News for January 2010

ReactorGUI Chat and Multiuser Mouse Examples Posted

Two new Union application examples, both built on the ReactorGUI component set, are now available:

• A chat application featuring a user list, private messaging, and account registration and login.
• A multiuser mouse pointer example, where all connected users can see each other's mouse pointers.

Both examples include fewer than 100 lines of code, demonstrating how Union's modular design helps encapsulate and organize the complexity of multiuser interface development.

Edited: January 15th, 2010

ReactorGUI Component Library Now Available

ReactorGUI, a user-interface component library for building multiuser applications with ActionScript 3.0, is now available for download.

Built on Adobe Flex and Reactor (Union’s ActionScript client-communications library) ReactorGUI provides Union developers with high-level multiuser-application building blocks such as a user list, a room list, an avatar pane, a chat widget, a login window, position broadcasting utilities, and a debugging panel.

ReactorGUI is a free part of Reactor, and includes all source code so developers can study, modify, and extend ReactorGUI’s component set without restriction.

Examples, an API reference, and download information for ReactorGUI are available here.

Edited: January 15th, 2010