Flash and AS3 links - toolkits

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Toolkits, Libraries, Reusable Components, Reusable Code

• AS3 Useful links
  • Reference Manuals and Cheatsheets
  • Books

Reusable flash code

There are several kinds of components

• *.swf - Flash (embedd as movie)
• *.fla - Flash source code (i.e. a template with drawings and code)
• *.as - Action Script source code (watch out for the version !!)
• *.swc - Compiled components (like the ones in the built-in components library).

Indexes

• at HotScripts.com

Free (need more)

• Adobe Exchange beta (various licences, also commercial).
• Flashcomponents (good site, but mostly older Flash)
• Flash-DB (older Flash, i.e. MX)
• Flashkit.com (Good large libary, but older Flash. Too many ads and difficult navigation and sorting.)

Commercial (I only want to have 5-6, the best at some point and not a long list ...)

• Oh my Flash
• Flash Valley (some free)
• Flashloaded

Code Repositories

• Flash @ AdvanceScripts.com, the Script Hub
• Code Library @ actionscript.org

= Private Collections

• ActionScript Library @ senocular.com

= Where you can add and organize your own code

• Snipplr.com, this allows you to keep an album with your own code... and access the code contributed by others.
• DZone Snippets. Public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world

Reusable components and libraries

Tweening

• Tweener Tweener (caurina.transitions.Tweener) is a Class used to create tweenings and other transitions via ActionScript code for projects built on the Flash platform.

• TweenLite. TweenLite (AS3) - A Lightweight (2K) Yet Powerful Tweening Engine.

• TweenFilterLite. TweenFilterLite extends the extremely lightweight (2k), powerful TweenLite "core" class, adding the ability to tween filters (like blurs, glows, drop shadows, bevels, etc.) as well as image effects like contrast, colorization, brightness, saturation, hue, and threshold (combined size: 5k).

PHP bridges

• WebORB for PHP (should be moved to Flex). server-side technology enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and PHP applications.

Flex

• Adobe Flex Component Explorer

Toolkits

• Papervision 3D

• Sandy 3D Flash Library

• APE (Actionscript Physics Engine). Free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License