Archive for SWFAddress
December 20, 2007 at 7:36 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Flash, Open Source Flash, PHP, Portfolio, SWFAddress
Project:
p.i.n.k. Spirits website
URL:
http://www.pinkspirits.com
Synopsis:
This high-profile consumer site was built for p.i.n.k. Spirits -- a new premium liquor company which creates various liquors infused with caffeine and guarana. The best way to describe their product is your favorite liquor and RedBull, without the RedBull taste, calories, or color. The first product to launch is vodka, with gin, tequila, rum, whisky, sake and others to follow in 2008/2009.
Why it is cool (to a Flash developer):
- The site makes great use of a couple of open source tools: SWFAddress 2.0 and SWX.
- The site was almost 5 months in design and development.
- SWX is used extensively throughout the site to communicate with the back-end content database. Once again this made the creation of the CMS go much faster and communication between the site and CMS much smoother. SWX is also used for e-mail list sign-up, and I have released this service open source as part of the SWX contest.
- An extensive listing of drink recipes, events, and venues can be found on the site.
- A custom retail store and bar/restaurant locator was developed for the site, providing users with the distance from their ZIP code to the local places they can find pink's products. I may release this as a SWX service in the future.
- I contracted with The Bailey Group of Philadelphia, PA on this project, whose talented designers concepted the site and team was great to work with.
- A huge thanks goes out to Jason McCoskery, who again was a great partner in development and whose overall development knowledge in both PHP and ActionScript is always enjoyable to work with.
November 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Open Source Flash, SWFAddress
The long awaited update to SWFAddress has been released and is ready for download. Rostislav has been posting update notes listing new features, such as the new SEO abilities, all week leading up to the release.
New features include:
- Support for multiple Flash movies in the same HTML page and Ajax.
- Event listeners for ActionScript and JavaScript.
- New SWFAddressEvent class with support for INIT and CHANGE types.
- New unobtrusive SEO technique.
- Support for Adobe Flash CS3.
- Support for Flash Player 7 with the Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit.
- Support for SWFObject 2.0, UFO and Adobe's Active Content embedding.
- New strict mode that adds trailing slashes by default.
- New helper methods for link, window and popup management.
- Ability to configure the script with query parameters.
- The swfaddress.html is optional and not used by default.
- Lots of new and improved Flash based samples.
- Various optimizations and fixes.
- API docs for ActionScript 3 and JavaScript.
Rostislav has been hard at work on this project for quite some time, and the improvements include those which were the most requested by developers. I'm also happy to have been a part of this release by helping with the documentation and an AS3/Flash CS3 sample.
I should also note that rumor has it there may be some t-shirts available to those who donate to the project and help fund future development!
November 2, 2007 at 10:47 am · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Open Source Flash, SWFAddress
Rostislav has announced on his blog that SWFAddress v2.0 will be released on November 16th. This update includes lots of additional features and is compatible with Safari 3. Rostislav has put a lot of effort into this release, and you'll want to make sure you check it out.
August 26, 2007 at 2:53 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, SWFAddress
This past week Adobe released an update to Flash Player 9, dubbed "Moviestar". As of build 9.0.60.184 there are issues with ExternalInterface causing SWFAddress not to function correctly in AS2 projects. The release notes on Adobe Labs says that ExternalInterface has been improved, and after some tests it has been determined this is the source of SWFAddress failing silently.
So, just to be clear, the bug only affects ActionScript 2 (AVM1) websites and applications - those written in ActionScript 3 (which uses AVM2), such as Flex applications, are immune to this bug.
This was first brought to my attention through a blog post on the issue, and Rostislav was quick to research the issue and post his findings. He also submitted a bug on Adobe's website so they would be aware of the issue. I suggest if you are also experiencing problems that you submit the bug as well, as the more reports Adobe receives about a bug the faster it will get solved.
If you have any further questions, the Sourceforge email list or forums is a great resource. I also suggest reading Rostislav's blog post for more detailed information.
August 26, 2007 at 2:32 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, Open Source Flash, SWFAddress, Web Apps
About a month ago I got an email from Rostislav Hristov, the main developer for SWFAddress, taking me up on my offer to help him with the project. I have blogged about SWFAddress a few times and was a very early adopter when I used it to enable deep linking on the XPLANE corporate website. I had run into some bugs which I reported to Rostislav and he fixed in a very timely manner. Since then I have used SWFAddress in just about every project I have developed.
While to date I have only put together a couple of ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3 examples of how to use SWFAddress, I look forward to helping out the open source project more in the future and continuing to blog about the project as it progresses.
On that note, keep an eye out for a new version that includes functionality updates and additions, including better SEO support.
More info about SWFAddress can be found on Rostislav's blog, the SWFAddress website, and Sourceforge. I highly suggest you subscribe to the mailing list to be the first to hear about updates and new releases.
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