Actionscript3, Flash, Java, C#, C++, Algorithms & Imageprocessing
Ralph Hauwert put a very interesting blog post up no his blog about Adobe Alchemy. Basically he was reading my mind with this post.
I want to a step further now. But please keep in mind that I am definitly not a compiler expert or have deep knowledge of the Flash Player. Everything I write about is in my opinion common sense and comes from a long time of reverse engineering and autodidactic learning.
Adobe released today the beta of the Flash Player 10 on its labs website. Among a couple of really great features is also one that made my day.
Dynamic Sound Generation — Dynamic sound generation extends the Sound class to play back dynamically created audio content through the use of an event listener on the Sound object.
If you do not know what this means: Flash is now finally capable of doing real dynamic audio streaming. I am so happy that Adobe was listening to the community and implemented this feature. A special thanks goes out to Tinic Uro for implementing it. He has also very detailed information about this feature on his blog.
I will post soon some example about how you can use Adobe Pixel Bender (Hydra) to synthesize sound in Flash. Think of it — its fantastic!
Back in March 2007 I was writing about Photoshop Express and they finally released it.
So they have been developing this for a year. Which means they had enough time to perfectly screw up the @ sign when trying to register? People from the US will not notice this but if you try logging in with a German keyboard layout on Windows your basicaly screwed (or you can copy-past your e-mail address all the time because the @ sign is not working).
I am a little bit disappointed :)
Please support our campaign Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE! if you love Flash and music.
Today I submitted my first patch to the FlexSDK after becomming a contributor. Lets see how this all will work in the future. It feels like I am working for free and fixing bugs that Adobe should work on but in several cases it is so much easier to just do the stuff and fix it yourself in 5min instead of writing 2h emails. Although I am not so happy about it.
Getting the Flex SDK to work is pretty easy if you manage several hurdles. It is quite cool to debug the ActionScript compiler while compiling your project.
The next thing I want to fix is the Bindable meta tag. [Bindable] in ActionScript projects is a pain if you do not compile with the flex.swc library and there is no reason for the compiler to embed the overhead of creating event dispatchers all over the place.
We are here already using “our” new compiler. Again it will be quite interesting to see how all this works out with Adobe and how they will judge about feature submissions.
