Its been a great companion, and i just love it. How can you not love a program that takes 'simple' as an argument?
For me its been the simplest, whether i compile with MTASC and inject the logic into a swf containing assets linked to as2 classes, or add assets into haXe made swfs compiled to as3.
Its a small and wonderful tool, that integrated well into my workflow, saving me not only time, but also from the jaws of proprietary software...
But for a while now, i've been toying around with the thought of making it even simpler using a frontend. The screenshoot below shows that thought transformed to working code, you can see the application editing the very same files that have been embedded when creating it.
The details of what it does, and does'nt yet, are already annotated in the screenshot, i'll just add a word or two about its prototyping process. It took only a couple of hours to generate this little app, some of which involved fixing stuff in the framework, which takes longer and requires compilation in haxe, layouting and simple events are done in xml and only require a browser refresh. Other than the haxegui package, there are 3 files involved. First one is a xml file for the layout and some simple events, second is a hx file that is compiled to a flash9 target, it has a single class and static main function, it initializes haxegui, loads the layout and works the logic, like parsing xml and setting up event listeners. The 3rd file is also a single class hx, it compiles to neko, and is a server for files and for swfmill input and output. The whole thing is run in two stages, first i run a local neko daemon, using 'nekotools server', then i navigate to the server address to land in a 'index.html' page which embeds the swf.
No paid software, knowledge or service has been used to write, run and bring you this, i would love to have your ideas and comments on this one, a working demo and the code should be released soon...
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