A user recently had a compilation issue on FDT; see here for the thread on Github. There was a stray dependency in the as3-navigator library which we took the opportunity to cleanup, as well as updating the AssetLoader to the latest version, 2.3.4.

The fix worked out, and so the latest BirdBase is actually available within the demo site, rather than on the BirdBase repo. We’ll get around to checking the core code and ensuring it really is a proper release before we update the main repo.

This means that the demo site should compile cleanly on Flash Builder, FDT and with Sprouts/Rake. Thanks to Alistair Colling for reporting the issue.

Get it here: https://github.com/vishvish/BirdBase-Demo-Site.

See the demo in action here: http://demo.birdbase.org/demo-application/v1.0/

UPDATE: The Demo application is now available at https://github.com/vishvish/BirdBase-Demo-Site

I’m pushing the code to Github, but it’s going to be in heavy progress for a little while. Essentially, I’m extracting the code from the production microsite, and then adding specific features to demonstrate how certain things can be done.

Features Planned

• A navigation menu so you can switch between the views. Rather important this. It’ll show off the deeplinks and AS3-Navigator integration.
• DynamicSprite switching. Two or more asset library SWFs with different graphics but the same names, to demonstrate on-the-fly asset swapping out.
• Multiple font embedding with Text Fields.
• Using the rough video player I created with OSMF, the Open Source Media Framework.

Get the source

The source is here: https://vishvish@github.com/vishvish/BirdBase-Demo-Site.git

If anything’s broken, let us know ASAP, and we will fix it.