Flash Document Viewer

Welcome to our Flash Document Viewer temporary project page. The viewer still needs to pass a comprehensive set of unt tests. After this, the codebase will be made available to developers willing to test and provide feedback on the level of code. Once we are at a reasonable standard and have an easily deployable, highly customizable and readily distributable project, it will be released for general use (with a beta tag ofcourse).

This project is still in pre-alpha but a new version will be released in the next three months, please check back regularly for updates!

Introduction

This viewer was created using ActionScript 3 on Flash CS4. The document has been converted to Flash using the invaluable SwfTools. A big thank you to the team working on it!

Version -0.0.5

The Player

  • The viewer is still in "Proof of Concept" phase.
  • Pre-loader is based on the AsapLibrary
  • Some inspiration from ASwing
  • A framework for error handling now exists.
  • A big thank you to all the patient souls in the Flash Freenode IRC chatrooms.
  • Open Source works. Period.

Features

The following features are to be implemented within the next few months:

  • Ability to zoom in/out with realistic tween
  • Ability to search within the document - pre-alpha
  • Migrate to Flex
  • Ensure there is comprehensive accompanying documentation.
  • Need to find/write a server that will "stream" swf files, an example of this is in Moock's Essential ActionScript 3.0 on page 796 (Chapter 28: Loading External Display Assets).

Problems