I’ve been slowly building up a toolbox of AS3 libraries, and I’ve decided to move my open-source code from sourceforge to googlecode. The as2 libs have not yet moved, but you can check out my latest work at http://bumpslide.googlecode.com/.

Old favorites including FTween, GridLayout, and “Model” (now BindableModel) have all been refactored and updated for AS3. I’ve been using this code in production for awhile now, and they all warrant separate blog posts. For now, just start digging through the code, and let me know if you have any questions.

The AS3 version of ModestMaps has finally been released. ModestMaps for AS3 allows you to create maps in Flash that load tiles from Google Maps, Yahoo, Virtual Earth or other custom tile providers. I used this library recently to build Platial’s new Frappr widget.

This release includes some changes that I contributed to the project including a new approach to marker event management. There is also a new Flash CS3 sample I created to demonstrate these changes.

Download the tarball or checkout directly from SVN.

The Flickr gallery demo from last night’s presentation is now online. Thanks to all who attended.

Demo: PureMVC Flash Gallery Demo

Source: puremvc_cs3_gallery_src.zip

Presentation: puremvc_bumpslide.ppt.zip

Just a reminder. I will be presenting a session on the PureMVC framework for ActionScript this Tuesday as part of the Goto+Play speaker series.

PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications in ActionScript 3 (Flash and Flex), based upon the classic Model-View-Controller design meta-pattern. This presentation will provide an overview of PureMVC as well as a look at current best practices for day-to-day development as we walk through a sample application built with Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.

Introduction to PureMVC
presented by David Knape, http://bumpslide.com/

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
doors open at 6, meeting at 6:30
(Old Town Pizza to follow?)

Fashionbuddha Studio
123 NW 2nd Ave, Suite 206
Portland, OR 97209
T: 503-490-4787

More info at gotoandplay.net

Update: Demo, source, and slides now available here. Also, the Acrobat Connect recording can be found here.

GridLayout (com.bumpslide.util.GridLayout) is a class I originally created to simply manage the attachment and positioning of a series of MovieClips. I began using it to build all my data grids, thumbnail lists, and various types of menus. Recently, I have refactored it to support scrolling and/or paging via an index offset as well as paged data loading via the AS2 DataProvider API. The end result is an all purpose utility that can be used to build everything from simple menus to custom data grids. This post is just a quick introduction to using the code. Parts 2, 3, and 4 (to come) will go into more details about scrolling and data loading as well as alternative uses of the GridLayout class.

You can get a sneak peak at the examples here.
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