Woohoooo, it’s finally done!!! I finally got my Thumb Grid Flash component out on the site for sale. I’m really excited about this component as it is the first one I’ve released in almost a year. The component is really useful and I hope to have lots more examples posted in the next few days/weeks. I’m even planning on putting together a video tutorial oh how to use the component.
I think the coolest part is that it works really well with SlideshowPro (http://www.slideshowpro.net) and Soundslides (http://www.soundslides.com)
It’s really easy to implement and I hope to show that with my video tutorial.
The XML schema should be very familiar to most people. There are also over 30 component inspector parameters so you should really be able to tweak to your hearts content.
This is a component I really wish was included in the included component set, it is in flex 2.0, so I think it fills a definite need for a bunch of different apps.
November 4th, 2006
I’m here in Austin on my second day at the Flashforward conference in Austin, TX. The keynote speaker this morning is Kevin Lynch with a few guests that are showing off some different new goodies. The first bit of news from Kevin is that the Flash player 9 will be releasd for linux soon.
The first guest was Garrett Nantz from Big Spaceship. Garrett showed off the Nike Air website on a linux machine running the flash player 9 version. Very cool site with some great green screen effects.
Justin Everett Church and Mike Downy gave some great sneak peaks into the next version of flash. Justin gave a quick demo of the some particle effects using the bitmapdata object in flash 8 and flash 9. The difference in speed was unbelievable using bitmap data caching. I am definitely going to look into this further.
Justin and Mike, for the first time, showed “Blaze” the next version of flash which had some amazing time saving upgrades. Probably the coolest was the file importer that will allow you to import Photoshop files while maintaining layers and text fidelity with a bunch of different options. You can even setup your bitmap compression settings which will be using the new photoshop compression engine. During the question and answer session Mike eluded to the possibility that Illustrator files would also have similar importablity.
The other really cool addition will be to directly copy frame animations into actionscript! This will allow designers to to create animations and developers to take those directly into a robust flexible application.
September 12th, 2006