flash

This was a personal project that I had been working on recently. I wanted to do a more flash centric theme redesign, but I still wanted to use Drupal for controlling my menus and automatically updating content categories. This of course required that I come up with a reliable way of populating a flash menu based on changes to Drupal's SQL database. After a little bit of trial and error I think I finally came up with a solution that works well enough to be considered stable.

I mentioned SWFAddress in the SEO BoF at DC DrupalCON 2009.

This allows you to build full Flash experience sites with support for deep-linking and browser history while still maintaining a full HTML version for screen readers, search engines, and other non-traditional browsers. If you are building Flash sites on top of Drupal, you will probably also want to check out the Services and AMFPHP modules.

Thanks for the opportunity to present at the LA Drupal Users Group meeting. This was an introductory talk on how some of the technologies Sun is working on are relevant to the Drupal community and how it is all open source. Technologies covered included:

OpenPackage Video 5.x-3.15 has been released.

The major new feature of this release is MP4 encoding with H.264 video and AAC audio. These codecs have much higher performance than than the old FLV and MP3. This means you can have the same quality for less bandwidth or higher quality for the same bandwidth.

Demo

MP4 encoding is supported both with FFmpeg transcoding on your own server and with the paid transcoding service we offer at openpackage.biz .

This functionality was sponsored by SharkScopers and vertikal.dk .

Hey everyone, I just made a video tutorial with code examples available at http://blip.tv/file/1399795 on how to get flash image data into Drupal.

Part two will demonstrate how to save a node with the image data associated with it. Feedback is of course welcomed as there may be some things people may have better ideas about how to approach.

Earlier this week I launched http://cs4party.com to promote the celebration our Los Angeles Adobe User Groups are holding for Adobe. I used Strata 3D, exported to H.264 video which I converted to FLV with Flash CS3, and made a SWF header to play and loop the FLV video. Zen was used entirely, so I have a cs4party sub-zen-theme that is literally my first public Zen theme, ever. FYI, the site is Drupal 6.

http://cs4party.com

Hello,

I've successfuly got flash as3 and Drupal talking, but I need to pass arguments to views.getview so that I can cut down on the amount of data transfered.

I'm using the following to connect, modified from the AMFPHP "hello world" example:


package {
import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.net.Responder;

import flash.net.URLRequest;

import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
import flash.events.Event;

public class ConnectToDrupal extends EventDispatcher{

    private var gateway:String = "http:// mywebsitename /drupal/services/amfphp";

Thomas Saunders and I are releasing our ActionScript 3 (Flash 9/CS 3/Flex 2) framework for interfacing with Drupal sites running the Services and AMFPHP modules.

Our framework handles some of the basic aspects of connecting a Flash application with a Drupal site, invoking service methods, and retrieving data.

To download the ActionScript class files or view the API documentation, please see our site at:
http://thirdavedesign.com/drupalsite

Please let us know if you find this useful, and if you have any questions or suggestions.

Hello fellow Adobe enthusiasts...

This is a cross-post of a forum topic that I recently added about a brand new media player that I built for Drupal CMS (http://drupal.org/node/295597)... Please forgive me for the cross-post, but I felt this topic has much relevance in this group. I basically created a Media Player that uses Services and the Views module to create and manage media playlists using Drupal CMS. I also created a project page at http://www.drupal.org/project/dashplayer, and here is the homepage for the player... http://www.tmtdigital.com/project/dash_player. This player works with most if not all media modules in Drupal, and is able to query your views using remoting technology to construct its playlists on the fly. There are many other features, but those are discussed in the forum topic.

The EmptyCrate Game Engine is a Drupal and Flash based game engine which allows for the creating of point and click adventure style games as a set of drupal modules and playing of those games via a Flash application, written fully in ActionScript.

The full project announcement is available at blog.emptycrate.com. A hosted game site where anyone is free to play with the engine and make their own games is available at game.emptycrate.com. Also, the first test of this engine was to create an entry to the 2008 Christian Developers Network speed game competition. The entry is avaible here, to demonstrate what is currently possible with the engine.