http://labs.qi-ideas.com Directly from the labs of Qi Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:06:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend of mine asked me if I knew a way to get google maps working within CS3. At the moment google made this flex only. If you've carefully read my previous articles you already know the drill. This is what you need to do to get it working within ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2008/06/19/using-google-maps-within-cs3/ Jesse Warden had a post about the new Gaia Beta framework created by his friend Steven Sacks. In his post he commented and talked about my library solution. Let's quote him: There are just certain audiences that totally agree with what your doing, and others who are like, “That’s too much ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2008/01/29/library-maker-001-for-as-30/ Why did I put effort in combining Flash and Flex generated swf’s? A major AS 3.0 obstacle for me is the fact that the flex RPC sources are not available. This means we can only use rpc.swc supplied within the Flex framework or use a third party library. Another big thing ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/12/25/using-flex-compiled-code-within-flash/ I was looking for a 'simple' C preprocessor for actionscript. The best thing out there which is out of the box compatible with actionscript is "EnLarge" from Asual. But even EnLarge is to complicated for me! I don't want to make an ant build for every little thing I do. All ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/12/19/simple-actionscript-preprocessor/ Sometimes there are reasons for not calling the base class constructor. A little trick in AS3.0 to not super() your base class is the following line of code: if (0) super(); http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/12/17/to-super-or-not-to-super/ I've been following the thread on the conversion of the anonymous nellymoser project to native support within ffmpeg. Since the 15th of october the patch has been approved and applied to the ffmpeg svn trunk. This is great news, we can now finally convert our FMS stored audio to anything we like! http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/10/17/nellymoser-decoding-support-in-ffmpeg/ Ever had a project where you needed to process a webcam image? We had a project for Heineken.nl called cloning. We wanted to do object recognition for objects like beer cans, bottles, etc... The objects would be placed in front of the webcam. When recognized the user would see a ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/08/23/flash-server-side-image-processing/ Take a quick peek on osflash and you’ll see tons of cool frameworks available. This begs to ask the question, why develop another open source framework? Each framework has its own strengths and weaknesses. But most important, it’s a matter of personal choice! For us there is not a single framework ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/07/28/please-no-not-another-framework/ The very first release of our own Qi framework has been made available for download through the Google Code download area. Our own source code is released under MIT license and will be maintained in our private svn repository. Other parts of the framework come from a variety of other ... http://labs.qi-ideas.com/2007/07/28/qis-very-first-framework-release/