Announcing FlashStickies

Last night I practically finished my little Flash desktop app that I've been working on. I call it "FlashStickies."

Basically, it's a simple clone of the popular "Stickies" application written for Macs. It's a combination of Flash MX and ScreenWeaver. In the future, once I work on SharpFlash a little more, I hope to be able to create the program with SharpFlash instead of ScreenWeaver... but that will be much later in the future - I still have a lot of work to do on SharpFlash before its even near ScreenWeaver quality.

I'll be officially releasing the 1.0 version on Friday. The only thing that the application doesn't do is save your sticky notes. It's useable as it is now, but saving is an important feature and I don't want to launch without it. With a little luck, I'll be able to have the kind folks behind ScreenWeaver link to the application from their examples page. Their example page only has 4 examples, and I think FlashStickies is a good example of how powerful Flash can be outside of a web environment.

I'll need to make a project page for it as well on this site somewhere, since I'll be continually supporting it and fixing bugs as they come in. In the meantime, here is a screenshot. Come back Friday night (Eastern Time - sometime after 6pm) - there will be a download link.

I need to clean up the source a little bit too. I plan on releasing that too, but maybe not right away. I'll wait to fix a few bugs first and give myself enough time to comment it fairly well before showing it to everyone. It will be coming though...