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Well, the cat's out of the bag. In what is arguably some of the most exciting news the Open Source Flash community has heard recently (and, you must understand, we're used to hearing exciting news on a daily basis), Edwin van Rijkom announced today on the OSFlash mailing list and on his blog that Screenweaver will be making a comeback as an open source project on OSFlash.

Screenweaver was one of the best tools for creating desktop Flash applications before RubberDuck, the company that made it, disbanded. Now, Edwin is working on bringing the Screenweaver 3 codebase up to date for release under the GPL license. In addition to the Screenweaver application, Edwin is going to release Screenweaver Core, an open architecture that wraps the Flash ActiveX for use in desktop applications.

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Geoff Stearns just added his FlashObject project to the OSFlash Wiki and emailed the OSFlash mailing list to let us know that he has added Express Install functionality to the script.

What is FlashObject?

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Every week, I'm going to post an update on the latest news from the Open Source Flash world and the OSFlash initiative.

Since this is the first edition, there is quite a bit to report on. Here are some of the most interesting goings on in the Open Source Flash world:

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Carlo Blatz from PowerFlasher just announced on the OSFlash list that they will be giving a free license of their upcoming Eclipse-based Flash development tool, FDT, to active developers on projects hosted on OSFlash and SourceForge.

Here's a snippet from Carlo's emailt to the list:

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