[swfmill] swfmill needs your help.

[Jon Molesa]

Hey guys, it good to see some discussion open up again.  I'm not sure
how long these folks have been members of the list.

It's been a while back now but I did offer to help with documentation as
well as asking if anyone would be interested in and IDE.  I'd love to
put that together as well.  I asked for suggestions and ideas, and any
interested party to contact me.  I've heard from no one, on this list or off.
I just assumed that all users of swfmill were far more advanced in their
understand than myself and were not interested in any documentation.
If there is interest, my offers still stand.  I'm not sure the best way
to get started on the documentation as my interests with swfmill swing
one of two directions.  In one since I'd love to document all the
functional features of swfmill.  The tricks of the trade if you will.
The neat work arounds.  These things would be fun.  Then the other side
of me wants to document how swfmill works.  The belly of the beast??  So
I'm not quite sure while would be the most useful type of documentation.
Users, developer, or hacks?  All would be interesting from my point of
view.  The tool is great and works well from my point of view.  It does
it's job dutifully.  What's needed now are those that understand how to
push it with XSL and other tools to speak up.  This kind of stuff could
go in a hacks document.

My offer still stands for documentation.  I need someone to first tell
me what type of documentation I'm drafting as I'm incapable of deciding.
;-) And if anyone has any tips, tricks, how-to's, extensions or what not
please send those.  I'd love to read them and would give proper
citation.

On the IDE front, FlashDevelop is good for developers.  What's needed is
an opensource IDE similar in nature to the Flash IDE of Flash MX.  That
would allow for the visual creation and animation aspect of flash.  Some
work began on a project call Flash4Linux that become UIRA.  It has an
awesome looking IDE, very much like Flash.  I've tried several times to
get them interested in swfmill, or visa-versa.  I don't know c/c++ so I
can't write the code for UIRA to incorporate swfmill.

These are my thoughts.  Dan you've made an excellent tool.  Don't give
up on the idea that the all you labor will not bear fruit.  This is
still a very young seed that needs time to grow.  I agree that it needs
a larger community.

rjmolesa at consoltec.net