Here is the Actionscript 3.0 API for the Drop box service. The library works only with AIR, as there is no crossdomain.xml file in the Drop box servers and Flash Player will not allow the communication due to cross domain security policy (That would have been cool).
Haven’t seen any implementation of the library (what the official app cannot do) so far.
AudioPhile is a collection of projects for audio generation and visualization. There are two projects under it.
Audiophile – An AS3 library for generating dynamic audio in Flash Player 10
Audiovision – An AS3 library for visualizing audio in Flash Player 10
Here is a link to an example
Worth noting that its a FP 10 only library.
AsWing is an Open Source ActionScript 2.0/ActionScript 3.0 GUI framework and library. Its a UI centric library, and is similar to Java Swing in implementation. You can either use this library to build your application, or get only what you need.
Here is the link: AsWing
Here are some applications built using AsWing of which the Flash Mini Builder is an interesting project.
Here is a collection few open source libraries targeted at Game Development.
Here is a collection of utilities provided as package level functions by John Lindquist. Here is a list of utility packages:
There are many more like bringToFront(), sendBackward() for display objects, Array shuffle (using the Fisher Yates algorithm etc)
Here is an ActionScript 3 class I use all the time to draw pixel perfect dotted lines in Flash. Free for any use other than reselling. It uses the good old bitmap filling.
A very easy to use Mouse Gesture class for AS 3.0 projects. The gesture is based on the mouse movements as shown below:
Then you go on defining your gestures as a progression of these numbers. On to code:
Instantiate it. Pass the stage reference, or wherever you want it to work.
mg = new MouseGesture(this.stage);
Add a gesture. Param 1: A string constant as an identifier. Param 2: The gesture number itself (above numbers) Here it is just a single action which will be ‘click and drag to right’ (see image)
mg.addGesture(PLAY,"0");
Add a complex gesture as a progression of above numbers. (Guess what it is)
mg.addGesture(STEP_BACKWARD,"65432");
Now add the listener.
mg.addEventListener(GestureEvent.GESTURE_MATCH,matchHandler);
Now your listener.
private function matchHandler(event:GestureEvent):void
{
switch(event.datas)
{
case PLAY:
// DO whatever you want
break;
case GESTURE_MATCH:
// DO whatever you want. Yes again...
break;
}
}
Bingo! Easy, isn’t it?
Samples:
Robotlegs is an AS 3.0 micro-architecture (or call it framework) to use with your AS 3.0 or Flex Projects. Its just an extension of PureMVC and adds Dependency Injection to it. Didnt try it personally but says it reduces the amount of boilerplate code to be written to setup a PureMVC application. It also avoids Singletons and static constants from your projects. It supports Modules (It has to, as PureMVC does it).
Scrollbars in AS 3.0? Its difficult, isn’t it? Here is one pretty good scrollbar class for Action Scropt 3.o projects. The implementation is very very easy as in:
import HexluvScrollbar;
var _scrollBar = new HexluvScrollbar(yourDisplayObject, width, maskHeight, arrows:Boolean, stage, {customization options});
addChild(_scrollBar);
yourDisplayObject is the display object to be masked by scroller. You also have to have Tweenlite library in your project inorder to compile the library.
The package available for download has some package name which is wrong, so you may need to do some clean up after the download. The library is cool overall. You always have fl.controls.ScrollBar for scrolling though!
import HexluvScrollbar;
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var _scrollBar = new HexluvScrollbar(yourDisplayObject, width, maskHeight, arrows:Boolean, stage, {customization options}); |
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addChild(_scrollBar); |
A well accepted flash and flex framework library. The library eases the large application development head ache. It can be used for both pure AS 3.0 projects and also Flex projects. A Multicore version supports communication between modules an easy affair (again both Flex and Flash)