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Amethyst Actionscript editor

Alessandro Crugnola general , , , , , ,

amethyst screenshotIt’s since the first time I used Eclipse that I’m waiting for an actionscript editor non eclipse based!

I never like eclipse and hated all its problems.
Unfortunately Adobe decided to implement its editor over eclipse and also other nice editors, like fdt, used the eclipse framework to build their own editors.
I used Visual Studio for a while but that was enough to make me fall in love with it.
Visual Studio is indeed the best editor at all, without doubts!
Finally I discovered an interesting project for editing actionscript projects integrated into Visual Studio.
Amethyst is still in beta and probably too premature to be used in large production environment, but it’s a great news for me.
I hope they’ll continue in the development and create a serious competitor for Flash Builder.
For more info visit their product page: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Amethyst-Product-Page

Welcome to Myna, newest Aviary bird!

Alessandro Crugnola aviary , , , , ,

Today Aviary released a new tool of his suite: Myna.
Myna is a powerful online audio editor, made by Alan Queen, which allows to create quickly audio remix.
You can upload, record or just use one of the tons of available clips ( thanks to the partnership with APM Music and its Quantum tracks library ) to create cool audio mix.
More about Myna:
  • Powerful Clip Editing
    Trim, Loop, Stretch and Reverse your audio clips, width editable loop points, and interactive time stretch capabilities.
  • Automation
    Easily add fade-ins, fade-outs, pan from left to right, and modify gain over time, with editable control points.
  • Effects
    Add non-destructive effects to your audio clips including Pitch Change, Reverb, Delay, Parametric EQ, and more.
  • Import / Export
    Import your own audio files, or search one of our provided libraries. Mix it down and export directly to your desktop or publish back to your account.
Let’s enjoy it!

Red5, first thoughts

Alessandro Crugnola flash media server , , , ,

As I promised myself, I started to spend some of the time in testing red5 since I’ve read the about the 0.6RC1 release.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to run it on my Windows Vista so I try it on an older Windows XP. Once unpacked the installer I first tested some of the example applications boundled, everything worked fine.. cool, nice, great project indeed!

But then I wanted to migrate one of my FCS2 projects to Red5 in order to test “the real world”.
Ok, I need to write in Java? (there’s Python support, but it’s Jython) Cool.. I never seen Java, I thought it was a monster with eight heads 🙂
Got the first Java editor I found on the net, IntelliJIdea (what a wonderful editor indeed! much expensive, but really cool), and started with headache..
But at least, for a newbie like me, it seems to me like editing ActionScript3 files, so it wasn’t so difficult to make things running.
I’m still “trying” to re-write the application (with minor changes also in the flash files) but I managed to make remote sharedobjects, streams and remote calls running like in the FCS2 original application and I’m so happy 🙂

I just encounter a couple of time a Windows blue screen error while getting webcam streams (I need to make a snapshot next time) and some human unreadable java exceptions (It’s indeed a my fault) but I think it was a positive beginning after all.
Great great compliments to red5 developers!

SE|PY ActionScript editor 1.0.3.3

Alessandro Crugnola SEPY , , ,

I’ve just uploaded a new version (1.0.3.3) of SEPY ActionScript Editor.
In this version:

  • Minor graphical changes
  • fixed: [ 994202 ] Cancel New project Error
  • fixed: [ 994203 ] Missing tooltip (minor bug)
  • Removed “;” after closing bracket “}” in the autoformat code.
  • Added option for use the auto-indent feature
  • Switched to wxPython 2.5.2.3pu-20040722
  • Changes in the Flash Help window.

Download the Windows installer
Download the source code

As always, thanks to all the people who help me with bugs reporting. It’s essential for the project development.
P.S. I’ve noticed that python group just released the first alpha of python 2.4. Once released the final release I will switch to the new version.