[Flashcoders] command-line AS3 execution?

2008-09-22 Thread Alan
Hi all, I'm developing a keyframe-based animation app in AS3 similar to After Effects and I want the user to be able to render their final movies as a quicktime to my server. I started writing a perl script that reads in the movie's xml file, composites the layer images using imagemagick

Re: [Flashcoders] command-line AS3 execution?

2008-09-22 Thread Glen Pike
Flash uses the mxml compiler which is part of the Flex SDK. As long as you are not importing classes specific to the IDE, then you can run the compiler on the command line. Download the free Flex SDK from Adobe and see if you can compile your classes - look at Flash Develop for something

Re: [Flashcoders] command-line AS3 execution?

2008-09-22 Thread Alan
Hi Glen, Thanks for the response but I'm not looking for command-line compiling, but the actual execution of AS3 code from the command- line. My animation app uploads the user's creation as an xml file with all the keyframes and layer information. For browser playback, the app reads the

Re: [Flashcoders] command-line AS3 execution?

2008-09-22 Thread Ian Thomas
The only alternative I can think of is to port your code to haXe, which is very similar to AS3. You can compile haXe code to AS3 (or directly to a .swf) and use that for the client side. For server side, you can compile haXe to run on Neko and write to files etc. In short - obviously depending