Robin and Server Connections

This blog entry is to demonstrate the use of the customized Flash class Robin. Robin is a class created by Dan Zen in order to facilitate client/server connections by the use of Flash applications.
I created a short video to better show the Robin in action:



I found the experience of working with this class very interesting, because with a little customizing a developer can create interactive applications to be shared across the web. also after only 3 months of learning Flash I was able to customize the avatars for this application, this means that interactive applications are available to almost anyone who want to experiment with them and create their own experience.


Thank you for watching and reading!

Diana

The robin class can be found here: http://robinflash.wordpress.com/
and other classes created by Dan Zen can be found here: http://flashfeathers.wordpress.com/

Video Motion Capture

Until three months ago, I had heard of Flash and used it briefly. But my general thoughts about it were around the idea that it was a technology used to create web pages intros, and this tendendcy is out of date and not longer popular. (At least according to me and my web browsing preferences).

After having been learning ActionScript for a few weeks, I am amazed of how powerful this language is and the amount of experiences than can be created with the use of Flash and AcionScript 3 (AS3).

AS3 reminds me a lot of Java, with event  and object oriented features, since my first exposure to Java I was fascinated with the concept of  classes, inheritance, and how this brings efficiency to the code. So although I never went deep into programming, I feel already familiarized with AS3.

This time my project was to customize a video motion capture class, the Ostrich class. The Ostrich class is part of a set of interfaces created by Dan Zen. (Read more about Dan Zen´s advanced interface classes for Flash).

The new interface was about a frog leaping form one place to another according to the movements registered by the video camera connected to the computer.

This is the initial state of the interface:

And after confirming the use of the video camera, we saw waht the camera was capturing in the back ground.

Although the whole functionality was already developed by the class creator, I spend time creating a new interface to implement this class, and even by doing that I learned how the classes worked and how to implemented in new elements.

My first post