Haxe Roundup 64

Haxe 2.08 has been released! You can download it at http://haxe.org/download. Read about some of the new improvements and additions at Nicolas Cannasse’s blog.

via twitter:

• A new cross platform dependency injection driven MVCS framework has been release on haxelib! - via XirSys
• New blog post - NME 3 : Flash, C++ and now HTML5 - via Joshua Granick
• New blog post - First glimpse at cross platform game running Flash and HTML5 - via Joshua Granick
• More haxe/javascript improvements on the way, nicer, smarter, smaller output - via Philippe Elsass

via mailing list:

• An interesting library ZeroMQ - the intelligent transport layer, which has haxe bindings, now has over 50 examples on how to use it - Original Post

Haxe Roundup 64

Haxe 2.08 has been released! You can download it at http://haxe.org/download. Read about some of the new improvements and additions at Nicolas Cannasse’s blog.

via twitter:

• A new cross platform dependency injection driven MVCS framework has been release on haxelib! - via XirSys
• New blog post - NME 3 : Flash, C++ and now HTML5 - via Joshua Granick
• New blog post - First glimpse at cross platform game running Flash and HTML5 - via Joshua Granick
• More haxe/javascript improvements on the way, nicer, smarter, smaller output - via Philippe Elsass

via mailing list:

• An interesting library ZeroMQ - the intelligent transport layer, which has haxe bindings, now has over 50 examples on how to use it - Original Post

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I'm very happy to announce the 2.08 release of haXe, available now on http://haxe.org/download

This release was initially planned for this summer, but it got a bit delayed because of many new features (and community requests) that needed some additional testing/feedback before a proper release.

Because haXe increasing popularity there's still a lot of pending things that needs to be done, but we had to stop a bit adding new things and make a proper release at some time. This is most likely the latest 2.xx release, next one should be haXe 3.0, around spring 2012.

Let's see now what's new in 2.08 :

• For Javascript, we've been improving the .js code output : it looks nicer, more hand-written, less verbose. There's still some improvements that can be done, but don't forget that you can write your own custom JS generator in haXe.

• there's now js.JQuery as part of the standard library. It uses the new @:overload metadata to have a fully typed JQuery access in haXe. By default JQuery-1.5 is automatically embedded, you can disable this by using -D noEmbedJS

• the full Flash Player 11 Apis are now available, with haXe high level 3D shaders HxSL and it is now possible to directly embed bitmaps with the following code :
  @:bitmap("file.png") class File extends flash.display.BitmapData {}

• two new apis for server-side web developement : the URL Dispatcher and a brand new version of SPOD which enable you to write directly your SQL as haXe expressions, see SPOD Macros

• the ability to directly reuse this and member variables from within the locally declared functions, such as the following example show :
  class Foo { var count : Int; public function new() { sprite.addEventListener("click",function(e) count++); } }

• a lot of improvements on Macros, in particular a lot of optimization for the runtime performances and better ways to manipulate a type declaration and to define new types, see Building Types with Macros

• and much more... (see the change log)

There's actually much more than this, and this is only a small part of what's happening around haXe, since there are much more work done in 3rd party libraries by the haXe community, watch for http://haxenme.org for an example.

Enjoy !

I am very happy to share with you some of the first-fruits of integration between NME and Jeash — a working game! Yesterday, I began the process of experimenting with adding an HTML5 target, thanks to Jeash. I am really impressed with how the project has developed since I last tried it out. Niel Drummond [...](author unknown)1829146834756560452208880023713431627278

From the beginning, Haxe was created to be a “multi-platform programming language.” NME relies on Haxe for reliable compilation to Flash and C++, but these aren’t the only languages Haxe supports. Meanwhile, a project (you may have heard of) called Jeash used Haxe to mirror the Flash API… but for Javascript. For everyone who is [...](author unknown)1829146834756560452208880023713431627278

Haxe Roundup 63

via twitter:

• Want to know all the options for your NMML project file? Check out the documentation on the file format - via Joshua Granick
• New blog post : Improvements around the corner for NME - via Joshua Granick
• Strictly typed definitions for HTML5 - WebGL, canvas etc have been released! - via XirSys
• 24th of September the HTML5 hackathon is being held at Eventbrite - opertunity to show off haxe - via Bruno Fonzi
• The new WebAudio API’s have already been added to the hx.html5 library, which also has WebRTC typedefs! - via Tong

Haxe Roundup 63

via twitter:

• Want to know all the options for your NMML project file? Check out the documentation on the file format - via Joshua Granick
• New blog post : Improvements around the corner for NME - via Joshua Granick
• Strictly typed definitions for HTML5 - WebGL, canvas etc have been released! - via XirSys
• 24th of September the HTML5 hackathon is being held at Eventbrite - opertunity to show off haxe - via Bruno Fonzi
• The new WebAudio API’s have already been added to the hx.html5 library, which also has WebRTC typedefs! - via Tong

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It has been exciting to be a part of NME as it has grown the past few weeks. Three weeks ago, NME 3.0.0 was released on haxelib, making it possible to use the new install tool process without using Subversion. If you haven’t heard of the install tool already, it makes cross-platform development this easy: [...](author unknown)182914683475656045221611214729399392594208880023713431627278

Haxe Roundup 62

via twitter:

• Alan Shaw’s slides for his talk Level up with haXe at the latest FlashONGames have been released - via Alan Shaw
• Dox - The Chrome omnibox extension to search the haxe api and other sources is now available - via Tong
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Working with TextFields - via Joshua Granick
• The latest recordings at FlashONGames Sept. 6th talks are now available - well worth the watch - via Bruno Fonzi
• Alan Shaw’s generative art system, Evolution, is now available on github - via Alan Shaw
• Cocktail - A new cross platform library to bridge the gap between AS3, JavaScript and PHP by SilexLabs - via Bruno Fonzi
• Akemi - The WebGL and haXe proof of concept has won the Mozilla Browser Demo Party! - via Nicolas Cannasse and Joa Ebert

Haxe Roundup 62

via twitter:

• Alan Shaw’s slides for his talk Level up with haXe at the latest FlashONGames have been released - via Alan Shaw
• Dox - The Chrome omnibox extension to search the haxe api and other sources is now available - via Tong
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Working with TextFields - via Joshua Granick
• The latest recordings at FlashONGames Sept. 6th talks are now available - well worth the watch - via Bruno Fonzi
• Alan Shaw’s generative art system, Evolution, is now available on github - via Alan Shaw
• Cocktail - A new cross platform library to bridge the gap between AS3, JavaScript and PHP by SilexLabs - via Bruno Fonzi
• Akemi - The WebGL and haXe proof of concept has won the Mozilla Browser Demo Party! - via Nicolas Cannasse and Joa Ebert

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Haxe Roundup 61

Cheers to Joshua for doing the last two roundup’s for me, you can find them at his very awesome blog.

via twitter:

• New beginners tutorial for NME : Displaying a Bitmap - via Joshua Granick
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Playing Sound - via Joshua Granick
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Adding Animation - via Joshua Granick
• Benchmarking NME with the awesome BunnyMark - via Joshua Granick
• Andy Li is introducing haxe at Birds of a Feather on Software Freedom day Hong Kong - via Andy Li
• This Tuesday September 6th, join FlashONGames for a cross platform chat, with Alan Shaw presenting haxe - via Bruno Fonzi
• HTML5 typedefs have been added to haxelib, patches and additions are welcome - via Tong

via forum:

• Synthesizer in haxe, using hscript - Original Post

via stumbling about:

• HaxeCasts, currently with two vids - How to get started on OSX and How to add images with SWFMILL

Haxe Roundup 61

Cheers to Joshua for doing the last two roundup’s for me, you can find them at his very awesome blog.

via twitter:

• New beginners tutorial for NME : Displaying a Bitmap - via Joshua Granick
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Playing Sound - via Joshua Granick
• New beginners tutorial for NME : Adding Animation - via Joshua Granick
• Benchmarking NME with the awesome BunnyMark - via Joshua Granick
• Andy Li is introducing haxe at Birds of a Feather on Software Freedom day Hong Kong - via Andy Li
• This Tuesday September 6th, join FlashONGames for a cross platform chat, with Alan Shaw presenting haxe - via Bruno Fonzi
• HTML5 typedefs have been added to haxelib, patches and additions are welcome - via Tong

via forum:

• Synthesizer in haxe, using hscript - Original Post

via stumbling about:

• HaxeCasts, currently with two vids - How to get started on OSX and How to add images with SWFMILL

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A few months ago, a friend recommended that I try BunnyMark, a cute rendering benchmark. I have meant to port it to Haxe so I could use it to benchmark NME, so today I decided to give it a whirl. The first two tests were performed on my laptop, using Flash Player and a compiled [...](author unknown)18291468347565604522

via twitter: NME 3.0.0 has been released to haxelib! – via Hugh Sanderson Blog post – Export SWF Animation to NME using Sprite Sheets – via Joshua Granick “Haxe Friday Meetup” announced, starting this week – via Nicolas Cannasse FlashDevelop dev build updated, includes better Haxe parser – via Philippe Elsass FDT5 micro-site created using [...](author unknown)1829146834756560452208880023713431627278

Animation is a key to any quality game. The workflow you choose, from design to screen, will not only impact the quality of your end-product, but also the fun you have during development. I am happy to share a workflow that goes straight from Flash to sprite sheets, and a library for Haxe and NME [...](author unknown)182914683475656045220888002371343162727805895794132457052176

A simple comparison that say it all :

  AS3 Javascript haXe Compile to Flash YNY Compile to JavaScript NYY Compile to C++ NNY Compile to PHP/NekoVM NNY Language Features Native iterators NNY this Closures YNY Conditional Compilation NNY Macros NNY Community-Driven NNY Type system Features Static Type System YNY Type Inference N Y Generics N Y Enums N Y Typed Structures N Y Inline Functions N Y Standard Library Xml YNY Serialization NNY Reflection NYY

Maybe I forgot something ?

Skial Bainn has asked that I help post the Haxe Roundup for this week and the next. You can see previous issues here. via twitter: New Blog post – Targeting SOSmax in Haxe – via Benjamin Jordan haxe.Macro.MacroType has been added to Haxe nightly builds – via Nicolas Cannasse Completion for generic objects has been added [...](author unknown)18291468347565604522

I have just posted a new screencast, walking through creating a new application with NME. The application compiles to Flash, Windows, Mac, Linux, webOS, iOS and Android. Starting with a blank project template, I load in bitmaps, create classes, add animations, handle key events, handle mouse events and cover some other principles that are great [...](author unknown)182914683475656045220888002371343162727814128517176312520140

There is a new screencast online, building from a blank project template to an Enyo application with buttons, sliding views, events, custom kinds and more. This is a great introduction if you’d like to see Enyo code completion in action, or want to learn more about Enyo developer with Haxe Javascript. http://www.joshuagranick.com/videos The template I [...](author unknown)18291468347565604522

For many who are familiar with webOS development, “Style Matters” is a household name. The original Style Matters was written by Tomomi Imura for the Palm Mojo framework. It was my favorite, “go to” reference when searching for standard CSS styles or deciding which widgets I wanted to use in my application. Following suit, the [...](author unknown)1829146834756560452208880023713431627278