Archive for Actionscript 3
December 17, 2007 at 7:50 pm · Filed under Actionscript 3, Adobe, Flash, Flex, OSFlash
Go ActionScript Animation Platform has just been released by the talented (and former Portland resident) Moses Gunesch. You may know Moses as the developer of FUSE, one of the first (and best) ActionScript 2 animation engines. Moses is back with a community-led animation platform initiative which has been in the works for some time.
You can read more about it on the open source project's blog and website, but here is a quick overview from the project's website:
"The Go ActionScript Animation Platform ("GOASAP") is a lightweight, portable set of generic base classes for buliding AS3 animation tools. Go provides structure and core functionality, but leaves the specifics to you.
"Go intends to support both linear (tweened) and physics animation, and could theoretically be extended to other base types, perhaps Collada animation for example. However at the time of this writing Go is at an early stage and the physics side is yet to be developed. Parallel and sequenced tweens are already supported by several optional utility classes: PlayableGroup, Sequence, and SequenceCA – a sequence with "custom advance" options."
November 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, OSFlash, SWFAddress
The long awaited update to SWFAddress has been released and is ready for download. Rostislav has been posting update notes listing new features, such as the new SEO abilities, all week leading up to the release.
New features include:
- Support for multiple Flash movies in the same HTML page and Ajax.
- Event listeners for ActionScript and JavaScript.
- New SWFAddressEvent class with support for INIT and CHANGE types.
- New unobtrusive SEO technique.
- Support for Adobe Flash CS3.
- Support for Flash Player 7 with the Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit.
- Support for SWFObject 2.0, UFO and Adobe's Active Content embedding.
- New strict mode that adds trailing slashes by default.
- New helper methods for link, window and popup management.
- Ability to configure the script with query parameters.
- The swfaddress.html is optional and not used by default.
- Lots of new and improved Flash based samples.
- Various optimizations and fixes.
- API docs for ActionScript 3 and JavaScript.
Rostislav has been hard at work on this project for quite some time, and the improvements include those which were the most requested by developers. I'm also happy to have been a part of this release by helping with the documentation and an AS3/Flash CS3 sample.
I should also note that rumor has it there may be some t-shirts available to those who donate to the project and help fund future development!
November 2, 2007 at 10:47 am · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, OSFlash, SWFAddress
Rostislav has announced on his blog that SWFAddress v2.0 will be released on November 16th. This update includes lots of additional features and is compatible with Safari 3. Rostislav has put a lot of effort into this release, and you'll want to make sure you check it out.
October 28, 2007 at 3:33 pm · Filed under Actionscript 3, CS3, Flash
Didier Brun of ByteArray.org fame has released a free set of Flash CS3/AS3 UI components, offered as an alternative to those provided by Adobe.
I was never a big fan of the AS2 components provided with Flash MX2004 and 8, and when in a bind I would often find myself using Keith Peter's Bit Component set as a replacement. Over time I found myself using them almost exclusively. Now if the same scenario plays out with the AS3/CS3 components, there appears to be a great replacement.
Check out the blog post to see all the features of the component set.
October 28, 2007 at 2:41 pm · Filed under AIR (Apollo), Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flex, OSFlash, PHP, Remoting
I have just posted a small collection of AS2 and PHP classes I have written/modified while working on various projects over the years. I intend to continue to add code as I have the time, so the list should be ever-changing.
For the initial push I posted: SmoothImageLoader (AS2), RegExp (AS2), Tooltip (AS2), BadFilter (AS2), ConstantContact (PHP), and SubmitVerisignPayment (PHP). For more details on these classes, please visit:
http://www.jonnymac.com/blog/code/
Enjoy!
October 1, 2007 at 11:28 am · Filed under Actionscript 2, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flex, OSFlash
SWFObject has long been the standard in embedding Flash content in web pages and detecting if the viewer has the correct version of Flash installed. A back in February the creator of SWFObject (Geoff Stearns) and the creator of a competing solution, UFO (Bobby van der Sluis), joined forces to create SWFFix, a new and improved best-of solution.
Today Geoff and Bobby announced that SWFFix is being renamed to SWFObject and will take over future development of that project together. In addition, the newly minted SWFObject has been released as 2.0 beta 1. The release doesn't seem to include any major feature enhancements, but rather a clean-up of the code in preparation for future development.
It is great to see signs of life back in this awesome open source project and that Geoff and Bobby are serious about continuing development!
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