Ever written yourselves a big ol’ flash application? Yeah it is indeed great fun to do. But did you ever have to write a script reference for it afterwards? Then you must have been thinking ‘hell, they should build something which could generate this stuff for me automatically’.

Well… you’re right. And there are indeed some document generators out there. But always room for more, and even more important, always room for better ones :)

So the people at AriaWare started a small petition to get the people over at Naturaldocs to make sure their generator will support Actionscript also.

You can help out with the ’cause’ by dropping a simple email to the people over at Naturaldocs. Read more about how and to who at FlashAnt.

Any ‘well done’ application build for flash which will make my developing days more productive gets my blessing :) And trust me, if not already, the day will come when you wish you had an app like this :)

Macromedia has a neat article about the deconstruction of a rich internet application. In this case, the application is their ‘video wall project’. The article itself is probably dated, but nonetheless very interesting to read. So for people who are looking for examples and tips on how to get stuff done…. get going.

The article gives good insight about what comes in to play when developing a RIA and shares some used techniques which I for one came across also in the field.

A source download for people who need a place to start, any place, as we probably all did at one point.

When i first started building the more complicated applications with flash, i felt the need for a good example on how to start. I thought that if someone could show me his way of tackling the problems, i might just be able to find my own way to do the same things. Ways that i could understand and suited me in my everyday work.

After a lot of browsing, reading, asking questions to the guru’s etc. I finally came to something that worked…..well it worked for me in any case.

I refer to it myself as a ‘framework’ which i use over and over again, as a starting point for my projects. This helps me getting up to speed when my vision over the final result is still completely blank.

So in the hope this will help someone save some time browsing, reading, etc. I’ll put the framework online for anyone to see. Remember though, this is not ready to release quality stuff. It needs some major refactoring and is build with “if it works….don’t touch it anymore” in mind. It’ll still cost you some time and effort and might not even suit your needs at all. In that case, you’ll at least have something to look at on a rainy day :)

What it is:
- A set of flashzone classes i use for my projects
- A set of external classes which are used or can be used

What it can do:
- The framework will make preloading of multiple swfs a breeze (tx to qlod)
- Included is a standard preloader, but can be altered to your needs.
- It has standard support for Runtime configuring your flash app
- It has a more informative way of using the trace command by providing a LogManager

It has some other funky stuff built inside, but let’s keep that part of the surprise.

What it is not:
- A complete suite, which is usable for any project and does not need any modification
- The best (sometimes plain bad) written lines of code
- suitable for AS1 fanboys.

The classes within, are not the newest versions, but new enough. If i have the time i’ll post progress and my own findings of made mistakes.

Long story short, download it here and talk about the trashy code in the new setup forums :)