SWX for REALbasic

I’m proud to announce the first public release of SWX for REALbasic. Please let me know of any questions or suggestions!

SWX for REALbasic v0.1

SWX for REALbasic is a module that translates data / data structures to a valid Flash data structure that can be read by any Flash application. A SWX RPC server is included that allows easy communication with Flash (HTTP-server borrowed from The ZAZ Studios).  I wrote SWX for REALbasic to enhance communication between my app CoverBuddy and Flash remote interfaces on mobile devices. Before I’ve tried JSON and YAML data interchange formats, but unfortunately parsing on devices like the PSP took quite long and the UI felt sluggish.

REALbasic is an easy to learn rapid application development environment that compiles native applications for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Learn more about REALbasic here. To my best knowledge there is no easy way to communicate with Flash applications from REALbasic right now.

SWX is the native data format for the Flash Platform.

SWX RPC is a remote procedure call protocol encoded in SWX. It’s simple enough that you can get up and running with it in about five minutes.

SWX was invented by Aral Balkan and is originally PHP based. Learn more about SWX at www.swxformat.org.