By Michal Romecki,
thursday 12 march 2009 at 18:17 ::haXe
Flash develop 3 supports haXe projects now.
As many IDEs, FD3 has his own completion system that helps you writing code in a specified language, and for now it's haXe language case too.
Here comes a patch for FD3 that allows haXe compiler's built-in completion.
Let's see how install it and how it works.
By Michal Romecki,
sunday 21 december 2008 at 18:28 ::haXe
I've changed a little bit the FEffects Tween class so you can use now, the short syntax that allows working directly on an object's property and you can set the easing function in the constructor.
Some new methods like : pause(), resume(), seek( n : Int ) and reverse() are added, and the following getters : position, duration, isPlaying and reversed.
The main loop function is inlined now too.
Original post is here
You can also see this post about sharing code between different plateforms (FEffects do that )
By Michal Romecki,
sunday 2 november 2008 at 11:40 ::haXe
Some monthes ago, I released 2 articles for The Flash&Flex Developper's magazine.
Since haXe 2.0, some changes occured, so here comes new versions of the FDock application described in the first number and XiLib example for the 2nd.
By Michal Romecki,
monday 25 august 2008 at 21:33 ::haXe
When I used to work with the Flash IDE, it was easy to test a piece of actionscript code, in an empty flash project. It was build somewhere in a temporary folder, and I never cared about that.
Since I don't use the the Flash IDE anymore, and in order to do quickly a test, I have to open my favourite editor, create a project, create the folders, files...A boring work...
And at the end what you get is an "experiments" folder, where there is a million of subfolders begining by "test"...
I've written something to deploy quickly a haXe project. It's nothing exciting but it can help.
By Michal Romecki,
monday 18 august 2008 at 14:04 ::haXe
Here is a light slide show flash movie, written in haXe of course and targeting Flash Player 9.
I haven't any good picture to display, so I asked some friends of mine, to give me some of their lost pixels. Thanks guys
Click on the picture you like, to see the author's blog.
By Michal Romecki,
friday 8 august 2008 at 11:00 ::haXe
You can't sleep since hScript is released ?! You want write hScript everywhere and even your last greeting card was written in hScript?!
Nothing special here...
I've tried to write some hScript directly inside a <script> tag in the HTML document, as we can use javascript or vbscript and else ...
Take a look at that, it's just funny
By Michal Romecki,
wednesday 23 july 2008 at 13:31 ::haXe
Some days ago, Nicolas Cannasse has released a new library called hScript, for haXe.
This lib enables you to "interpret some code dynamically".
hScript is really powerful, you can try it with this little hScript Interpreter.
By Michal Romecki,
wednesday 28 may 2008 at 16:33 ::haXe
Here comes a sample of an universal loader that can load flash movies from version 6 to flash 9 or higher.
In fact, the problem is not really the version number of the flash movie but of the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) used. Flash applications using ActionScript 1/2 (flash <=8) work with AVM1 and these using ActionScript 3 (flash 9-10) work with AVM2, and both are not compatible.
AVM2 have instances of AVM1 and you can load flash<=8 applications into a flash 9 or flash10 but you cannot load flash 9 or 10 into flash <=8 movies... I don't know if it's really clear...
Anyway, it's a flash 6 universal loader with progress event and flashvars, that can load and execute flash 9 or 10 applications:
By Michal Romecki,
tuesday 13 may 2008 at 14:33 ::haXe
I'm proud, to present the cover of the next Flash&Flex Developer's magazine !
As you can see, the haXe article's, that you can see the subject here, is on the cover !
I'm writing another article about XiLib for haXe...comming soon
Note : you can suscribe the FFD newsletter here
By Michal Romecki,
thursday 8 may 2008 at 12:37 ::haXe
XiLib is a package of 2 classes, that can help in building modular Flash applications.
It facilites application's maintenance : There is no need to re-build the whole project to fix a specific bug, to upgrade an existing part or add a new part to an existing application.
Xilib works with haXe Flash9 and gives help in loading and using ressources from external SWF libraries (as run-time downloaded classes, media assets, components, plugins or listeners*).
Let's see how does it work
By Michal Romecki,
tuesday 6 may 2008 at 13:19 ::haXe
*Updated*
In March, I had a proposition to write an article on haXe for a magazine called "Flash&Flex Developer's Magazine". It is a quarterly publication distributed in English language in the USA.
It was much work for me, because haXe is a vast subject and it was very difficult to choice what talking about !
Finally, I've written a desktop application, and then I decided to tittle the article :"Flash Desktop applications using haXe & SWHX"
The application is an Icon-Dock (a la Object-Dock, YZDock...) entirelly build with haXe.
Since I can't publish the article (13 pages effective of pure eye's pleasure ) on my blog, until the magazine is in stores, here is the source code of the dock called "FDock"...of course ScreenShot of FDock (on top)
By Michal Romecki,
friday 18 april 2008 at 01:00 ::haXe
You can find many frameworks or libraries, plateform dependant, that help you writing your applications. You can, for exemple, find UI components, motion tweens libraries for flash (like caurinaTweener) and for JavaScript (like JavaScript Motion Tween). Each plateform is different and each library has its own API, that you have to learn and sometimes it's the best way to give you reason for hanging .
Of course you can write your own libraries that use the same API for the different plateforms you target, but as everyone should know, coders are lazy.
haXe targets Flash and JavaScript, and thanks to the conditional compilation, you can easily build libraries having the same API and behaviour on different plateforms and sharing same, common source code.
Here comes an little example of a Button component having the same appearence and behaviour on Flash9 and JavaScript. 70% of the source code is common for both plateforms... Less time spent on building and debugging our library. It's a great news since time is money, and we don't want to loose money, right?
By Michal Romecki,
saturday 12 april 2008 at 17:35 ::haXe
This is a little package that I wanted to create including some tweens, sine loops effects (will come soon) and others effects that change values in time.
For now, a Tween class and easing equations (ported to haXe), are available for flash8, Flash9 and JavaScript.
Here is a sample : Chips :
By Michal Romecki,
friday 14 march 2008 at 19:17 ::Main
Professional haXe and Neko written by Franco Ponticelli and Lee McColl-Sylvester
620 pages of eyes' pleasure ! The title sounds like serial killers : Professional haXe and Neko
I've received my copy about 3 weeks ago now, I'm really happy, because I was waiting for it for more than one year !
It's the first book about this wonderful tool that haXe is.
Because of all the things that you can do with haXe, I think the book was not really easy too write, but it covers all essential, and more !
It's really easy to read, I use it like an encyclopedia, when I want to know something specific, but quickly my eye follow the lines, going to next chapter
Really good job , thanks fly to Franco Ponticelli, Lee McColl-Sylvester and Nicolas Canasse.
The book is available at http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0470122137?tag=designrealm-21 and http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470122137?tag=buildlabcom-20 Bruno has his own copy of "Professional haXe and Neko" too .
By Michal Romecki,
sunday 13 january 2008 at 14:45 ::Main
Here come some picture of Bruno's new home.
As you can see, It's a 2-sides Villa with a complete fun/sport room (best for parties), and a calm side with kitchen, bedroom and workspace where Bruno can code some HaXe applications of course .
By Michal Romecki,
thursday 20 december 2007 at 22:03 ::haXe
This post is an extension of this one talking about flex in haxe without external loading.
When you want to use a SWF made with the Adobe Flash 9 or with the free mxmlc compiler, you have several ways in haXe.
The easy one is to load this SWF as external data. And then working with the .hx header classes generated from the AS3 project.
But if we want have only one SWF output file, we have to "merge" the 2 projects.
Here come a weired way to do that but it's the only one I've found
By Michal Romecki,
thursday 16 august 2007 at 22:37 ::haXe
AIRLogger is a useful standalone tracer (like LuminicTracer - Flash Inspector i.e.) targeting SWF and running on the Adobe Integrated Runtime.
The console is written by Cedric Nehemie (aka Abe -an abstract friend of mine ).
Here you can find the HaXe API for it.
By Michal Romecki,
wednesday 15 august 2007 at 14:15 ::haXe
HaXessibility & Flexibility !
We can work with Flex components in HaXe using an external loading as we can see in HaXe website tutorial: http://haxe.org/tutos/flex_and_haxe_intro
The post following is a first attempt to use Flex components in HaXe without external loading. (Merging SWF at compilation).
By Michal Romecki,
saturday 11 august 2007 at 13:40 ::Tuto
This post is a complement to an old post Mon premier SWF9 gratos avec Flex SDK (in french).
When using MXML, a lot of initializations are made in background (Application, UIComponent ...)
This post is a sample AS3 code without any MXML that enables you using Flex Component in pure AS3, initializing manually Flex Application.
By Michal Romecki,
thursday 9 august 2007 at 21:01 ::Utils
For users of the usefull tracer by Pablo Costantini, Luminic Tracer Flash Inspector 0.25 (or 0.30), I've rewrited the class for haXe, to use with SWF of course
It's an update from an old post.
Some bug fixed, light documentation added, and HaXe 1.14 compatible ! (new AS3 bytecode generation)
By Michal Romecki,
tuesday 7 august 2007 at 19:02 ::haXe
HaXe standard library, contains remoting package (haxe.remoting) to communicate between different plateforms (Server/JS/Flash). LocalConnection is a way to communicate from SWF to another SWF.
HaXe includes a powerful remoting layer for the native Flash LocalConnection that is really easy to use !
By Michal Romecki,
saturday 28 july 2007 at 19:09 ::haXe
In order to access Adobe Flex or Adobe AIR APIs from HaXe, you need the externs classes.
These classes contain variables and methods signatures and ensure compile-time type checking (and completion...). They won't be compiled inside the SWF.
Then, you have to provide the used classes inside an extern SWF library (Flex components built inside SWF Library for example), or execute the application in the right flash player (AIR runtime for example).
If you attempt to use an object (class, function ...) that is not in the SWF library or is not native in the target flash player (AIR flash.filesystem API inside browser flash player), you'll get run-time exceptions.
You can download the ZIP that contains all the classes found in the Flex 3 SDK (excluding some standard libraries that are in the haxe std directory) here.
By Michal Romecki,
sunday 13 may 2007 at 21:30 ::haXe
Version : Alpha 9
Release date : 2007.06.02
I started writing a set of skinnable components for haXe targetting flash8 and flash9.
I'll stop that once AsWing will be ported to haXe.
By Michal Romecki,
friday 6 april 2007 at 20:30 ::Main
Voilà Bruno, mon hamster. Donc c'est un Roborowski, un modèle nocturne, petit et à consonance Polak, comme moi
Mais son histoire est peu banale ( ça sonne comme un reportage de TF1 là quand tout à coup !!! ). Bref, voilà ...
By Michal Romecki,
thursday 29 march 2007 at 20:54 ::haXe
I will try to explain quickly, what's going on :
Your favourite IDE often provides you auto completion depending on the language you're writing your code. To do that, the plug-in reproduce a part of the compiler job ; it's a kind of parser, so it can suggest you what the compiler is waiting for in the next chars you'll write ( often after a "." or a "(" ).
By Michal Romecki,
sunday 25 march 2007 at 20:14 ::haXe
Pour ceux qui pensent que HaXe est encore une nouvelle babiole gravitant autour du monde de Flash, je vais essayer de presenter brievement ce langage du futur !
, voici un bon résumé des sociopathes du 21ème siècle...ceux-là mêmes qui détestent l'ordinateur mais qui en font un usage plus qu'intéressant.
Some monthes ago, I released 2 articles for The Flash&Flex Developper's magazine.
