I’ve recently been working on an image viewer to display local restaurant menus. I looked around for an open source flash image viewer to modify for the development and came up empty handed… The flash community is a little odd in terms of open source. There’s a lot of components out there for sale/license without an open source parallel. This seems very odd after running with the python and jquery crowd where sharing code is a cultural norm. It is, of course, not all that  way with flash – the game developers and graphics tweakers are very active in releasing code, there are a number of fantastic 2d/3d and physics libraries which are extremely impressive. Hopefully the culture will shift with them.

In any case, with the development stable it seems only right to open it up some code for the next developer. I’ve profited immensely over the years from open source, and it feels good to give back – even if with just a tiny contribution as a zoomable image viewer. Take it, modify it, do whatever you need to do to make it work for you.

The source is available at google code, and I hope to have some documentation up before the week is out. In the mean time, here’s a simple example.

keenerview.swf?image_url=[uri or url with cross-domain privileges]

Apologies to the squeamish for the anatomy page, it was the first interesting public domain image I came across.

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