Project: SiteWand Flash Application Viewer

While working with Instantis on the SiteWand user interaction project I noticed that the more complex the application, the more difficult it was to grasp. There was no flowcharting or other means of viewing the app 'from 50,000 feet' as an overview.

However SiteWand does export an XML description of each application as a backup. After some experimentation, I developed a parser that would read any SiteWand XML file and display it as a collection of engines, with the ability to drill into each engine object to see how parameters were set.

As this static demo suggests, it would also be possible to drill right into the SiteWand page responsible for a particular setting, change it, and return to the application viewer.

To use, click open the Windows-like folders and a sample XML file will be laid out graphically by the Flash. This was written in Flash MX, with much weaker XML parsing than is available today.