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).

Code Repositories

• [1] Free Open Source Actionscript and Flash code files and resources directory. More specifically, this is a listing of websites that contain such resources.
• at HotScripts.com
• Flash @ AdvanceScripts.com, the Script Hub
• Code Library @ actionscript.org

Free (need more)

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

Where you can add and manage your own snippets

• 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

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

• Oh my Flash
• Stock Flash Community | flashgarden
• Flashcomponents (some free)
• Flash Valley (some free)
• Flashloaded

Private Collections

• ActionScript Library @ senocular.com
• Flash/Actionscript code repostory @ Kirupa.com
• Code Gallery @ onFlex.org. Specific to Flex and doesn't seem to be regularly updated anymore.

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