Kinetic Fusion 3.0 Beta 6 - Flex-like XML/SWF Development
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Saturday, July 09, 2005
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I have been a huge fan of Alex Bradley's work on KineticFusion. This round trip SWF to XML compiler/decompiler is an amazing product and keeps getting better. Version 3 is worth a deeper look. Actually with this release the product makes the leap to a productive XML development tool. Prior to this the XML was very verbose and supported the entire low level SWF format. With version 3 you can create higher level XML with event support and MXML like functionality.
http://www.kinesissoftware.com/index.php
Nice work Alex, KF has come a long way!
Cheers,
Ted :)
It sure has come a long way hasn't it? I know KF has saved me more times than I can count, to compare two swfs that look identical but aren't under the hood, to modify a swf for which I lost the source, to 'debug' certain 'components' *cough* and so on. It just gets more useful every day. I don't see it competing with Flex or Laszlo for that matter anytime soon though. Rather it does seem like it could become a drop-in replacement for swfmill. In any case that's certainly good news.
Thanks for the kinds words, Ted. I'm hoping to move to a more iterative development cycle rather than the head-down approach of the last year. Unfortunately, it just seem like there was a lot of work to be done in getting the internals right.
I appreciate Patrick's comment and I recognise that I don't have the resources or the Flash application expertise to compete with Flex/Laszlo. This was the driving reason to ensure that the full RVML API and source code was available to anyone to write external tag libraries to create arbitrary XUL-like dialects. Ideally these sort of projects should be Open-Source and community driven - when I find time I'll have to look into the mechanisms for this.