Today I continued to progress on my Samsung Smart TV project with unit test implementation. My aim is to prepare smooth process for automated builds. First, I tought I would struggle with it much more but at the end it appeared that necessary tools already exists.
My first sreps led me to “Writing Unit Tests” article about resources available directly with HaXe, however it seemed that JavaScript testing was not available. The article also referenced MUnit a cross-platform haxe unit testing framework, which looked to have more capabilities.
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Train Lord is a live massively multiplayer game (MMOG) using real world data and maps. The goal is simple. Become the richest lord in the world by buying rails, stations, trains, creating rail sets and dispatching trains. I have been developing this game and learning a lot of technologies to put all the stuff together since February 2012. Starting November I was able to release the first version live. Click here to play, here to see help page, or here for Communuty page. I would like to describe and give credits to some technologies I have used, so it may help other developers as well as myself somewhere in the future 
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There is a lot of flex preloader tutorials all over the internet. If you take a closer look at each, you may notice those all extends DownloadProgressBar or SparkDownloadProgressBar classes. You may decide that these classes do not fit your needs, and it that case you can extend regular Sprite with IPreloaderDisplay implementation. Soon you realize there is some other Preloader in use, that communicates with your custom one through events. Following example contains a preloader implementation that renders a filled arc based on application load progress and RSL load progress. Lets have a look how to handle it properly.
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In case you are using flexunit ant task with your flex builds and you are used to failed builds with haltonfailure=”true”, you may notice that junitreport task is not executed when unit tests fails. Without having test reports, it does not give you much info about what went wrong. Fortunately, there is a solution using attribute failureproperty and fail ant task. Here is a quick ant build config to generate junitreport report for failed unit tests followed by build fail.
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At the same time I released YCanvas, I have spotted an interesting starling experiment. I realized I can do this for YCanvas easily with Remotair. Remotair is a concept of transmitting device inputs (gestures, accelerometer, camera etc.) into receiving flash or AIR application. Consists of one transmitting app installed on a mobile device or a tablet and one receiving app running on a PC. In order to pair transmitting and receiving application, RTMFP protocol is used. Implementing remotair reciever into any flash application takes only a few minutes, I spent much more time on touch + multitouch implementation with transitions. At the end of the day, I was able to remote controll YCanvas application with BlackBerry Playbook.
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Hello YCanvas, who are you? I am an open source ActionScript 3 library that provides stage3D (GPU) engine for perfectly overlapping grid based zooming projects like world maps or onBoard. What? Ok, I am the engine that statnds behind onBoard, and I can handle much more. I can implement Wall Of Fame, WebCanvas, MapQuest, ArcGIS, Open Street Map or do some experiments like Flickr gallery, all this in one flash, few lines (10-20) of specific code per mode, all running at 60 FPS. Anyhing else would you like to see implemented? Just let me know… Do you want to know more and see it in action?
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