Well, after some weekend help from Val Liberty at Macromedia (thanks for saving me again!), I finally got my dial up access working. Woohoo!. So, I will have email access throughout the week.
I got a chance to see some of the area yesterday, taking a jog around Darling harbor. Unfortunately, I ended up crashing pretty early last night, as the jet lag was finally catching up with me.
Today I am working on my session for tomorrow, and for a short stint in the keynote. I will be heading out to the Macromedia offices to work. Tonight I will be at the National Australian user group meeting which should be very cool. I am not doing any presentations, but will be answering any questions that come up about Flash or Central. I am also looking forward to meeting a lot of people.
Well, after a 14 hour flight, I have finally made it to Sydney. I am currently hanging out at the hotel with Sean Corfield, waiting to be able to check into my room (it is 9am here, can’t check in until at least 12).
I am really excited about the mxdu conference this week. I have always been impressed by the strength of the Australian developer community, and it will be cool to finally get to meet a lot of them in person. I am staying at the Star City hotel and hope to get to hang out some.
I have built an OS X version of my FlashCommand command line compiler for Flash MX 2004. This uses the Flash MX 2004 extensibility layer to allow you to compile Flash files (FLA) from the command line.
It has a ton of options, and will also catch and redirect any ActionScript compile errors to stdout.
Update : I have moved the source and downloads to its own Google Code project which can be found here.
I am working on an OS X version of my FlashCommand command line compiler, and I ran into a problem of how to tell Flash to run a JSFL file from the command line. Gary Grossman came to the rescue with the answer.
You have to use AppleScript to tell Flash to load the file. Here is an example:
osascript -e 'tell application "Flash" to open alias "Mac OS X:tmp:myTestFile.jsfl"'
If you are calling this from a script that uses Unix file paths, then you can use the following command:
Well, after going through the 80+ submission, and then counting all of the votes for the 10 finalists, we finally have a winner for the Central Desktop Wallpaper contest.
Here they are:
In 3rd place, and the winner of a stylish Macromedia Central T-Shirt, we actually have a tie:
In a very close 2nd place, and the winner of a Central tube of goodies:
Community MX has just released an article about the structure of their CMXtra Central application. It discusses the architecture and who the files are structured, and goes into specific features such as using tooltips, the local file cache and and LCServer.
However, the coolest part of the article is that they have made all of the source code for their CMXtra application available. This is an excellent resource for looking through the code of a complete application and learning how all of the parts fit together.
We have picked 10 finalists from the 80+ submissions to the Central Desktop Wallpaper contest. Since the community made this all happen, we decided to let you help us judge the finalists and pick a winner.
Here are the finalists in no particular order:
Post your vote for the top submission (by it’s number) in the comments. The top vote getter from the community will be guaranteed at least a top 3 spot, and will have added weight with the final judges.
I have put together a step by step guide to getting the SE|PY ActionScript editor to run on OS X.
Make sure that you have python installed by running the following command in the terminal:
python
If you get an error that it cannot be found go to http://www.python.org and download the source. Follow the directions from the site to compile and install it.
Make sure to follow the directions in Mac/OSX/README. This is required if you want to create apps created with Python (including SE|PY).