Alexander Funke @ Jun 03 2010 6:22 pm
We are happy to announce that we have implemented a wrapper for Joa Eberts Apparat.
The following tasks are supported:
- bigsource.apparat.reducer: Apparat Reducer
- bigsource.apparat.tdsi: Apparat Turbo Diesel Sport Injection
- bigsource.apparat.coverage: Apparat Coverage
- bigsource.apparat.concrete: Apparat Concrete
- bigsource.apparat.stripper: Apparat Stripper
To start optimizing your swfs you have to download some things:
Apparat: http://code.google.com/p/apparat/
Scala: http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads
(Please check the Apparat website for infos about the needed version. Currently Scala RC3)
BigSource Zarkov: http://zarkov.bigsource.de
(Eclipse Updatesite: http://update.bigsource.de/beta)
After unpacking Apparat and Scala and installing the new version of Zarkov you can create the tasks.
Example
See content of build.properties in previous post.
<project name="Example 1" default="tdsi" basedir=".">
<property file="build.properties" />
<target name="tdsi">
<bigsource.apparat.tdsi basedir="${basedir}" apparatdirectory="PATH TO APPARAT DIRECTORY" scala="PATH TO SCALA EXECUTABLE">
<inputfile path="${swf.application.target }" />
<outputfile path="${swf.application.target }" />
<set7zpath path="PATH TO 7zip IF NOT IN $PATH" />
</bigsource.apparat.tdsi>
</target>
<target name="reducer">
<bigsource.apparat.reducer basedir="${basedir}" apparatdirectory="PATH TO APPARAT DIRECTORY" scala="PATH TO SCALA EXECUTABLE">
<inputfile path="${swf.application.target }" />
<outputfile path="${swf.application.target }" />
<set7zpath path="PATH TO 7zip IF NOT IN $PATH" />
</bigsource.apparat.reducer>
</target>
</project>
As you can see, the new features are currently only available from the beta update. Your feedback would help to make BigSource Zarkov even better. Feel free to contact us.
Thanks to Joa for his great tool!!
Alexander Funke @ May 24 2010 5:55 pm
Today we released a new version of the BigSource Zarkov Eclipse Plugin. There are some major changes that had to be done in order to simplify the exchange of projects and to have as less as possible external configurations.
So here are the major changes:
No Preference Pane in Eclipse Settings
we have removed the Pane from the settings. The flex SDK has to be set within the Build.xml. Every Bigsource Task has the attribute “sdk”.
Example 1 with property file
build.properties
flex.home = /workspace/flashlibs/flex_sdk_3.3
swf.application.class = source/src/com/company/project/Application.as
swf.application.target = deploy/swf/application.swf
swf.default.fps = 31
swf.default.width = 800
swf.default.height = 600
swf.default.bgcolor = 0x000000
build.xml
<project name="Example 1" default="compile" basedir=".">
<property file="build.properties" />
<target name="compile">
<bigsource.mxmlc basedir="${basedir}" sdk="${flex.home}">
<default_frame_rate value="${swf.default.fps}" />
<default_background_color value="${swf.default.bgcolor}" />
<default_size width="${swf.default.width}" height="${swf.default.height}" />
<source_path path="source/src" />
<file_specs path="${swf.application.class}" />
<output path="${swf.application.target}" />
</bigsource.mxmlc>
</target>
</project>
Example 2 with property in build.xml
build.xml
<project name="Example 2" default="compile" basedir=".">
<property name="flex.home" value="/workspace/flashlibs/flex_sdk_3.3"/>
<target name="compile">
<bigsource.mxmlc basedir="${basedir}" sdk="${flex.home}">
<default_frame_rate value="31" />
<default_background_color value="0x000000" />
<default_size width="800" height="600" />
<source_path path="source/src" />
<file_specs path="source/src/com/company/project/Application.as" />
<output path="deploy/swf/application.swf" />
</bigsource.mxmlc>
</target>
</project>
The same applies to bigsource.flashplayer (attribute “player”), bigsource.browser (attribute “browser”), bigsource.haxe (attribute “haxe”) and bigsource.mtasc (attribute “mtasc”) with different attributes than “sdk”.
General Bugfixes
- corrected path for adt_package under Windows
- added airtarget to adt_package (target as compiler option) for packaging dmg, exe and deb files
- added more precheckings
If you have questions or feature request, feel free to contact us.
Alexander Funke @ Mar 12 2010 4:23 pm
After checking out the new abilities of the Air 2 beta 2 Runtime, I decided to port the BigSource Zarkov Plugin to an Air Standalone application. I had to adopt the Ant Runtime, to ensure that your current build files will also work in the Air version. Because Ant has many tasks, I just adopted the base tasks of Zarkov in the first release. In future releases more tasks like “exec”, “echo”, “zip”, “copy”, etc. will be added. Fcsh support for the exec tasks (mxmlc or compc as executable) will also be added in future releases.
The first beta Version is avalibale for download. Feel free to test it.
- Windows
- OS X
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)
BigSource Zarkov for Air
In order to run the application, you must have installed Adobe Air 2 beta 2 (Download). If you find bugs or have a feature request, please send an email to alexander.funke@bigsource.de. The application is currently released as Jobware. No warranty for malfunctions. I am happy about every feedback.
Kim Christiansen @ Sep 04 2009 12:53 pm
Kim Christiansen @ May 04 2009 11:46 am
We went to the FFK09 Flash Forum Konferenz to Cologne. We had a great time with some friends and interesting speakers. Here are some impressions of the FFK09.
Thanks to Marc Thiele and Sascha Wolter for the awesome conference. See you next year.
Homepage FFK09.
Impressions from Marc Thiele.
Impressions from Powerflasher.
Alexander Funke @ Apr 07 2009 2:44 pm
Yesterday we presented our compiler wrapper PlugIn for Eclipse at the Flex User Group Hamburg in the rooms of pilot 1/0. We got a really good feedback for our product. So this was a great way to get whishes and to fill our FAQ. In the next time we will add some new stuff to our documentation and we are currently working on a rewritten version of Bigsource Zarkov with a lot more support creating compiler taks. Thanks to all who came , to the organisation team of the FlexUGHH and to pilot 1/0 for allocating their rooms. It was a great evening. The presentation and the sample project will come soon.
Alexander Funke @ Jan 05 2009 4:54 pm
We are celebrating our first company birthday. Time is running. The last year went so fast, but so great too. We had many interesting projects, met a lot of great and interesting people and mastered many challenges. Thanks to everyone who supported us in the last year. We are looking forward for a great second year.
The photo is under the creative commons license. Copyrights by Theresa Thompson.
Alexander Funke @ Nov 13 2008 3:23 pm
Currently we are working on a multitouch table based on touchlib. We are using a DI setup with infrared LEDs from the rear, an High Definition projector over a mirror, a webcam without IR filter, a glass projectionarea with Lee ND Frost Foil and a Dell Vostro PC. Here are some impressions:
Thanks to Jens Franke for writing a great article about building a multitouch table and for answering our questions.
A complete list of used hardware and a building plan for download will follow in the next post.
Alexander Funke @ Nov 05 2008 9:37 am
Today we released the new version of the Zarkov Eclipse Plugin. There are many improvements we have done. Here are the major ones:
- Review of all compiler options.
- Some options have changed attributes.
- Added all options listed by “compiler help list advanced” to mxmlc, compc, asdoc, amxmlc, acompc and aasdoc.
- Warnings and Errors are now added to the Problems view of Eclipse.
- a new task “bigsource.browser” added. You can now open your browser from within eclipse.
- some general improvements in stability
- documentaiton will be improved in the next days (mxmlc is already updated)
You can get the new version over the Eclipse Update feature. If you would like to get the latest beta version you can get it here: http://update.bigsource.de/beta.
For more information about BigSource Zarkov visit the project page at http://zarkov.bigsource.de.
We are happy about every feedback.
Kim Christiansen @ Oct 16 2008 8:43 am
Some people have problems running older Flash files on the new Flash Player 10. To downgrade the plug-in to an older version, you first have to uninstall the current plug-in:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157
Older Flash Player versions are available here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1
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