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Flashpress, my made-from-scratch blog editor, is in it’s 0.2 beta version. With tweaks and bug fixes, it is becoming more and more stable. It has the potential for a lot of uses, the source could be adapted into such things as a spell check, a word processor, a person-to-person chat, or an all out HTML editor. It now supports basic images, along with mild bug fixes to solve formatting problems.Test/Use/Download
The new version of the slim player is up and about, with the same external variables ability as it’s big brother. The new big thing here though is another innovation from my blossoming flash years and my jukebox, id3 tag support. id3 tags were not usable in the extended version because of the displaying of all artists and titles in the playlist. However, with id3 tags, no artist or title is needed. Information is stored is 98% of alll mp3′s, including artist and song titles. The tags show automatically when there is no titles present, or use the variable “&useId3=1″ to have them always show. As well as that, there have been the usual visual updates, and more updates to the loading script to timeout after five seconds.This is also the release of the Extended 4.1 version with a few bug fixes.Get ‘em.
This is my first flash component, and i think i pulled it off rather well. This is a wrapper for an itunes library or playlist file, to be used in any flash project involving the file (god knows how many I have), such as music players or data organizers. To use, just install, insert into your timeline, and use the function “loadXML(url);” to load and parse the file. Data is output into the “ItunesArray” array, and contains everything that could possibly be needed for use: TrackId/Name/Artist/Composer/Album/Genre/Kind/Size/Time/DiscNumber/Dis cCount/TrackNumber/TrackCount/Year/DateModified/DateAdded/BitRate/Samp leRate/Comments/PlayCount/PlayDate/Compilation/TrackType/Location.
PS – The iTunes XML can be a relatively large file, so parsing could take longer than expected. Be Patient
i’ve officially hit 16, but along with that, the new version of the xspf player has been released. the biggest change? the ability to keep all of your variables in one small file. i’ve included a sample file, just use the tag “loadurl=” and load your variables.txt to a server (any file name will work) and viola! instead of paragraph long lines of variables, one short line. just make sure to include the line “&loaded=1″ as the last variable. i’ve also added the ability to change the loaded message, and updated the display. the theme has a little more depth than just gray, but it is just being tested right now. the descision to keep or trash it will be based on the feedback i get. a little while from now, the same changes will be made to the slim player. also, a request box will be added to my project pages for wanted features sometime in the future. enjoy.
Sorry about the lack of updates, a lot has been going on. First of all, I purchased a new intel mac, so i’ve been learning the background to Cocoa and Carbon, the two most prominent languages in Mac OSX. Secondly, I was hired by Iacmusic.com to customize an xspf player and accompanying php tracking script for use on their website. That has been finished and is running. Next on their list and already in the works is an xml photo slideshow, a little bit like Viewr.
Apparently, Viewr has not been working properly, the tag search was not working. This has been fixed and uploaded, see it here.
This post marks the birthing of my text editor/WordPress blog editor (it also works somewhat with other blogs). This blog has been created with it, and I will continue to use it for the majority of my posts. The reason I began to create it was that my MySQL server began acting up and would take half an hour just to log in. Using the xml-rpc format, I was able to bypass everything, so that there is no login time, and posting takes a few seconds. No page refreshes means no waiting.
This is created entirely from scratch. although the macromedia components came in handy. The text editor is based off of an open-source flash, obedit. I had to create a method to parse the html output from an html text box into standard Xhtml. After logging in, you are able to edit or delete an existing post, or create a new one. A quick editor allows for changing text in a post without delay, or the true text editor allows for formating.
Some bugs: The Html format adds a new div for every line, unneccessary, but not noticable in the final product; Loading posts to edit loads the html, not just the text. I will create a parse method for this soon. I will also create a “cookie” to save username/password. This will be updated, but only to fix the glitches. I am also thinking of adding a spell-check like that of obedit. lacymorrow.com/flashpress/
The slim version of the xspf player is finally out, with color, seek and time support. coming soon is shuffle, auto-update, and more bug fixes. also, the normal player has a few bug fixes with version 3.7.view them both: lacymorrow.com/jukebox/
Viewr has it’s own page now at http://blog.lacymorrow.com/projects/viewr/. If you didn’t know, viewr is a flash slideshow viewer that collects photos from flickr.com It is customizable to browse tags, users, or photosets. The best part? It is entirely made of code, so it is less than 4kb.