Koolmoves 7 & SWF Studio 3.7
Today I compiled my first app using a pure Koolmoves 7 swf core with SWF Studio 3.7. Bob Hartzell immediately set to work tweaking the KM7 compiler to supprt the new AS3 Intrinsic Classes included with the new SWF Studio (3.7) and from the looks of the screenshots below, he is doing quite a fine job!
Koolmoves application firing a native windows popup message with the ssCore.App.showMsgBox SWFS command
Koolmoves listing result of a batch of images dropped on application using ssCore.App.setNotify
Dropped file array being split and searched through with AS3 and then used to populate a KM7 listbox component with the image name as the label and the path as the data.
Now Koolmoves has had a long standing friendship with the Northcode team and on face value this may not seem like big news. The reality is, once Koolmoves introduced AS3 support, we lost support for SWFS as their AS3 classes were only provided via SWC and Koolmoves does not support SWC libraries. That meant to continue to utilize SWFS with Koolmoves, you had to export your core movie as AS1. Northcode did things a little different for the 3.7 release. They not only provide SWC files, they also provide AS3 intrinsic classes like they did for AS2 so now even Koolmoves users who want to export AS3 movies can once again rely on the awesome abilities of SWF Studio to create some very cool desktop applications. That, is very big news and to make it even more awesome, Northcode offers a 10% discount to all Koolmoves users! If you are a Koolmoves developer and want to make desktop applications that allow you to do things you simply cannot do without a commercial wrapper….you’ll be hard pressed to find a better wrapper than SWF Studio or better customer support. Download their unlimited trial version and see for yourself!
For a list of all SWF Studio commands, visit the NorthCode website!
