Still have been busy like crazy, but
as I wrote back in April,
some of what I'm doing has been pulling me further into Flash MX and XML.
Also, in the few moments of free time I've had lately, I've been toying
with my own news aggregator. It's a
PersonalServer, written in Python, based on Twisted, and uses
SQLite via PySQLite
for storage and juggling of items.
So, today I've been thinking: How hard would it be to bundle together a desktop app
composed of a backend in Python and a GUI in Flash? Connecting the two is no problem
given whatever method of XML communication you want to pass between them. Pairing
the two together to be launched on the guest OS would seem to be a bit of an
oddity.
See, I like my news aggregator GUI in the browser. It seems native there. But
on the other hand, as far as interfaces go, what I want to make the browser
do tends to sound ugly. I mean, yeah, there're all sorts of DHTML and CSS tricks
and XUL looks promising, but damn have I been noticing how slick Flash is
lately. And fiddling around with ?ActionScript has been pretty fun lately.
?JavaScript has gotten a pretty bad reputation via crashy implementations, but
as dynamic scripting languages go, there are some nifty elegances I can pull
off in it.
So...
I've been reading a bit about
Macromedia's Central as far as
desktop Flash goes, and I've seen the
News Aggregator sample app,
but
how about a maniacal mutant hybrid of Python and Flash?
shortname=flash_agg
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