Archive for the ‘AS3’ Category

Introducing KitchenSync – an open-source animation library for AS3

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008


After about 6 months in development, I’m very proud to announce the release of KitchenSync, a multi-purpose tool written in ActionScript 3.0 for doing tween based animations and timing of functions and much more. The project is open-source under the GNU LGPL and hosted at Google Code. Please take a moment to check it out and feel free to write to me with questions, comments or suggestions for improvement!

KitchenSync is more than an animation library

KitchenSync is more than an animation library. Tweens are a major part of KitchenSync but that is not the end. It also allows you to sequence sounds, functions, and event dispatches among other actions. The framework is open-ended allowing you to come up with new ways to work with the virtual timeline.

KitchenSync was designed with developers in mind

KitchenSync was designed for developers who want a smart way to handle animation or other time-based functionality with code. Written from the ground up in ActionScript 3.0, KitchenSync relies on smart object-oriented architecture rather than complicated shorthand. It includes a number of features and shortcuts, such as the clone() method, that save effort for developers. KitchenSync makes extensive use of events and informative runtime errors and is quite flexible when it comes to extending the functionality.

KitchenSync aims to…

  • offer a well-architected, extensible framework for working with time-based animations and events.
  • take advantage of the power of ActionScript 3.0 while using OOP best practices and design patterns and without requiring the Flex framework.
  • respond to the needs of developers with a rich set of features.
  • be a full-featured library for animation and timeline based actions.

Links

No children on the stage – a confusing Flash CS3 display list issue

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Pimp my ‘clipse – a list of must-have Eclipse plug-ins for Flex/Flash Development

Monday, December 17th, 2007

New Releases on Adobe Labs

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Weak vs Strong References in AS3

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Preventing Out-of-memory errors in Eclipse / FlexBuilder

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Building and Running AS3 Bible Examples

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Skrypt Kidz 3000 – Episode 2 – Flash Developers VS. Flash Designers

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

SWFObject 2.0 beta

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Skrypt Kidz 3000 Podcast

Monday, November 19th, 2007