Well, it seems that Mr. Aral Balkan doesn’t lose a minute, aside of all the OS ( open source ) Flash Proyects of OSFlash, hes been developing a great proyect SWX wish is a native data format for Flash. It uses SWF files to store and exchange data. It also implements an RPC gateway (currently in PHP), tools (a data analyzer/debugger and a service explorer), various APIs (Flickr, Twitter, etc.), and an ActionScript library that make creating data driven Flash and Flash Lite applications a piece of cake.
If you download and Install the SWX MAMP(Mac – Apache – MySQL – PHP) Bundle (on OS X) click here to download. It will be up an running in no time ( and it’s really like five minutes ). If you already have a development local server You can download the SWX files in zip format( from here ) and extract them on your localhost’s root folder.
Here’s a very neat tutorial that Aral put up on SWX Format site to help you out with the basic steps in how to get it running:
So don’t waste your time visit SWF Format download the SWX MAMP bundle. And start playing with your data.
Besides isn’t Datum ( The little mascot ) beautiful ? ; )
The SWX Native Data format for your Flash Projects by David Gamez, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Mexico License.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks so much for this lovely write-up of SWX! I hope you’re having fun with it
Thanks to you for sharing your wonderful work and you bet I’m having fun with it.
Hi Aral,
First of all thanks for such a creative tool that you provide all the flash community. I’m talking about SWX it is such a fantastic tool to get the work in minutes, I follow your examples at opensource flash. Aral I need some guidance or a kind of solution in SWX about the dynamic sorting. As we have here in jquery the link is http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/wp-content/uploads/file/jquerydragdrop/ . We can use MySQL with SWX to communicate back and forth with it. And what should be the solution for dynamic drag and drop in flash as I gave you the example above.
Thanks so much!
Hi thanks for your comments but actually I’m not Aral Balkan here’s his blog ( http://aralbalkan.com/ ) nevertheless I also think that he has provided lots of useful tools for the Flash community thanks for your comments.