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43 Hot Flex and ActionScript 3.0 APIs, tips

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Autumn is here again and it’s time to review some of the happenings from the summer. Here are 43 hand selected Flex and ActionScript 3.0 libraries, APIs, tips, and tricks.  There have been several new APIs launched, Cairngorm was open sourced, a Flex 3 update was released and Grant Skinner created a new tweening engine. There have been new Flex application development frameworks released. There was a Flex code generator update and there have also been some design pattern updates released. You don’t want to miss out on this link round up!

Introducing Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1
Flex SDK 3.1 is what the team considers a milestone build, a certification of all of that work and a roll-up into a build that is recommended for all users
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/sdk3_fb301.html

Cairngorm Moved to Adobe Open Source
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/amcleod/archives/2008/08/cairngorm_moved.html


Flex Architecture Basics - Models & Data Transfer Objects

Demonstrates a relatively easy way of setting up a small Flex application using a model and a data transfer object
http://nwebb.co.uk/blog/?p=228


Tutorial: ActionScript 3 Dragging Methods

This tutorial is all about dragging an object around the stage.
http://flashmymind.com/Tutorials/Actionscript/Advanced/actionscript-dragging.php


Flex Paginate Component

A little paginator component
http://www.darklump.co.uk/blog/?p=112


ModuleManager and IModuleInfo - loading Flex Modules dynamically

http://lowpitch.com/blog/2008/08/17/modulemanager-and-imoduleinfo-loading-flex-modules-dynamically/


Getting started with Degrafa

Simple code example by Mike Huntington
http://www.mikehuntington.com/?p=22


Advanced CSS with Degrafa

Another great code example by Mike Huntington
http://www.mikehuntington.com/?p=31


Alcon 3

Rewritten for Adobe AIR. This is a little debuger/logger, I used to use this back in the AS2 days and really enjoyed it. I still need to check this out but I’m sure it’s really cool.
http://blog.hexagonstar.com/alcon/


Remove css type selector warnings in Flex Builder

Quick little tip to remove css type selector warnings from the Flex Builder problems panel
http://www.nutrixinteractive.com/blog/?p=135


VBox, HBox with gradient background
http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=160


Flex designer/developer workflow video tutorials

A series of short tutorials that cover using Fireworks CS3 and Flex Builder 3 to create a visual theme for Flex applications.
http://www.ashorten.com/2008/08/11/flex-designerdeveloper-workflow-video-tutorials/


Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0 - Lee Brimelow

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/six_reasons_as3.html


Custom flex skins

Creating web-applications with flex 3 is great. there are a ton of pre-made components, and an open-ended architecture to allow you to create your own.
http://the.fontvir.us/b10g/?id=111


Writing components in Flex, part 1

http://labs.flexperiments.nl/writing-components-in-flex-part-1/


Writing components in Flex, part 2

http://labs.flexperiments.nl/writing-components-in-flex-part-2/


Flash Enabled Blog Actionscript 3 API roundup

http://flashenabledblog.com/2008/08/26/as3-actionscript-3-classes/


Create bitmap data object from a display object

http://www.flexer.info/2008/08/20/how-to-make-a-bitmapdata-from-a-displayobjectuicomponent/


FCG 1.0 (Flex code generator)

Goes final and open source
http://www.dehats.com/drupal/?q=node/45


New ActionScript 3 Singleton Method

Daniel Love’s version using static initializers
http://www.daniellove.net/blog/?p=81


CSKDebugger

AIR debuger for Mac
http://ultra-web.co.uk/?p=178


Fill Colors

Fill Colors is the embodiment of the separation between style and layout in Flex and a demonstration of what’s possible in terms of skinning a Flex application
http://www.fillcolors.com/


gTween

Animation tweening library by Grant Skinner
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2008/08/gtween_a_new_tw.html


Functional Testing Framework for AIR AJAX apps based on Selenium

http://corlan.org/2008/08/15/functional-testing-framework-for-air-ajax-apps-based-on-selenium


Yahoo! Music API

The Yahoo! Music API gives developers access to the Yahoo! Music catalog of artists, albums, tracks, videos, ratings and more. It provides numerous ways to browse the catalog: through charts, search, similarities, genres, artists, and user recommendations and ratings.
http://developer.yahoo.com/music/


ActionScript 3 Flexible Layout Class

The NpFlexLayout Class is designed to simplify aligning DisplayObjects to stage dimensions and responding to changes in stage dimensions at run time by a user or between different users.
http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/109


mediacorelib - media core library for ActionScript 3.0

The MediaCoreLib is an Actionscript 3.0 library toolset for playing audio or video files effortlessly. MediaCoreLib allows you to manage a playlist and seemlessly crossfade tracks.
http://code.google.com/p/mediacorelib/


Servebox ActionScript Foundry

An ActionScript 3 / Java framework designed for Flex 2 applications development. Its design is based on several design patterns,
http://www.servebox.com/foundry/doku.php?id=


Flest Framework

Flest is an ActionScript3 / Flex application framework for building enterprise level RIAs. It uses such design pattern as Controller, Factory, Command, etc. High efficiency, simplicity and practicality were set as its mandatory design features.
http://code.google.com/p/flest/


Guasax Flex/AIR MVC - The MVC Flex/AIR Framework

Guasax is an ease of use programming framework to provide ordered and scalable Flex applications. Life cycle of guasax framework is based in the MVC pattern to take on our program actions
http://www.guasax.com/guasax/web/en/index.php


Flex Mojos - HelloWorldTutorial

Tutorial for building a simple Hello World Flex application with flex-mojos
http://code.google.com/p/flex-mojos/wiki/HelloWorldTutorial


Scott Evans - public discussion of new FlexBuilder 4 IDE features

Scott Evans, a lead engineer on the FlexBulder team, has started a new blog - Getting and Setting  that will be for public discussion of new FlexBuilder 4 IDE features.
http://gettingandsetting.com/


dpHibernate - Hibernate lazy loading with Adobe BlazeDS

dpHibernate is a custom Flex Library and a custom BlazeDS Hibernate adapter that work together to give you support for lazy loading of hibernate objects from inside your flex applications.
http://blog.mikenimer.com/index.cfm/2008/5/21/dpHibernate–Hibernate-lazy-loading-with-Adobe-BlazeDS

http://code.google.com/p/dphibernate


Alternativa3D — browser 3D-engine based on Adobe Flash

Create 3D-scenes in Flash: objects, mechanisms, buildings visualization. Import geometry from 3D-formats, upload textures (including animated). Three-dimentional projects and games, basic physics simulation (friction, collision).
http://alternativaplatform.com/en/alternativa3d/


KwikUML - build UML models of ActionScript and PHP classes

A tool to quickly build UML models of ActionScript and PHP classes and interfaces, as well as, SQL Entity Relationship Designs (ERDs). Built on Adobe’s AIR runtime, this desktop application allows you to not only build those models but export PNGs of the models for use in specification documentation and generate stub code from the models to use as a starting point once it’s time to actually begin development.
http://labs.otuome.com/kwikuml


KitchenSync

KitchenSync is an ActionScript 3.0 library for sequencing animations and other time-based actions.
http://code.google.com/p/kitchensynclib/


as3xls - read and write Excel files in Flex

Supports reading text, numbers, formulas, and dates from Excel version 2.x-2003 and writing text, numbers, and dates. Formulas also update to reflect changes in cells they reference.
http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/


ASDebugger - A run-time debugger for AS3 Projects

The ASDebugger allows you to trace variables. It has support for strings, integers, arrays, dates, arraycollections, objects and everything in between.
http://labs.flexperiments.nl/asdebugger/


as3corelib update

This is an ActionScript 3 library that contains a lot of useful APIs for working with AS3.
http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/


swix framework - Flex development framework

Swiz is a framework for Adobe Flex that aims to bring complete simplicity to RIA development. Swiz provides Inversion of Control, event handing, and simple life cycle for asynchronous remote methods. In contrast to other major frameworks for Flex, Swiz imposes no JEE patterns on your code, no repetitive folder layouts, and no boilerplate code on your development. Swiz represents best practices learned from the top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry, enabling Swiz to be simple, lightweight, and extremely productive.
http://code.google.com/p/swizframework/


Gaia - open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2

Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.
http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/


Penne Framework - lightweight framework for developing in Flex and Air

version 1.0 of The Penne Framework, a simplified Flex and Air framework, as a second option to the popular Cairngorm Framework.
http://www.flexpasta.com/index.php/2008/04/19/introducing-the-penne-framework-for-flex-3/


An ActionScript Compiler Written In ActionScript

“It’s enough to warm the cockles of one’s heart. ActionScript nerds around the globe can celebrate their graduation to “real programmer” status (whatever that means).”
http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/08/27/an-actionscript-compiler-written-in-actionscript/

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