opensource

A pure Flash Blog. OpenSource!

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , ,

Guys at Motion4graphics.com have developed a flash blog ( www.flashblog.org ), i think the first Weblog made in Flash/Php/MySQL Opensource.

It is a project that is in Beta test, but that the main features already are already included. As they said: “We wished to be extending benefits little by little, we didn’t want to reinvent the Weblog”.
Next there will be the feature to donwload all the archives.

The main features are actually:
– Front End, developed in Flash.
– BackEnd developed in Php/MySQL
– Creation of categories.
– Searches.
– Limitation of entrances by page.
– extended Entrances (read more..).
– Publisher wysiwyg.
– Multiple users and authors.
– Limitless vertical Stage.
– Function botons back/ahead.
– Source codes FLA including.

Jpegs can be added, including the limitations of flash which can load only non progressive jpegs.. maybe they can add the GD support (or also image magik) in order to let all jpegs compatible and also PNG (waiting for gif support come back in the GD lib) ?
I’m still trying to understand how is set the framework.. how data is transmitted to flash (xml, remoting or flat loadvars)..

It seems a really promising project. take a minute to look at this.

FP XHTML Render

Alessandro Crugnola actionscript , , , ,

Today I received an email announcing me the new sourceforge project regarding Flash.
This is the direct link to the download area:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/…download
Reading the documentation (contained in the .zip file d/dl):
The project is intended to extend Macromedia Flash player (version 7.x or +) capabilities to parse XHTML formatted pages and render them into the Flash stage.
…
FP XHTML Render supports the most common HTML tags

It also supports various CSS attributes.
In fact, once downloaded the zip file from sourceforge i see at the example provided.
The test html page with table and cells too is perfect rendered, as i can see..
Now, let’s try something more complex than the provided example 😉

author is Marco Sangalli.
thanks!

PearPC, MacOSX under Windows!

Alessandro Crugnola general , , , , , ,

I was pleased to verify that an emulator of 300kb (less than the flahs player..) is able to run Mac OSX under my WindowsXP machine!
Now i think i will fight as usual against mac 🙂
but at least i hope to i will be able to configure my python/wxPython there too in order to have a way to test sepy there too..

What is PearPC?
PearPC is an Open Source emulator for PowerPC CPUs, licensed under the GPL. It was developed by Sebastian Biallas and Stefan Weyergraf. With this emulator it is possible to run Software, that normally only runs on PPCs, like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux for PPC, etc.

This project is hosted on sourceforge site:
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net

p.s. thanks you valley for suggesting me this link!

A PHP domxml class in flash style!

Alessandro Crugnola php , , ,

Some days ago Daniele, a friend of mine, point my attention to an opensource project hosted on sourceforge that is very interesting for PHP/Flash guys 🙂
This module permit to do an xml parsing, in PHP, using a dom xml in the same way we already do in flash.

Here a little example i made using this class:

<?
// include the php module
include('lib.xml.inc.php');
// load an external xml source
$test = new XML('test.xml');

// make a simple parsing, in AS style ;)
$childs = $test->firstChild->childNodes;
for($a = 0; $a < count($childs); $a++){	
echo "nodeName " . $childs[$a]->nodeName . "<br />";	
echo "nodeValue " . $childs[$a]->firstChild->nodeValue . "<br />";
}
?>

as you can see, we’re already familiar with firstChild, nodeName, nodeValue… etc..
I always hate the PHP SAX parser, and always always prefer a dom xml parser, much more simple to create and to read.