[transform-swf-updates] Progress report for week ending 12th March 2010

[News on r. b. a. p. f. T. S. f. J. <tra...@li...>]

After a long pause work started in earnest to get version 3.0 out of the 
door. Here's a summary of what was completed:

1. Refactoring of packages moved all the video related classes into 
com.flagstone.transform.video. Previously the classes were spread across 
several packages since video can be encoded in SWF as well as FLV files. 
Moving everything into com.flagstone.transform.video helps reduce the 
size of other packages, particularly com.flagstone.transform and makes 
it easier to find all video related code.

2. Added a new class, PropertyValue which is used to handle undocumented 
or incorrectly encoded properties that prevent an enum Property being 
used. This appears to be a problem in Flash 4 files only.

3. Added new milestones and tasks to the project portal at 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/transform-swf/roadmap Not all of the 
completed tasks are marked but over the next few weeks you should be 
able to get a reasonable view of how the project is progressing.

4. Ran the acceptance tests for Movies. 351 out of 359 files from a set 
of open source files downloaded from FlashKit can be now decoded and 
encoded successfully.  There are some issues that cause the decoding to 
run out of control and there are problems reading/writing bit fields 
that extend across 32-bit word boundaries but generally this means that 
the current snapshot from the repository can be used to read/write files 
up to Flash 7. Files for Flash 8 and 9 will be added but not until more 
unit tests are written and passing.

Overall I am pretty pleased with progress and hope to build more 
momentum in the project over the next few days. The next status update 
will be at the end of next week.

Regards,

Stuart MacKay
Flagstone Software Ltd.