[screenweaver] Screenweaver HX & Future

[Edwin van Rijkom]

Martijn de Visser wrote:
> Creating a SW-X version takes a lot of time, because quite a complicated 
> GUI is required to facilitate all the settings, SW3 is a good example.
>   
As you know, SW3 was originally developed as a commercial application 
and hence had to be feature complete from release one. With Screenweaver 
X, it's a different story: we can start out really small, and do many 
iterations, adding features step by step.
Also, on the SW3 project manager, we had to use Flash 5. That's worlds 
apart from the technology that's at our disposal now. At it's core, the 
SW project manger is a collection of forms; with nowadays technologies 
like Flex 2 and ActionStep creating it shouldn't be as hard as it used 
to be.
> I hope you and Nicolas can keep working on SW-HX. HaXe seems like a 
> stable and robust programming environment, SW-HX is a great addition to 
> haXe.
>   
Me too. And yes, haXe is indeed very robust and stable. We'll probably 
release SWHX v.1.0 this week or the next. It won't be feature complete, 
but it will evolve over time.

Cheers,
Edwin