21st Century Smalltalk

February 4, 2007

Progress in Porting to Adobe Flex

Filed under: Adobe — pfisk @ 2:10 pm

The port to Adobe Flex is going extremely well and I have posted a link to the test Lisp workspace  on the Vista Smalltalk main page. I have been able to run the application on a number of Windows XP machines without problem and it should run on Macintosh and Linux as well.

I will attempt to post documentation on the main site as more Lisp features are added; at the moment, there are only a few operators implemented:

  • arithmetic +, -, *, / for both integer and float
  • “string-cat” for concatenating strings
  • “cons” for building lists

Smalltalk will be ported when the Lisp interpreter is sufficiently capable, probably in a couple of weeks.

My goal is to provide identical scripting functionality for both the .Net and the Flex environments and, thus far, everything is looking good. I have located a JSON library and also a project which is implementing Jabber protocol for ActionScript 3.0. This should enable using JSON to transport objects between a client application and a server or to send objects between client applications using Jabber instant messaging.

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