Perhaps not as exciting as yesterdays’ post, but at least this time I’m showing off my own experiaments! This time, we’re looking at sound visualization with ActionScript 3. And playing around with Zinc to get a transparent-desktop application version. Neat, huh?
From côdeazur:
FZip
FZip is an Actionscript 3 class library to load standard
ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files.FZip parses ZIP archives progressively, allowing access
to contained files while the archive is loading.
http://codeazur.com.br/lab/fzip/
The potential for this is impressive, and they’ve already implimented it in ways I wouldn’t've thought possible – an automatic .air file update checker. I’m not even sure there is a file format left that the ActionScript 3 trio can’t manipulate…
Well, it’s gone Friday, so where’s my new AIR app? Unfortunately, I can’t give it you yet – although its nearly ready to be unleashed, I can’t show it until the next issue of the E-Newsletter is sent out. (That’s Marketing for you.) So you’ll have to hang on for a few weeks yet.
Nevermind, eh? I certainly learnt a lot playing with Flex builder / Air / AS3, and here’s hoping that I’ll have some spare time to do a few articles on what I’ve learnt – pitfalls, theory, code snippets, that kind of thing.
One thing I realised is that your intrinsic knowledge of Flash and it’s specialised coding methods mean very little working in Flex, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s bad – Flash programming is probably a bit of a niché market in how it’s done and works, and I get the impression that the Flex approach is a lot more mainstream theory-wise, so I’m prepared to put the effort into learning to code properly.
“James!” they say, “you’ve been dying to play with Flex and Air. Make us an application to accompany our E-Newsletter!” How could I refuse?
“You have until friday.”
So that’s what I’ve been doing.
I have unfortunately, no previous experience with Flex, Air or even ActionScript 3, so this is proving to be interesting. Marketing has settled on producing an RSS reader – stay tuned and I’ll let you know how things turn out in couple o’ days.
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