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Below are some of the cool stuff in the library.

org.casalib.time package has some very useful classes.

EnterFrame – creates a centralized EnterFrame event, even if your class is not a Display Object.

FrameDelay – registers a callback method after specified number of frame executions (Read as advanced callLater() method of Flex)

Inactivity – Determine user inactivity based on Mouse movement and key press. Detects inactivity and ‘back to active’ events.

Interval – Simplified Timer() class.

Sequence – Registers functions and executes them in sequence.

org.casalib.load – has a list of load classes for various file types.

org.casalib.collection has two List data structure implementations. List is similar to any Java List class. There is another UniqueList class which will only allow unique values to be stored in it; which will be quite handy.

org.casalib.utils package has a collection of very good utility classes which will difintely help you.

Short

When Action Script 3.0 was introduced with Adobe Flash CS3, it was a game changer and it definitely changed the way applications are coded in Flash. We moved to true Object Oriented Programming and the complexities and beauties of Software Engineering.

That’s the developer part of the story. Designers? This change left the designers in a complex web of codes which was too verbose and I have seen people getting lost, or they didn’t want to add those simple scripts (or actions) they used to add to the movies.

For adding an action to a button you could do below prior to CS3 release.

On the button itself:

onClick{

}

or on the frame

buttonInstance.onClick(){

}

But see what is required to do the same in CS3 or later releases of Flash:

on the frame (and only on the frame. No script is allowed on the button or movie clip):

buttonInstance.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,buttonClickHandler);

function buttonClickHandler(e:Event)

{

//Code here...

}

Here is what you should do to add an enterFrame event and animate an object.

this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, eventHandler);

function eventHandler(e:Event):void

{

//Code here...

}

Here is where Short comes in as a great help. Short tries to simplify things again and put that smile back on Designer’s face, to some extend.

The above tasks simplifies to:

on the frame:

_.to = this;

_.button.onClick=function(){

//

}

or even simpler, as you used to do before:

$(instance).onClick=function() { }

//For enterFrame checks
$(stage).onEnterFrame=function(){ }

//Roll over
$(instance).onRollOver=function(){}

Only additional thing you are adding is just the $(..), which way easier than the ‘Flash’’s native coding.

Now, on to how to configure the Flash IDE for using Short. Head to the Google Code page of Short and grab the latest SWC (Short.swc) from the download page.

If you are a designer and needs to use this in all the work you are doing, it make sense to add the library permanently. Follow below steps.

1. Download the SWC
2. Go to the folder <installation Directory>\Common\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0\libs\ and copy the SWC here. The path looked like below on my Windows XP machine with Flash CS5

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS5\Common\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0\libs

Now open up Flash IDE and start writing ‘Short’ codes.

If you want to add the SWC on a project basis, follow below steps.

• Select ‘File’ from menu.
• Choose Publish Settings
• Click the Flash tab
• Select Flash Player 10 and ActionScript 3.0
• Click Settings
• Select the Library path tab
• Add Short.swc

Good to go.

If you are using Short with Flex/Flash Builder(I dont know one will use this with Flex/Flash Builder), you can copy the SWC to the ‘libs’ folder or add using property panel of the project.

More details in the Google Code home page for Short. Short was demoed at the Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010.

Haven’t seen any implementation of the library (what the official app cannot do) so far.

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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

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Worth noting that its a FP 10 only library.

Here is the link: AsWing

Here are some applications built using AsWing of which the Flash Mini Builder is an interesting project.

AS3.0 Gears

• array
• color
• conversions
• date
• event
• garbage collection
• html
• number
• string
• validation
• and more…

There are many more like bringToFront(), sendBackward() for display objects, Array shuffle (using the Fisher Yates algorithm etc)

Visit the GitHub Page here.

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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?

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Samples:

At ByteArray.org

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