flcodr.com – a Flash of genius?
by leon on April 10, 2008
Inspired my Lee Brimelow’s Snippet extension Panel for Flash I am setting up a new code repository for Flash Developers. If you don’t know what Snippet’s is, its an extension for Flash that displays a list of code snippets that allows you to easily add code to your projects. The snippets are held in an XML file which makes the app dynamic and updateable. (I recently created my own hard coded version of a Code Helper, which dynamically produced scripts for various custom functions based on an input into a text field).
The fact that Snippets runs from an XML file means that new code can constantly be added. Lee does this by placing the relevant code on his blog. This got me thinking. Why not have the XML file located on a server, rather than on the client machine. Infact why not extend the extension so that the user could enter a few keywords into a seach field and get code snippets that match the criteria, right within Flash. You wouldn’t even need to open up your browser.
So after a few hours of hard thinking I came up with the idea of having an online repository (that is generated by users and fellow developers) that is linked to a Snippet’s style app within Flash. There would be an option to select between AS2 and AS3 code aswell as search functions.
I believe that this could be a really huge project with great opportunities.
For now though it’s just an idea. I need to get my Flash, PHP and MySQL hats on, but in the meantime this is a road map of the developments I wish to make. This will be an open source project so anybody can contribute in what ever way they can.
Stage 1 : Website Design
Stage 2 : Website Development
Stage 3: Flash Extension Development (inc Beta testing)
Stage 4: Product Launch
Stage 5 : On-going development and improvements
There are other similar projects running for other languages but as far as I am aware there are no others that integrate into Flash as perfectly as this will. The user will have the power to find and contribute to the snippet library.
As for a name, get ready to bookmark www.flcodr.com some time in the not too distant future
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