[Sussex] Flash development

[Paul Turner]

James Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Righto, here goes. I'm an experienced coder, but I've never done any
> flash, so I'm only just starting out and trying to work out what I can
> do and what I need in order to do it. Bear with me :)
>
> 1) I need to create a "graph viewer" which can display a set of data
> which is fetched via an HTTP request from a web server. Can you do
> HTTP requests for such remote data within the Flash file?
>
> 2) Does Flash have the sort of capabilities I need to do a bit of
> analysis on this data (just some simple maths and array manipulation
> really)? This would be very useful as it would reduce load on the
> server, which wouldn't have to do the actual data analysis.
>
> 3) Are there open source compilers/tools, and if so, what would you
> recommend? Ideally I don't want to shell out for the Adobe Flash dev
> environment thing if I don't need to.
>
> 4) This is my main problem really - are there any basic introductions
> to developing Flash which anyone can recommend? I've looked around,
> but not managed to find anything which makes it particularly easy to
> get into... otherwise, are there any books you'd recommend?
>
> cheers,
> James

I've only looked at the demo's and the tutorial, but Open Laszlo looks 
interesting for creating flash applications (as well as other run times).
See:  http://www.openlaszlo.org/

There's also open source flash information at: http://osflash.org/.

These are in my list of things to look at if/when I find the time.  I'd 
be interested to hear of other resources if you find anything useful.

Regards Paul.

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