Editor

Image Picker

Final Results

Ingredients

Actionscript 2.0, compiled for Flash Player 7.

Description

Aerva, a digital signage company, needed a WYSIWYG editor that would help its users easily create content for their displays. I created a layout engine in Flash can hold and keep track of objects that are positioned with a click-and-drag interface. It is written as a Flash component and can display text fields, JPGs, SWFs, and FLVs. I also created a ticker, or crawl, that can display content from RSS feeds as well as custom content. The layout information can be saved to and populated from XML file or a URL-encoded string

I also wrote an editing interface to make it easy to edit the properties of the objects in the layout engine. It has an image picker that shows a directory tree that previews of available images, swfs and flvs, and it also has a color picker to make it easy to change the color of the background or text.

The layout engine has been a hit with Aerva’s clients, and it’s now part of their core product.

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