I don't totally agree Hank. I just took a look, with great interest I might add, on this page and I'm impressed by this effort. They've made it clear this is early alpha too.
Check out this page and see for yourself: http://www.aflax.org/#demos Click on any of the examples and view the source! This are the steps: 1) Add a flash bootstrap 2) Code some Javascript 3) Voila your swf is done! Without using the IDE or anything else. HTH, /Johan On 12/6/05, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven, > > Your email suggests a bunch of concepts that are totally unclear to > me, eg javaflash, and there is no explanation of what your demo does, > and no link to anything running. > > FWIW if you want to demo something, the best way is a simple link to > the running thing or something that *shows* what your thing does. If > this is not possible because the thing you are doing is too low level > (like a sorting algorithm or something) then you should provide a > simple clear explanation of what it is that your thing does. All your > email provides is a complex description of some internals only > relevant to someone who is already familiar with your project, and a > description of some incredibly geeky installation instructions. > > Perhaps your goal was only to speak to a few people who you already > know or who already know your work, but in that case it doesnt seem > like using the general mailing list would be appropriate. > > In any case, I presume that you would like people to check out your > stuff, and if you do, a demo link and some clear description of what > it does and the benefits would be great. > > By the way I did also click on the javaflash wiki link where I also > couldnt find any example links, and I was unclear as to whether you > have just implemented a java container for the flash plugin, or you > are claiming to have re-implemented flash. You talk about supporting > all the features of flash 8 which isnt relevant if you have just > implemented a container since the feature set is defined by the flash > player. > > Regards > Hank > > > On 12/6/05, Steven Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have just made an interesting Aflax Javaflash integration demo. Thanks to > > the power of Rhino, I didn't do any extra work to enable this. :-) > > The demo is on the trunk in > > http://dctc.sjtu.edu.cn:81/svn/wonder/trunk/javaflash/src/java/sjtu/dctc/wonder/javaflash/demo/AflaxDemo.java > > > > Some modifications to Aflax are needed to in order to make it work in > > Javaflash: > > > > Firstly, the original Aflax library 0.33 uses 'callback' parameter in url to > > decide the callback but it does not work locally, so we sticked the callback > > to 'main'. This needs to modify aflax.as and we have provided a modified > > version of swf in > > http://dctc.sjtu.edu.cn:81/svn/wonder/trunk/javaflash/misc/Aflax-JF.swf > > and the diff of as in > > http://dctc.sjtu.edu.cn:81/svn/wonder/trunk/javaflash/misc/aflax.as.diff > > > > Secondly, you need to modify the callback name in examples to 'main' which > > in some cases was 'go'. > > > > Finally, you need to copy aflax.js into $JAVAFLASH_HOME/misc > > The main class needs one parameter for the location of your js file. For > > example, the example 'drawing2' of Aflax has a js file 'drawing2.js'. You > > need to copy the drawing2.js somewhere, modify it and set up the location of > > it to the parameter. > > > > You are done here. But that will be more. You can add Java calls to JS now. > > Enjoy! ;-) > > > > NOTICE: Examples that use extra js libs and HTML DOM methods are not > > supported in Javaflash and those examples may not work properly. If you want > > to run the video example, you need to copy the flv file to a location and > > modify the path in JS to be relative to the location of Aflax-JF.swf. > > > > -- > > Best Regards > > Steven Gong > > _______________________________________________ > > osflash mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
