Tuio Flash Blog
14Feb/103

Little UDP status update

The current svn revision now has UDP support. This only works with the AIR 2 beta and seems to have some problems on MacOSX.

Thanks to Johannes Luderschmidt and Andy McDonald who both sent me UDPConnector implementations pretty much at the same day xD.

Also important to note is that I made some changes to the package structure since the last release so the ASDoc on the Documentation page won't be reliable. Also the ASDoc compiler seems to have a problem with the new DataSocket class which makes the UDP magic even possible so no ASDoc for the svn version :/

To use the new UDPConnector you have to use code as the following

  1. import org.tuio.*;
  2. import org.tuio.connectors.UDPConnector;
  3. [...]
  4. var tc:TuioClient = new TuioClient(new UDPConnector());
  5. var tm:TuioManager = new TuioManager(stage, tc);

Have fun ;)

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12Feb/1016

New Release v0.6

At last the v0.6 release is out in the wild! It took a little longer than expected but I ended up adding some stuff like the touchTargetDiscoveryMode that I had planned for a later release at first.

This release is all about events dispatched by the TuioManager. You can read this article to get started wit hthis fancy new class.

I will also update all the older articles in the following days so they make sense again in context of the new release.

I also added a first raw version of the ASDoc to the Documentary section. Right now it is just for overview purposes and there are a lot of things in it that shouldn't and most of the explanations are very short and without any examples or whatsoever.

Now a bit on things to come:

  • UDP support: I already received some requests to support the new UDP classes in Air 2.0 and it will definitely be in one of the future releases although I'll probably wait for the Flash CS5 beta. So blame Adobe ... ;)
  • Native Multitouch: Another thing tied to the CS5 Beta is the dispatching of the new multitouch events introduced in flash 10.1 but it will be supported sooner or later in a way. Also I might modify the new TouchEvent so that it resembles the actual flash.events.TouchEvent or just use that one instead.
  • ASDoc: My major priority right now is cleaning up the ASDoc to a level it is actually usable if you haven't coded a Tuio library yourself xD
  • RTMFP: I am still hoping that one day the protocol will be reverse engineered so UDP can also be used in normal flash projects and not just Air.

That's it for now, have fun and please write me if you have any problems or happen to rouse some bugs.

19Jan/1010

Little progress update

Sorry for the lack of updates but I managed to get some work done over the last few weeks and I am happy to tell you that the latest svn revision already contains most of the stuff I planned implementing for the next release. Especially the new event model!

I'll do a release somewhere around the first week of February and I will also publish another article in the Guides section on how to use the new event model.

So stay tuned and if you can't wait just use the current svn release. It should be pretty stable but there will be some naming changes for classes and events until the final release.

P.S. I am also working on some kind of feature roadmap for the upcoming releases until 1.0 and would like some input on what you'd like to see in the near future?

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16Oct/0913

First release v0.5

I have just uploaded the initial release package of our Tuio as3 library.
The current version number is 0.5 because there are still a lot of 1.0 features missing like the new event model.

You can find all release packages here.

Have fun playing around and tell us about your experience so we can further improve the library.

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10Oct/090

We’ve got some content up

We have put some articles online on our new as3 tuio library.

"Tuio as3 library" - This is a brief article about our library. How it is designed and what its features are.

"Guides" - Here you currently will find two guides on how to use the library and how to fix common problems. We will of course add more articles to that section.

The "Documentation" section is currently pretty empty but the main article on the library and the guides should be all you need for now if you just want to port an old project or start a project based on the library.

You can find the library's latest revision here. We will also add a downloadable package soon.

29Sep/090

Welcome to the Tuio Flash Blog

On this blog we will post articles regarding Flash, Tuio and other funky UI stuff.

So stay tuned.

P.S. There is now a board up -> take me there

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