Hi guys! Just made an invite to the Flash Lite community to work on Flash for OLPC and am starting to get a trickle of volunteers.
I take it back about AS2 as a dead-end technology that should be abandoned. It's much easier to learn for newbie-coders & AJAX/DHTML devs since it's Javascript (AS3 syntax is more or less Java), and all the current phones that have Flash Lite still use AS2. Processing non-coder enthusiasts should have an easy time w/ AS2. Also, Gnash support is important and bleeding edge SWFs do not run on Gnash. Also, forwarding from Rob Savoye of Gnash. This is very important for Flash Dev on the XO, can you guys see about this and getting the Gnash packages on the latest OLPC builds updated? I'm not on the Gnash dev list since the 99% of the under-the-hood Gnash discussions are gibberish to me, so maybe John Gilmore can liaise. >From Rob: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Flash_Gamedev > > (sorry, needs to be updated. haven't touched it in a while. will try to > > update it this weekend) -Naz I see one thing I should point out on this page, Gnash 0.8.3 is ridiculously ancient, and should be avoided. Much of the problems of Gnash on the XO are because the packages on the XO are *years* out of date. :-( If you'd upgrade, most of the problems mentioned go away. This has been a continual problem with the XO and Gnash functionality. Seriously, 0.8.3 is so old, I wish it wasn't shipped at all as it just makes for a bad experience. So I have an rpm repository where I build weekly packages for the XO. Go to http://www.getgnash.org/packages/, (the XO packages are listed at the bottom) These have fully working sound, etc... much better AVM1/swf v9 support, better video performance, many compatibility bugs fixed, etc... I strongly recommend using a newer Gnash, it just works so much better... Just as a note, the Gnash team loves bug reports, we just prefer they're on a recent version... Bug reports can go here: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnash - rob - --- Finally, I just remembered: Flex Builder (the Flex AS3 IDE, aka Flash Builder) is free for non-profit educational use. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/free/index.html "We provide free copies of Adobe Flash Builder 4 Standard to: Students, faculty and staff of eligible educational institutions" There's a Linux beta of Flex Builder, not updated to the latest version, but good enough for a lot of stuff I think. Haven't tried it out since I'm not really a Flex Person, I use the Flash CS Pro IDE mostly for my projects. I'm asking if OLPC & the deployment teams as well as the kids are elegible for this. -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- Core Team Member Phlashers: Philippine Flash Actionscripters http://www.phlashers.com -- "if you don't like the way the world is running, then change it instead of just complaining." _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel