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Open Source BBC Flash Components Set Released

We had a great meeting last night at the London MMUG, where Rob Bateman premiered his SMX Components set, developed for use in the BBC News US and UK election maps and now released by the BBC as open source.

You can download the release from the BBC's account on SourceSecure at the following address:

http://www.sourcesecure.co.uk/trac/bbc/smx

There's also a mailing list that you can join at:

http://proalias.com/mailman/listinfo/smx_components_proalias.com

[Update] There's apparently an issue with the mailing list. Rob's going to let me know when it has been resolved. For the moment, don't bother clicking on the above link :) (Thanks to Folkert and Richard for alerting me!)

[Update] The current alpha release is apparently still under a BBC license (not for commercial use) but this is apparently only due to the slow legal process of getting an open source license approved at a large institution like the BBC. I'll post an update when the actual open source license for the set has been chosen.

Comments

Hey Aral,

Think we might have a dead link here for the mailing list.

I get "No such list smx_components_proalias.com".
by Richard Leggett on 2005-06-17 14:30:06
When I install it asks for a source folder, where do I put this and what is it for?
by Joc on 2005-06-17 16:54:19
Joc, this is to put the component skin FLA file, it should default to the same location as the MM component FLAs, in the Flash configuration/componentFLA folder.
by Richard Leggett on 2005-06-17 17:33:43
can i put the word in to get the word to the powers that be - that it would be _really_ helpful to have at least a list of what components are included in this package somewhere on the wiki. :-)

(if it's there somewhere, i aplogize, but i just didn't see anything outside of the source browsing)

and i'm not sure if it was my machine only, but does it take >10 minutes to install the MXP on anyone else's machine?

:-)
g.
by gwygonik on 2005-06-17 21:18:42
Hi Greg,

Rob mentioned yesterday that the install takes a long time due to the large number of documentation files.
by Aral Balkan on 2005-06-17 21:40:33