they had to look like established user interface components (a radio button had to look like a html radio button).

- they had to be very small in size (anything over 40k was way too big)

- they had to be as fast as using a browsers components (that is, they draw with no lag whatsoever)

- they needed to be skinnable (in regards to colours and size mainly)

- they had to respond to events and be easily redrawn

Although all of the open source flash alternatives were of a high quality they just didn’t quite fit my requirements.

So, I set about creating my own. Below you will find an example of what I have temporarily called As Forms (until I can think of a snappier name).
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I’ve recently being working on a flash ecommerce application using SSL.

But, after checking to make sure its all good in IE, I started getting that annoying “do you want to display the non-secure items” message. After a few minutes trying out a few things I realised that it was getting upset because of the plugin urls specified in the Macromedia code:

pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”

To get rid of the message, I changed the http to https
ie.
pluginspage=”https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”

technorati tags: Flash