Weber Design Labs » AIR http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog Open Source Thought Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:49:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Multitouch Support In Flash http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2009/12/multitouch-support-in-flash/ http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2009/12/multitouch-support-in-flash/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:34:50 +0000 Stephen http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/?p=207 Adobe AIR 2 provides end users with exceptional application experiences while giving developers the easiest and most powerful way to develop desktop applications across multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux).

AIR 2 builds on the success of AIR 1 by giving developers new capabilities, and even tighter integration with the desktop. Some new features of AIR 2 include:
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<li>Support for the detection of mass storage devices.</li>
<li>Advanced networking capabilities like secure sockets, UDP support, and the ability to listen on sockets.</li>
<li>Support for native code integration.</li>
<li>The ability to open a file with its default application.</li>
<li>Multi-touch and gesture support.</li>
<li>New APIs for access to raw microphone data.</li>
<li>Webkit update with HTML5/CSS3 support.</li>
<li>Global error handling.</li>
<li>Improved cross-platform printing</li>
<li>Improved security and support for enterprise and government standards.</li>
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<div>Here is a demo video of Multitouch in action:</div>
<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ width=”425″ height=”344″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”src” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/va33sU-_Bzk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;” /><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><embed type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/va33sU-_Bzk&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true”></embed></object>

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<object width=”425″ height=”256″><param name=”movie” value=”http://tv.adobe.com/assets/swf/player.swf”></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><param name=”FlashVars” value=”fileID=2475&context=162&embeded=true&environment=production”></param><embed src=”http://tv.adobe.com/assets/swf/player.swf” flashvars=”fileID=2475&context=162&embeded=true&environment=production” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”256″></embed></object>

You can read more here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/multitouch_gestures.html

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http://labs.bigspaceship.com/2009/02/12/3s-vs-3d/

Away3D 2.3 Is Out – Check out these demos
http://away3d.com/away3d-23-feature-overload

TubeLoc (a mashup of YouTube and LocalConnection) is an ActionScript 3 library that serves as an adapter to the YouTube ActionScript 2 Player API.
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/articles/tubeloc.html

Lita – SQLite Administration Tool (AIR)
http://www.dehats.com/drupal/?q=node/58

wonderfl online compiler, code snippets, ActionScript – Crazy cool
http://wonderfl.kayac.com/

NY Times Article Search API
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/announcing-the-timestags-api/

GTweenTimeline
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2009/02/gtweentimeline.html

Papervision Primitives
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/23-papervision3d-primitives-17-new-ones/

Intro to Flex – Part 2
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=100

New WiiFlash Demos
http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/?p=178

PixelBender Camera Experiment

http://incubator.quasimondo.com/flash/feedback.php

AS Language Reference in an AIR app
http://www.airdoc.be/

GTween Beta 5 released
http://www.gskinner.com/libraries/gtween/#download

Standalone Flash/Flex/AIR debugger
http://www.monsterdebugger.com/

New 3DSMax XML Exporter & PV3D XML Primitive
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/new-3dsmax-xml-exporter-pv3d-xml-primivtive/

Flash CS4 Spherical Panorama (animating uvtData)
http://professionalpapervision.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/flash-cs4-spherical-panorama-animating-uvtdata/

Working with the FLARToolkit – Augmented Reality
http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2009/02/03/seb-and-his-magic-particles/

Another FLARToolkit Demo
http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/02/awesome-flash-demo-from-japan/

Gtweeny – Lightweight Gtween
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2009/02/gtweeny_lightwe.html

Latest Rumors About Flash and iPhone
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1948

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This is a very customizable application, so get into it and have fun. All it does is read from an XML file and search based off of your input.

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  • TweenLite – The fastest tweening engine available – see this test. Only 3K in size and is available for AS3 and AS2. For filters see the TweenFilterLite engine.
  • Papervision3D – A 3D engine for displaying simple elements from cubes to complex models and interactive materials. The most popular 3D engine available for Flash. Still in beta, but used a lot already in the commercial industry.
  • Away3D – Another 3D engine for Flash. This one is less popular, but has production ready code, regular code releases and is based on Papervision. See this demo and be amazed.
  • WOW Engine – AS3 3D Physics Engine. Great for use with Papervision3D or Away3D.
  • FIVe3D – 3D Animation engine in AS2 and AS3.
  • Ribbit – An amazing technology that lets Flash call a phone and use the microphone on your computer. Enables Flash pieces to receive phone calls. Visual voice mail, with speech to text capabilities. Very easy component-based implementation.
  • WiiFlash – Takes the revolutionary Wii controller and takes it to Flash. Using WiiFlash you can create entirely new and very fun experiences for users.
  • APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) – The biggest physics engine available for Flash. Its fantastic for 2D animations, but beyond that it needs more.
  • AMFPHP - Want to get data from your database into Flash? Well this is the one I would recommend. It uses very easy PHP gateway architecture. Also very fast and easy to test services.
  • Flickr Library – Want to get at the very popular and fun to use Flickr service? Use this to make it easier on yourself.
  • RSS Library – Love those RSS feeds? Want to bring them in your code and rip them apart? Use this to really handle those RSS feeds. Even though its a standard format there are a lot of little details to them.
  • YouTube – Everyone loves youtube. Everyone wants to take video and present it in a unique and useful way, so make your own fun interface with it and use this to make it easier for ya.
  • FZip - It used to be hard to make those zip files. Used to have to use a server-side script to help you out, but now just use this library and your good to go.
  • AS3SoundEditorLib – Application displays a spectrum of the mp3 file, displays cue points from a file, and allows navigation and playback of mp3 and navigation between cue points.
  • Facebook-AS3 – Implementation of Facebook’s REST API in Actionscript 3.
  • AS3Crypto – A cryptography library written in Actionscript 3 that provides several common algorithms.
  • AlivePDF – AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library.
    It allows you to generate PDF’s client-side.
  • ASSQL – Get actionscript to talk directly to MySQL.
  • Yahoo! Maps Communication Kit – The Maps API allows incorporation of GeoRSS feeds, custom marker creation, and many other features.
  • AS3CoreLib – The corelib project is an ActionScript 3 Library that contains a number of classes and utilities for working with ActionScript 3. These include classes for MD5 and SHA 1 hashing, Image encoders, and JSON serialization as well as general String, Number and Date APIs.
    • ]]>     http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/08/20-flash-resources-and-tools-youll-want/feed/ 8     Free RSS Reader with Search (Flex/AIR with PHP Proxy) Open Source http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/05/free-rss-reader-with-search-flexair-with-php-proxy/ http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/05/free-rss-reader-with-search-flexair-with-php-proxy/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 05:40:23 +0000 Stephen http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/?p=31 So I made this awhile ago as an experiment. It seemed to me that Flex was perfect for an interactive RSS Reader. A lot of people have problems with getting remote RSS feeds (and my solution I am sure is not perfect). If anyone finds a better solution please pass it on in the comments. This piece of code is AIR, but I also have a web-based Flex version available (see demo link below). This RSS Reader uses PHP to get the RSS feed from the remote site. I have included all the code and assets for the AIR version and the Flex version. Please use it and learn from it and then make it better.

    Please post links to anywhere you use it and tell me if you like it. I love to hear that some of these Flex projects are appreciated!

    Features:

    • Retrieves multiple RSS Feeds
    • Searches for multiple keywords in each post’s title and description then ranks them by how many keywords matched
    • Re-arrangeable Search Keywords with Drag and Drop Easy of Use
    • Run from Web or Desktop
    • Uses purely Open Source Software and Open Source Code
    • Free (Just Like All Weber Design Labs Products)

    FlexibleRSS Screenshot

    View Demo

    (Just Add A Feed In The Demo)

    Download FlexibleRSS Code Version V1

    Install FlexibleRSS Now
    (Installs App And AIR If You Dont Have It)

    Download FlexibleRSS AIR Application (1252)


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    ]]>     http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/05/free-rss-reader-with-search-flexair-with-php-proxy/feed/ 7     Free FLV Player – Drag n’ Drop http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/05/free-flv-player-drag-n-drop/ http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/2008/05/free-flv-player-drag-n-drop/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 02:50:15 +0000 Stephen http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/?p=30 So anyone who knows me knows I LOVE Flex. I also found I love AIR. If you don’t know about these two technologies then you must check them out and give them a fair chance. I know new things are scary, but some you just see are going to change how quickly we can make an application. For example I made this simple application in about 45 minutes (and I know I am slow compared to the good programmers).

    AIR Web Installer and FLV Player Installer

    If the AIR Installer Badge doesn’t work, then you can directly download the air file here

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