ANN - RASH 1.0 Now Available (Free)

[tbrownell]

RASH 1.0 is now available. Download your free copy from http://PowerofQ.com

RASH is a small application that brings an unprecedented amount of power to Macromedia Flash movies. RASH sits in the system tray of your computer, and provides the following to any flash movie...

* Direct access to various program APIs and libraries.
* Direct Access to MySQL, PostGres, ODBC, Oracle and other databases. (No need for a server) (Incredibly easy to import data to a Flash MX datagrid too!)
* Natural Language Processing - Fully conversational
* Send and receive emails directly via built-in SMTP / POP, APOP, IMAP support
* Pull data from ANYWHERE! Read and parse webpages to mine data.
* Builtin FTP, NNTP, TCP, UDP, POP, WHOIS
* AI / Semantic Net developing tools
* Create and run macros from Flash (AutoIT support)
* Built-in Encryption RSA, Blowfish and others.
* Pop-up Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) windows. (antigrain.com)
* Incredibly easy to program using RASH's built-in scripting language.
* Scripts run without modification on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, BSD, Amiga, BeOS, Solaris, SGI, HP UX, SCO Unix, and more.
* No need to install.. runs in the tray.
* Secure - Several levels of operational security are built-in. The default is a "safe" mode, where absolutely no files can be written to or deleted from your system without your permission.
* The ability to read, and understand, unstructured documents.
* File creation/management. Able to launch files on the fly.
* Monitoring of ANYTHING.
* Add speech recognition to any movie.
* Knowledge base handling. Q (RASH's brain) can become an expert in any field it's taught.
* RASH can use a near human sounding 'text-to-speech' engine for responses/notifications.
* Document creation/management including the ability to generate any type of document on the fly, like Word docs, .pdf etc.
* And so much more.. check the PowerofQ.com Forums for more info.

Terry Brownell
http://PowerofQ.com

[mancroft]

Is there anything it doesn't do?

What's the point of it?

Sorry to be obtuse.

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

Spam!! :mad:

[jrk_productions]

What exactly is this? Is it for apps using flash or what?? As Eric said it's SPAM, but if it's good spam and free, im all for it :D

[Barn]

Seemed relevant to me, not to mention really interesting. Have downloaded it myself and am going to check it out.

[jrk_productions]

Barn, do you know what this is? Is it a plugin for flashplayer or for creating flash movies? Im curious..

[Barn]

I don't know, yet.

[jrk_productions]

Let me know will you? Sounds interesting whatever it is.. hehe ;)

[tbrownell]

RASH isn't spam. It's a back end for your flash movies. I strongly urge you to have a good look. Be sure to check out the RASH Forums for more info / tutorial. http://powerofq.com I believe in a 'release early, release often' approach to coding, so if you have any problems, or questions, let me know.

[mancroft]

Hello tbrownell

It would be a lot easier for everyone if you gave an overview of RASH so that people can get an idea of what it is basically for.

I shall look at this and test it out.

Here's a link to the manual

http://24.86.150.60/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3

[mancroft]

Yes, this RASH is clever and well worth a look.

It is difficult to explain what it does unless you actually use it.

Uses a language called rebol.

[tbrownell]

I'll be working on the docs / tutorials over the next few days. Basically it's like this..
RASH is a small app that resides in the clients sys tray. Once RASH is running, it communicates with one or more flash movies using a simple natural language messaging syntax that I've developed over the past several years, as part of our ongoing AI R&D. Flash and RASH pass messages / data back and forth via TCP. Whereas Flash provides the usual GUI that we all know and love, RASH provides the raw computing power, and brings to Flash, not only things like direct access to DBs, data mining or string parsing, but also features like natural language processing, macro creation / execution, .dll library interfacing and others (see the original post above). It is a full blown, fully scriptable programming language. I know of nothing that you can do with C or Java, that you can't do with RASH (well, almost nothing).

Here's an example of the code required to pull 4 fields of data from MySQL, and drop it into a DataGrid..

Flash Side (Movie has a DataGrid called theGrid)

theArray = new Array();
function handleXML(xmlObject){
var e = xmlObject.firstChild;
if (e!= null && e.nodeName == "DATA4") {
field1 = e.attributes.FIELD1;
field2 = e.attributes.FIELD2;
field3 = e.attributes.FIELD3;
field4 = e.attributes.FIELD4;
_root.theArray.push({A:field1, B:field2, C:field3, D:field4});
_root.theGrid.dataProvider = _root.theArray;
}

RASH side...

Q [FP "loaddata" 15][
X: read join mysql://root@localhost/theDB? {select Field1, Field2, Field3, Field4 from Table1}
N: copy []
foreach val X [append N val]
datagrid4 "DATA4" N
]

A button in the flash movie sends a message to the application.. "loaddata".. this triggers the above code. If you wanted 9 fields, for example, just replace DATA4 with DATA9, and add more fields to the Flash code.

The MySQL line is a standard SQL statement.

That's it! It simply does not get any easier than that.
(Note: A few more lines of code allows you to change any cell of the DataGrid, and update the MySQL DB)

There's is so much more.. it really is a very powerful tool, and the possibilities are endless. But personally, I think the greatest feature is the simple syntax. Actionscript is tough, RASH makes it easy.

[mancroft]

Hey, Terry, can I try to persuade you to change the name to something unique.

Search for REBOL and all you get are pages about the language. Search for RASH and you get a list of diseases with a reference to your app on page 23.

What about RASH-F or something distinctive?

[tbrownell]

Yes, this RASH is clever and well worth a look.

It is difficult to explain what it does unless you actually use it.

Uses a language called rebol.


It is difficult to explain. And the features that I mentioned only scratch the surface. Download it, play with it, and I'll add more functions / docs as we go along.

[tbrownell]

Hey, Terry, can I try to persuade you to change the name to something unique.

Search for REBOL and all you get are pages about the language. Search for RASH and you get a list of diseases with a reference to your app on page 23.

What about RASH-F or something distinctive?

I expect that to change as Flash developers start linking to my site :)

[jrk_productions]

Sounds very interesting.. Looks like the syntax is natural language, like applescript :) Not sure this is an advantidge though, takes ages to script with applescript ... Ill sure look into it though ;)

[jrk_productions]

Wait a minute, I just realised that Rash is for windowze only.. You should do something about that :S

[tbrownell]

Wait a minute, I just realised that Rash is for windowze only.. You should do something about that :S

Actually, RASH can work with Linux, OpenBSD, and Solaris as well, with no modifications to the RASH code, (OSX coming some time soon) However, this version is for windows.

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

RASH isn't spam.

#1 - you had 1 post when you started the thread...SPAM!!
#2 - it is advertisement for a product, regardless of whether it's about Flash or not...SPAM!!
#3 - this should be in the General Chat section if your going to talk about a product...SPAM!!

Eric :mad:

[mancroft]

#1 - you had 1 post when you started the thread...SPAM!!
#2 - it is advertisement for a product, regardless of whether it's about Flash or not...SPAM!!
#3 - this should be in the General Chat section if your going to talk about a product...SPAM!!

Eric :mad:

Oh, don't be such a misery, Eric.

And don't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially one as clever as this!

[tbrownell]

I originally looked for a 'News' or 'Announcement' forum, and found none. (Which is why I used the ANN in the thread's title), and I don't think 'General Chat' is really appropriate for news this big.

I would encourage anyone who has questions to post them on RASH's forums.. a link can be found at http://powerofq.com

[tdoublea]

I don't think Eric is being such a pill.
Though you may be very excited about your project, the reason you chose ActionScipt 2.0 as the forum to post in does not seem pertinent to your subject either.
- It uses XMLSocket which has been around since Flash 5.
- It's a product no one here has asked about before here and has it's own support forum
So naturally the closest type of forum to have people read about your self professed "big" technology would be General Chat, or since it uses REBOL, why was it not thought of to place it in Server-Sided Scripting- though i understand that it is more client side technology, why wouldn't you want that forum to hype your thing which (from what i can gather) has the possibility to be a flash-based mail client and/or flash version of phpmyadmin.

Either way, whether or not RASH is the new thing to have in your system tray, i agree with eric and don't think is not the place for it.

-t

[tbrownell]

Fine, feel free to move this thread whereever. But discussing whether it should or should not be here just bumps it to the top again. I would recommend a news or annoucement or third party forum.

[Barn]

Oh, don't be such a misery, Eric.

And don't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially one as clever as this!
I concur.

[Flash Gordon]

So anyone from AS used this yet???

[mmm..pi..3.14..]

Either way, whether or not RASH is the new thing to have in your system tray, i agree with eric and don't think is not the place for it.

at least someone is on my side ;)

SPAM is like a gateway to more SPAM, you SPAM once and it gives others the idea that it's ok, especially here

Oh, don't be such a misery, Eric.

And don't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially one as clever as this!

I'm not saying it's a bad product, I'm just saying that it's annoying to see advertisements in a Forum that's supposed to be about Actionscript. And I'm not mad at the person who is advertising for this, I'm mad at the fact that he is advertising for it...period. It wouldn't matter what the product was, I would not like seeing it in a Forum like this. I would however ease up and not get so mad at it if:

#1 - the person who started the thread had more than 1 post when they did it. Having 1 post and starting a thread like this just makes it look like they registered to do that and only that.
#2 - the thread was in the General Chat section to begin with. Although I probably wouldn't like it, I'd just ignore it since at least they placed it in a Forum where you can talk about anything, Flash/Non-Flash related

[tg]

relax eric.
spammers dont take the time to read comments to spam and post replys.

i haven't downloaded and tried the product myself, but putting a product like this in general chat, and having a discussion about it is totally acceptable imo.

[Barn]

...but putting a product like this in general chat, and having a discussion about it is totally acceptable...
In Eric's defense, the thread wasn't originally posted in General Chat, but in AS2.0, and has since apparently been moved by a moderator.

[jrk_productions]

I agree finally with Eric, if you let spammers in one time, others will follow.. And the 1 count of the poster is suspicious.. (bad english);

[tg]

i don't consider letting flash developers/designers know about a product that may make their lives/jobs easier, and then sticking around to talk with them about the product spam....

[tg]

In Eric's defense, the thread wasn't originally posted in General Chat, but in AS2.0, and has since apparently been moved by a moderator.

yep, so they picked the wrong forum... a true spammer would have put it in all the forums.