Develop an extension for flash

[Andyko509]

Does anyone know how to develop an extension (MXP file) for flash 8 or 9? What
kind of language should we use if we want to develop an extension. C++? JAVA?
Where can I download the development tools for developing extension ?

[dr_ross]

It depends on what your extension is required to do, add a new tool? new
command? new C interface? theres so much you can do with it. On the whole
though you'll probably be using JSFL files, coding in Javascript with XML and
swf files for the interface. Look in the Flash help under Extending Flash for
all the documentation.

Depending on the version of Falsh you have you might need to download the
extension manager as well.

[Andyko509]

Well, for example, if I want to develop a 3D engine for Flash ? There is an
example of such thing: papervision3d.org
they have develop a 3D Engine for Flash. What kind of development tools do
they use actually?
Or you can say it is a new tools or new functions for flash?

Can I do that/

[dr_ross]

well with papervision they have developed a library of standard Actionscript
classes which are just developed in normal flash, and then in one release it
looks like they have just compiled them into Components to provide an easy way
for other developers to interact with it and make use of its functionality.

The .mxp format is a way of wrapping up the component and other things like
Commands into an selfinstaller format to distribute.

So if you're making new libraries for flash kind of like DLL's then you can
just develop them in Actionscript and distrubite as such or in compiled
components to protect the code.

[Andyko509]

The problem is, I would be interested in developing a 3D Engine too but Flash
doesn't support the distortion of bitmap image, right? However, many samples
from the papervision3D show that Flash can distort the bitmap image... How can
they do this?

[dr_ross]

You're best bet is to talk with the guys who make it, its all open source and
the forums are pretty good. I'd try and work with it as much as possible and
extend it if you need to rather than rebuilding the wheel, you can always
rebuild any classes to be more efficient instead.

Theres a lot of guys working on it, it would be an enourmous amount of work to
rebuild it on your own.