indieas

Its been a while since I was working / improving the indieas library. But as I lately had a new idea to improve my workflow I realized, that i should clean up the library and fix the upload script again so that you can download the latest version again.

Thats now all fixed. So make sure you test out the latest revision.

Furthermore I give you small preview on what I’m working at the moment. My actual problem where Buttons. Yes, it sounds too simple – but i was never really satisfied with my solutions. I actually like the SimpleButtons with the framelabels – but there is no way to extend them or add a disabled state. So thats useless in 70% of my use. Thats why I came up with a solution where I easily can create a Button in Flash with frame labels but also can simply extend them to control animations by script.

So soon there will be a post about how I work with Buttons in Flash and Flash Builder.

I proudly announce the release of my modular framework now under the zLib license. I finally decided to change to a open source license so that all of you can use it. I also finished the documentation of the core elements and made an short movie about the main features of modular.

So I hope you can use it as I do in many of my projects…

Right now i am working on the next release of my modular framework. The main change is in the terminology as there were too many Module* names which made it a bit confusing. But there are also some nice new features like a clean Font registration and a new singleton flag to reuse modules instead of rebuilding them in every page. Its now also possible to use modular in your own application in its own container sprite.

If somebody can’t wait to see the new version you can contact my for a pre-release version. Otherwise I will announce here the new release. Stay tuned.

Please have a look at our new project that is online now: http://www.drucklive.ch.

You can order canvas and in a few days wallpapers of your own pictures. It is made with away3d for the 3d preview of the room and the modular framework for the website architecture.

I know there are so many different tweening engines out there and it makes really no sense program another one. But as I always had my one version from the sfug library I thought it would be the time to port that to the indieas library. Further more I not just copy it and adapted the package name I tried to improve it once more. So in the new version when you apply another tween on the same object it checks the tweened properties and takes over only the properties defined by the new tween and let the old tween running with the other properties. So no more flickering when to tweens are acting on the same target/property.

As always feel free to download the library: http://www.indieas.org/library/

Lately I was programming on a web art project which is now ready to see.

This image gives you an impression. To see more click the image.

In my current project I had to implement a bunch of the standard widgets or components. As you maybe already noticed by this entry I spent a bit more time to implement the widgets that I can use them in multiple projects. In the end I had the most common widgets like: Button, CheckBox, DropDown, Vertical- and HorizontalList, ScrollPane/Pane and TextArea.

The advantage of these widgets are:

• skin-able with flash like a flex component
• support for CSS
• small footprint
• usable in non-flex projects
• tight integration with modular

Check out the links section to download the indieas library.