{"id":9,"date":"2012-02-02T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2012-11-23T22:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T22:20:01","slug":"a-cross-platform-e-book-framework-for-haxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2012\/a-cross-platform-e-book-framework-for-haxe\/","title":{"rendered":"A cross-platform e-book framework for Haxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The Glory framework is launched and can be found <a title=\"A cross-platform application framework for Haxe\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ConfidantCommunications\/Glory-Framework\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago my wife gave me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1888297018\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=confidancommu-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1888297018\">Edward Lear&#8217;s Book of Nonsense<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=confidancommu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1888297018\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>which has about a hundred limericks accompanied by strange cartoons. I found it amusing, but only a small percentage of the poems were actually funny. Lear is a talented writer but I couldn&#8217;t help but think I could do better in the limerick genre.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So I started writing limericks of my own, using Lear&#8217;s work as a benchmark. I&#8217;m up to over 75 of them. I intend to illustrate them and I hope I have the time to make them interactive. Because I want to publish to as many application stores as possible, I intend to program the book using <a title=\"A cross-platform programming language which is much like Actionscript or Javascript\" href=\"http:\/\/haxe\/\" target=\"_blank\">haXe<\/a> and <a title=\"a haXe SDK which mimics the Flash API\" href=\"http:\/\/haxenme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NME<\/a>. My other idea is to make the framework open source so as to aid the haXe community, the self-publishing community, and also to score a free copy of <a title=\"Free license for open source developers!\" href=\"http:\/\/fdt.powerflasher.com\/buy-download\/new-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">FDT Max<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>So far, my desired list of features for the application is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>XML configuration<\/li>\n<li>Forward\/back buttons<\/li>\n<li>Title screen<\/li>\n<li>Background music<\/li>\n<li>Preference pane<\/li>\n<li>Narrated or text-only mode<\/li>\n<li>Coloured or tap-to-colour mode<\/li>\n<li>Animated objects using <a title=\"Spritesheet library for haXe\" href=\"http:\/\/lib.haxe.org\/p\/spritesheet\" target=\"_blank\">spritesheets<\/a> or <a title=\"SWF assets for haXe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagranick.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/use-swf-assets-in-nme-cross-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\">swf assets<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rating link for specific platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what do you think, authors and developers? What else does such a project need?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: The Glory framework is launched and can be found here! About a year ago my wife gave me Edward Lear&#8217;s Book of Nonsensewhich has about a hundred limericks accompanied by strange cartoons. I found it amusing, but only a small percentage of the poems were actually funny. Lear is a talented writer but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2012\/a-cross-platform-e-book-framework-for-haxe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A cross-platform e-book framework for Haxe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-development","category-self-publishing","tag-haxe","tag-nme"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28GE6-9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}