Comments on: Alchemy – first looks

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:46:19 +0000

I have been dealing with alchemy a bit here and there and I am trying to port the jpeg lib to use for compression of images. I am having issues including my files and being able to call any methods at all that the library is suppose to bring in. If there is any tips or recommendations you could give me, that’d be awesome! thank you

By: Text extrusion and triangulation experiments « Barcinski & Jeanjean

Text extrusion and triangulation experiments « Barcinski & Jeanjean — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:11:19 +0000

[...] huge excess of vertices and triangles and before I could figure out how to fix it, Tim Knip has posted this fantastic method in alchemy form that triangulates polys with holes without creating any extra [...]

By: Arthy

Arthy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:02:13 +0000

Finally thanks to Branden Hall, i successfully compiled your example with Flash CS4 by modifying 2 options from the publish settings :

1) as you said, File => Publish Settings => Flash => Script Settings, then add the swc there as ‘library path’ (”external library path causes an error)

2) check the “Export SWC” option

And that’s it

Hope this will help.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:46:32 +0000

Ah, yes… Flex 3.2+ is required. Sorry about that, my bad.

By: Arthy

Arthy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:10:43 +0000

Thank you very much

This is new stuff from Flash CS4 i didn’t know.

But i am facing a new problem when i compile, i got a error which is en open issue in the alchemy forum :

“ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MainTimeline is not defined”

The same problem exists on the EchoString example, so it seems that we have to compile under flex to make it work properly.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:49:52 +0000

File => Publish Settings => Flash => Script Settings
Then add the swc there as ‘library path’ or ‘external library path’.
I hardly use CS4, so I’m not completely sure. But its a setting there for sure.

By: Arthy

Arthy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:43:11 +0000

Hello,

I got the Flash 10 Trial edition to try again, but i must have missed or forget something about SWC files…

Where am i supposed to put/include the swc file in flash 10 to get the example work ?

thanx

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:18:40 +0000

That looks great makc! If I only knew before

By: makc

makc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:09:23 +0000

I dont know if you seen this, but http://makc.coverthesky.com/FlashFX/ffx.php?id=18

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:27:19 +0000

I quote Adobe:
“Alchemy is primarily intended to be used with C/C++ libraries that have few operating system dependencies. Ideally suited for computation-intensive use cases, such as audio/video transcoding, data manipulation, XML parsing, cryptographic functions or physics simulation, performance can be considerably faster than ActionScript 3.0 and anywhere from 2-10x slower than native C/C++ code. Alchemy is not intended for general development of SWF applications using C/C++.”