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Feb 08 2010
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KitchenSync Version 2.0 is now available!

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I’m very proud to announce that the second version of KitchenSync has arrived! What started as a labour of love about 3 years ago has finally gotten its first much needed upgrade. Just about everything in this version is newer and more streamlined. The entire system for greater simplicity and practical functionality.

This version will not be backwards compatible, however, there’s finally some Decent Documentation!!! There’s also a new blog devoted to KS.

GO GET IT NOW!

Here’s some of the new features. You can view all of them by checking out the change log.

  • Usability
    • REFACTORED all classes with usability and stability in mind.
    • UPDATED all ASDocs
    • ADDED several new methods in the TweenFactory for easy tween creation.
  • Synchronizer and Time
    • REFACTORED The way time is handled throughout.
    • ADDED ISynchronizerCore and example core classes. This allows advanced users to switch between different methods of timing (e.g. enterframe or timer based)
    • ADDED FrameRateUtil for getting instantaneous and averaged framerates of the system. The FrameRateView now makes use of this class and has more options.
  • Action Architecture
    • REFACTORED action classes and extracted several interfaces from them.
    • ADDED jumpToTime and jumpByTime functionality to actions.
    • ADDED Looping via a new group called KSLooper.
    • REMOVED complicated and rarely used action triggers from AbstractAction.
    • ADDED togglePause() method and progress variable to AbstractAction (for getting percentage complete of an action).
  • Tweens
    • CHANGED constructors in KSTween. Emphasis is now on using TweenFactory.
    • IMPROVED Object parser in TweenFactory
  • Action Groups
    • ADDED Syntactic sugar to the group constructors. using an array in the constructor for a parallel group adds a sequence and vice versa.
    • ADDED totalDuration to groups to show the duration of all child actions in a group.
    • ADDED KSRandomGroup.
    • REMOVED KSSteppedSequenceGroup because it seemed kinda useless.
  • Loading Actions
    • REFACTORED Loading actions. Now they’re much easier to use and more powerful.
    • ADDED KSLoadQueue for quickly creating a class to load files from the network in a batch.
    • ADDED the resultList property to the ILoaderAction interface so that you can quickly access the loaded files in a batch.
  • Misc
    • RENAMED several classes and reworked package structure
    • ADDED KSAsynchronousIteration for running processor-intensive for loops spaced out over a period of time so that they are essentially asynchronous.
    • FIXED several minor and major bugs.
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