Fin

The Flex Developer Derby Showcase has been updated to include quite a few more entries, including the Terra Captus demo and a streaming multimedia management console some friends of mine were working on. Unfortunately, the Adobe folks are taking a bit longer than expected to announce the results. I'm on pins and needles to see how it turns out. My favorite so far (aside from my own entry): the barcode scanner.

Unfortunately, Flash Player 8.5 is required to view a few of the entries, including the two mentioned above. Since the public release of Player 9 beta Adobe is no longer allowing 8.5 to be downloaded.

In light of this I am working on migrating the demo to FlexBuilder 2 beta 3 so that it will run on Player 9. In moving to beta 3 there were a few things that broke, but if you'd like to check it out you can see the work-in-progress version of the demo here:

http://www.bugg.it/terrac/TerraCaptus/main.html

In other news, I'm currently working on an application that will render XML content using Flex 2 components. The XML file is parsed and components created and added to a canvas on the fly. So far it is working well with the exception of the Image control, which doesn't seem to want to load the external image file. Ah, the delights of being a code monkey.

More later.