Robotlegs + Flight + Union Platform

So, I was distracted from finishing my FDT theme generator by a discussion on the Robotlegs mailing list suggesting the possibility of merging Robotlegs with Flight. It sounded like an interesting challenge, so the above chat room is my initial attempt at it. Go ahead and click the “Connect” button to try it out!

The full source code is here:
http://github.com/johnlindquist/flight-demos/tree/master/FlightAndRobotLegsUnion/ (if you’re not familiar with git, there’s a download button on that page which will download all the source. It’s an FDT project, so you’ll have to fiddle with it a bit to get it set up in whatever environment you’re using)

I’m considering making a beast of a tutorial (probably around a half hour) explaining how this all links together, but I have to finish my FDT Theme generator first!

Huge thanks to the Union Platform for providing the test chat service that doesn’t require an API key!

Back in the saddle

I took off the last couple weeks to be with my wife and new baby (caution: cuteness overload below):

I should finish up my theminator project in the next couple days.

Eclipse Theme Designer Preview

I received tons of questions asking about my color scheme in my RobotLegs video and I realized what a pain it is to customize your colors within Eclipse.

So, here’s a little preview of the Eclipse Theme Designer (code-named “Theminator”) that I’m working on. I should have FDT support for AS3 ready sometime next week and then I’ll start working on MXML, FlexBuilder, etc. Once I have something testable, I’ll post it up here and ask for feedback.

RobotLegs Hello World Video Tutorial

Hey everyone. Long time, no see. I’ve just been super busy leading a team of flash guys on a big project which has left very little time for experiments and playing with code. Anyway, hopefully I’ll get back into my routine and get a few posts out a week again.

This post comes courtesy of Joel Hooks offering a free t-shirt to anyone who made a RobotLegs Screencast. I’m a sucker for geek apparel, so here’s what I made:

Watch the RobotLegs Hello World Video Tutorial

Click to view the video in a pop-up. Right-click and “save as” to download the video to your hard drive.

For more info on RobotLegs, check out www.robotlegs.org and join the google group.

Also, the IDE I’m using in this demo is FDT. If this demo doesn’t convince you to check out FDT, I don’t know what will