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AlivePDF

AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library.
It allows you to generate PDF’s client-side.
http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/?page_id=2

Amazon S3 ActionScript Classes

Connect to Amazon’s AS3 service from Apollo
http://code.google.com/p/as3awss3lib/

Artemis

Artemis is a community focused project aimed at bridging AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime, formerly Apollo) applications with existing java libraries. Nearly any java API can be encapsulated in an Artemis Library and exposed to an AIR application through the Artemis framework.
http://artemis.effectiveui.com/

asSQL

Connect from ActionScript directly to mySQL
http://maclema.com/assql/

commandproxy

A simple development kit for proxying calls between applications and the operating system.
Useful for web based desktop application environments which may not have complete access to operating system functionality by default.
This project is intended as a proof of concept.
http://code.google.com/p/commandproxy/

Commando

Commando is an extension to Adobe’s Cairngorm that allows Flex developers to take advantage of command line parsing in their applications.
http://labs.effectiveui.com/commando/

corelib

The corelib project consists of several basic utilities for MD5 hashing, JSON serialization, advanced string and date parsing, and more.
http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/

degrafa

Degrafa is a declarative graphics framework for Flex. Degrafa allows you to use MXML markup to draw shapes, make complex graphics, create skins and also includes advanced CSS support.
http://code.google.com/p/degrafa/

Ebay

The eBay ActionScript 3.0 library provides an interface between the eBay XML API and ActionScript 3.0. This open-source library will allow developers to create novel and innovative applications leveraging both eBay’s marketplace services and Adobe’s Flash Player 9 runtime! It is written in ActionScript 3.0, so any environment using ActionScript 3.0 can use this library, including Adobe Flex 2 and Adobe Flash Pro 9.
http://code.google.com/p/as3ebaylib/

Facebook

The Facebook Actionscript API provides an interface between the Facebook REST based API and Flash/Flex based applications.
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/

FlexUnit

FlexUnit is a unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3.0 applications. It mimics the functionality of JUnit, a Java unit testing framework, and comes with a graphical test runner.
http://code.google.com/p/as3flexunitlib/

Flickr

The Flickr library is an ActionScript 3.0 API for the online photo sharing application, Flickr. It provides access to the entire Flickr API.
http://code.google.com/p/as3flickrlib/

Jest

Jest is a mouse gesture interpereter extension to Adobe’s Cairngorm framework. Jest allows a developer to add mouse gestures to any Flex application.
http://labs.effectiveui.com/jest/

Mappr

Mappr is a service and application that combines images from Flickr with geolocational information. The Mappr ActionScript 3.0 API gives you access to Mappr’s geo-tagged image data.
http://code.google.com/p/as3mapprlib/

Odeo

The Odeo API provides an ActionScript 3.0 interface for searching and retrieving podcasts from Odeo.
http://code.google.com/p/as3odeolib/

Papervision3D

Papervision3D is an open source project enabling realistic 3 dimensional Flash.
http://code.google.com/p/papervision3d/

Pownce

AS3 library for connecting to the Pownce APIs.
http://code.google.com/p/as3powncelib/downloads/list

Ribbit

The Ribbit API allows developers to integrate telephony into their Flex and AIR applications.
http://developer.ribbit.com/

RSS and Atom libraries

Use the RSS and Atom libraries to parse Atom and all versions of RSS easily. These libraries hide the differences between the formats so you can parse any type of feed without having to know what kind of feed it is.
http://code.google.com/p/as3syndicationlib/

UrlKit

UrlKit supports Adobe Flex applications that need to expose URLs and window titles in the browser to represent their state. These URLs can be bookmarked, accessed via the Back button, etc. Such states typically represents some notion of location within the app, but in general can be mapped to any aspect of the application.
http://code.google.com/p/urlkit/

WOW-Engine 3D Physics Engine

This engine handles positions and rotations of abstract objects, which need to be linked to some visual objects (2D or 3D).
http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/

YouTube

The YouTube API provides an ActionScript 3.0 interface to search videos from YouTube.
http://code.google.com/p/as3youtubelib/

Yahoo! Answers AS3 API

Yahoo! Answers is the most popular Q&A service in the world, with hundreds of millions of users and tens of millions of questions and answers. That entire dataset is available for search and retrieval via the web APIs, and now via the ActionScript APIs as well.
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

Yahoo! Weather AS3 API

Yahoo! Weather provides current detailed meteorological conditions and forecasts for over 60 thousand locations around the world, from Aruba to Zimbabwe internationally, and from zip code 00210 to 99950 in the US. The data is updated hourly and comes with a full set of weather icons to reflect the conditions. The current weather report, in addition to temperature, contains full details on wind conditions, sunrise and sunset times, atmospheric conditions, and other data.
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

Yahoo! Search AS3 API

Yahoo! Search indexes 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files. The search indices are updated daily and in addition to site search, feature image, video and audio search, song downloads, album lookup, news search, term extraction, spelling correction, related suggestions, local and context-based searches. All of these are accessible via the AS3 API.
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

Yahoo! Upcoming.org AS3 API

Yahoo! Upcoming.org is a social event calendar with an open API. The Upcoming.org API allows users to manipulate all aspects of the calendar: edit and post events, create groups and venues, retrieve lists of events and metro areas, and so on. The AS3 wrapper provides convenient access to that functionality via native AS3 classes.
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

Yahoo! Maps AS3 Communication Kit

Yahoo! Maps is a powerful map browser with multiple additional tools (widgets) that make it truly universal. The Maps API allows incorporation of GeoRSS feeds, custom marker creation, and many other features. Although the Maps library currently only exists as an AS2 component, we’ve created an AS3 wrapper that allows developers to use Maps in their AS3 applications.
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/astra-webapis/

Here are an example of how to use the listcomponent in AS3


//Define new list and add to stage
list = new List();
list.x = 100;
list.y = 100;
stage.addChild(list);



///AddItems
list.addItem({label:"3. Einde", data:"einde"});


//Check for Click
list.addEventListener(ListEvent.ITEM_CLICK, switchIndex);


private function switchIndex(e:ListEvent){
//Item Index
trace(e.index);
//Current Item
trace(e.item);
//Current Item Data
trace(e.item.data);
//...
}


Full Detailed description of ListEvent:
Here

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3xml/

http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2007/05/easy-xml-parsing-using-as3-actionscript.html

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/using_xml_as3_pg1.htm

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=65

http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/16

Info on ceu points can be found herehttp://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/flash/video/cuepoints.html

Tutorials

• http://www.kirupa.com/
• http://www.lionbichstudios.com/flash_tutorials_01.htm
• http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1
• http://www.vectorkid.com/
• http://www.cbtcafe.com/FLASH/
• http://www.flashkit.com/
• http://tutorials.flashguru.co.uk/
• http://www.flashcircle.com/
• http://www.flashdeveloper.nl/g_flash_Tutorials.html
• http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/
• http://www.flash-mx.com/flash/index.cfm
• http://www.flashpro.nl/flas.html
• http://www.developingwebs.net/flash/#MX
• http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials.shtml
• http://www.flashmove.com/
• http://tutorials.flashsitesweekly.com/flash/
• http://www.stranger.per.sg/

Resources

Flash Sounds

• http://flashkit.com/soundfx/
• http://www.computerarts.co.uk/downlo…ashSounds1.asp
• http://www.flashsound.com/

Flash Fonts

• www.miniml.com
• www.fontsforflash.com
• www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts
• http://www.vectorize.de/
• http://www.superlooper.de/
• http://www.fatorcaos.com.br/?l=trabalho/fontes
• http://www.alphaomegadigital.com/flash_fonts.asp

Also See

Releated Useful Lists

• Frequently Asked Questions
• ActionScript 3.0 Tip of the Day
• Useful Source/Experiments Resources

Releated Links

• Source/Experiments Forum
• Best of Kirupa.com Forum
• Best of Senocular Thread
• Flash Limits

Thank you kirupa.com

ActionScript 3 is the next step forward in Flash scripting and to help with the transition (for those of you deciding to make it), I thought I’d make a new Tip of the Day thread for ActionScript 3.0 to help people prepare (after 100 tips, they will no longer be provided daily).

Note: Many of these tips were created prior to the release of Flash and pertain to AS-only projects. Others were for use with the Alpha version of Flash (released prior to the full release of Flash). Most of these are noted as being for “Flash 9″. Though much has changed in Flash CS3, most of those tips should still apply to it as well.

To code AS3, you’ll need one of the following

:

• Flash Professional CS3
• Free Flex SDK (with AS3 compiler)
• Flex Builder 2
• http://try.flex.org/ (online Flex MXML – with AS3 – compiler)

ActionScript 3 Tips and Tricks:

Latest Additions
(All categories are ordered from oldest (top) to newest (bottom))

• Use IEventDispatcher to type EventDispatcher objects
• What removeMovieClip() becomes in ActionScript 3
• How stage, root, and MainTimeline Fit Together
• Thinking “Outside Looking In” and not “Inside Looking Out”

General

• Change the frame rate of your movie
• Abstract Classes
• Deep Object Copies with ByteArray
• Determine Instance Class or Superclass
• Multiple Arguments in trace()
• Loading Text and XML with URLLoader
• Get Sound Spectrum Information
• Garbage Collection: Reference Counting & Mark and Sweep
• Weak References
• MXMLC: SWF Metadata Tag
• TextField.appendText()
• Access to stage and root
• No More Color Class; Use ColorTransform
• Array.indexOf (Array.lastIndexOf())
• System.totalMemory
• Closing Net Connections
• AVM2 (AS3) to AVM1 (AS2/AS1) Communication via LocalConnection
• Class member enumeration
• Key.isDown in AS3
• Scale and Alpha Ranges
• Available ActionScript packages
• Numeric Calculations: Number vs. int Speed
• Getting Around globally accessible _root and _global
• ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 Converter
• Accessing FlashVars and HTML Parameters
• ActionScript Speed Through Typing
• LivePreview and the LivePreviewParent class
• Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3
• Loading URL encoded Variables
• Interactive Masks
• No _lockroot
• Loading a Cross-domain Policy File
• Loading External Classes with ApplicationDomain
• Save Memory When Reusing Bitmaps With the Same BitmapData
• ActionScript SWFs and Version Compatibility
• Use IEventDispatcher to type EventDispatcher objects
• How stage, root, and MainTimeline Fit Together
• Thinking “Outside Looking In” and not “Inside Looking Out”

Language Elements/Behavior and Syntax

• Class scope is now bound to class methods
• New Variable Types
• New Import Directive
• Type Casting and the as Operator
• Unique Class Variables
• The delete Keyword and Class Members
• Label Statements
• Commas in Shorthand Array Definitions
• Package Block
• Same-file Helper Classes
• Access Attributes
• The override Keyword
• Using prototype
• Similarly Named Instance and Static Properties
• super() Placement (Now Anywhere)
• is Operator (vs instanceof)
• Number() Conversion No Longer Interprets Octals
• Changes in typeof
• for..in and for each..in
• Default Values for Function Parameters
• Undetermined Number of Arguments With …(rest)
• arguments
• Support for Namespaces
• Namespaces: Name Qualifier Operator (::)
• dynamic is Not Inherited
• Prevent Overriding and Subclassing with final
• in Operator
• Constants
• include Directive
• Duplicate Variable Definitions
• Namespaces: use namespace Directive
• asfunction: Now event:
• No more random(); Use Math.random()
• Property Access and Downcasting (parent, root, etc.)

New Classes

• The Dictionary Class
• SimpleButton Instances
• Regular Expression (RegExp) Support
• EventDispatcher
• URLRequest for URL Strings
• XML vs. XMLDocument
• Timer Class
• ByteArray Class
• Animator class in AS3 (Flash CS3)
• Loading External SWFs with Loader (Preloading)
• Loading External Classes with ApplicationDomain

Regular Expressions

• Regular Expression (RegExp) Support
• RegExp: Email Validation

Proxy Class

• Proxy Class
• Proxy: getProperty and setProperty
• Proxy: callProperty
• Proxy: Property Enumeration (nextName(), nextValue(), and nextNameIndex())

XML

• Writing Inline XML
• XML vs. XMLDocument
• XML: @ Operator for Attributes
• XML: XML and XMLList
• XML: Children (.) and Decendants (..)
• XML: Removing Nodes

Events

• New MouseMove Behavior
• Detecting When the Mouse Leaves the Movie
• EventDispatcher
• Events and Event Types
• Calling Event Handlers without Events
• Render Event
• Event Propagation Support
• rollOver and rollOut vs. mouseOver and mouseOut
• Creating a mouseWithin Event
• mouseEnabled and Event Blocking
• mouseChildren with Event Propagation
• Cleaning Up Event Listeners
• Event Phases and Event Capturing
• Determining Event Phase
• Preventing Event Propagation
• Global Events
• Detecting a mouseUp Outside
• Event Capturing and mouseEnabled
• Overriding clone in Events
• Use IEventDispatcher to type EventDispatcher objects

Errors and Error Handling

• Runtime Errors; Error Class
• Errors: try..catch..finally and Exception Handling
• Errors: Asynchronous Exception Handling
• Errors: Referencing properties from a null reference

Display Objects (MovieClips)

• Graphics Object and the Drawing API
• Display Objects
• SimpleButton Instances
• Approach to Depth Sorting
• Determining Current Frame Label
• getBounds() vs getRect()
• duplicateMovieClip Replacement
• Creating graphics Copies
• DisplayObjectContainer contains()
• Detecting Addition to or Removal from Stage
• Adding an isPlaying Property to MovieClips
• getObjectsUnderPoint
• Loading External SWFs with Loader (Preloading)
• Flash CS3: Frame Navigation and Child Access
• Save Memory When Reusing Bitmaps With the Same BitmapData
• What removeMovieClip() becomes in ActionScript 3

Flash Authoring

• Flash 9: Timelines as Classes
• Flash 9: BitmapData and Bitmaps from the Library
• Flash 9: Display Object Variables and Instance Names
• Flash 9: Document Class
• Flash 9: Strict Mode
• Flash 9: Timeline navigation and code execution
• Flash 9: addFrameScript
• Flash CS3: Setting MovieClip Base Classes
• Flash CS3: Changing Function Behavior Across Frames
• Flash CS3: New Library BitmapData Instances
• Flash CS3: Frame Navigation and Child Access
• Flash CS3: Automatic Timeline Declarations
• Flash CS3: Component Classes

Additional Resources:

• Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3 (Without Learning Flex) – uses SDK for MXMLC
• Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3
• ActionScript 3 Language Reference
• ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 Migration Guide
• Adobe ActionScript Technology Center
• ActionScript 3 Overview
• ActionScript 3 Learning Tips
• ActionScript Cheetsheets and References
• Programming ActionScript 3 (PDF)
• Flash Player 9 Security (PDF)
• ActionScript 3 and AVM 2.0 Performance Tuning (PDF)

Samples:

• Flex 2 AS3 Samples
• Flash CS3 Samples

• contentType:String
• data:Object
• method:String
• requestHeaders:Array
• url:String

which relates to the URL itself (specified in the url property).

For example, when using navigateToURL() (flash.net.navigateToURL) (getURL() replacement), instead of passing a string of the URL to navigate to, you use a URLRequest instance.

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.adobe.com/”);
navigateToURL(request);

Source

String
strReplace – A function used for replacing portions of a string with a new one.
wordCount – Returns the amount of words in the argument.

is_str – Returns true if the argument is a string, or can be used as a string.
autoFormat – All sentences are started with a capital, all “I”s are capitalised and sentences can be spaced.

Array
arrIndexOf – A function used for finding the index of the first occurance of an object in an array.

arrLastIndexOf – A function used for finding the index of the last occurance of an object in an array.
remove – Removes the specified index element from an array.
shuffle – Randomises the contents of any array between the startIndex and endIndex indices.

MovieClip
createClassMovieClip – A function used for creating empty movie clips with subclass association.

_brightness – Property for setting brightness of a movieclip (like in the IDE). Value range from -100% to 100%.
_recordframerate – Records the approximate frame rate.
fadeOut – Fades a movie clip out of the stage, based on the fade speed.

Number/Math
numParity – A function that returns the parity of a number. In mathematics, parity refers to whether a number is odd or even.

factorial – A function that returns n! (factorial) from a positive integer or the amount of combinations possible from a set.
numDerive – A function for approximating the derivative of a function at a point.
numRoundTo – A function for rounding a decimal number to a precision.
addCommas – Converts the parameter to a string and formats the number value correctly with decmals where necessary.
ordinalise – Reads the numberparameter and converts it into an ordinalised String.

is_numeric – Returns true if the argument is a number.
distanceBetween – Calculates the distance between 2 points.

Sound
pause – Stops a playing sound at it’s current position and allows access to a variable newPosition which enables the sound to resume at it’s last position.

Color
setBrightness – Method for setting brightness of a Color object. Value range from -100% to 100%.

Object
_recordDownloadSpeed – Monitors how fast an Object is downloading

TextField
getAction – Returns an the type of modification (paste or cut) done to a text field.

Drawing Methods
drawStar – A function used to draw stars in a movie clip.

Miscellaneous
verifyEmail – Reads the address parameter to a string and checks that it is compliant to the typical “valid” email standards of today.
alertPopup – This creates a nice looking draggable popup.

Classes
com.Javascript.Request – URL query vars class.

com.centerObjects.centerEasing – Tells flash to keep content within a flash movie centered.
com.dragging.Dragger – This class is designed to move objects in a grid.

Code Snippets
Custom ContextMenu – A script that hides the original right-click menu’s playback & zoom functions and allows you to add your own.

Accordian Component with Child List Components – This code creates an accordion component with 3 list components as its children.
Display Current Frame – A movieclip that you can place anywhere in your flash movie that will automatically display the current frame.

ID3 2.0 tags, specifically 2.3 and 2.4. The following tables list the standard ID3 2.0 tags and
the type of content the tags represent. The Sound.id3 property provides access to these tags through
the format my_sound.id3.COMM, my_sound.id3.TIME, and so on. The first table describes tags that can be
accessed either through the ID3 2.0 property name or the Sound class property name.
The second table describes ID3 tags that are supported but do not have predefined properties in the Sound class.