Well, I’m working on my new ‘Flash Labs’ in a few days, developing a whole ‘Vista’ windows based system in pure ActionScript 3.

A couple of months ago I started on AS 3 about an ‘unix terminal’ component in Flex 2, finally I gave up because I don’t want to be involved into UIComponent series too much. I need a more flexible, lightweight Flash. So now I use Flash 9 preview, it’s a legal version before a final of 2007 summer.

The new Flash AS3 Labs, first it’s interface of course pure Flash 9 IDE plus AS3, currently 9,355 bytes only (Nov 28, 2006 build). It wouldn’t be more than 15kbytes when it totally finished. Very light, quite neat? Yes, I love neat.

So, have a look and see you later there. Even the background image is loaded dynamically each time, so you could refresh your browser to see it again, I just want to make the air to be fresh :). I will surely add more and more icons and more ‘applications’ inside it, and all free source downloads will be there.

Btw, I need to take some nice pictures to replace vista wallpapers, unfortunately it’s the time of long Canadian winter…

Nov 30, 06 updates:

A first version 0.1 finished, 12k (11,952) bytes totally, used 4 days including design. Use more icons/links for multiple windows testing. Works fine synchronization between link/windows/taskbars. Add MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN to CLICK events together, make background windows could be activated easily. Add more blur effects for farther windows, perspective like. 9 slice scaling not support for mask, will convert it to bitmap later. Loaded SWFs could call external functions easily.