Introducing flashflowfactory
I am a bit proud to present you my first own framework: flashflowfactory.
This mini-framework for actionscript 3 helps you to easily setup a flash website. flashflowfactory makes use of SWFAddress for deeplinking and TweenLite for transitions. When you need to create small/medium websites with deeplinking and basic transitions, flashflowfactory could help you develop faster. I mostly used it for custom projects like viral websites. The best of flashflowfactory is its simplicity (no need to learn hard design-patterns, it is really straight-forward if you know the basics). You don’t have to develop a page setup or start from scratch, but keep the freedom to build the site in your style.
Check it out now:
– flashflowfactory.stroep.nl
– Googlecode project
– Documentation / Simple how-to
Features
- Global page creation
- Deeplinking made easy: it’s included and no need to worry about it anymore
- Page class with transition settings and states
- Transitions between pages
- Currently 4 transitions included
- Creating your own transitions is possible. This keeps your freedom of expression and makes it usable for every custom project.
- Global page settings and these settings can be overrided on page level
- Transition in/out between page
- Easing/time customizable
- Alignment options
- Alternative navigation (button) system
- Really easy linking
- Automatic states
- Grouping aka easy active state
- Global Event system
- Listen to event from any point in your application
- Automatic Event removal system
Example setup code
var pageFactory:PageFactory = new PageFactory();
// add your pages here: url, classReference, title
pageFactory.add( “/home”, HomePageVC, “Welcome!” );
pageFactory.add( “/contact”, ContactPageVC, “Contact us” );
pageFactory.add( “/info”, InfoPageVC, “About us” );
// optional page name, which indicates where to start
pageFactory.defaultPageName = “/home”;
// add default page settings, can also be overridden from the Page class
pageFactory.defaultSettings = new PageSettings(
new SlideTransition(), // transition (there are more transitions + you can easily create your own)
Elastic.easeOut, // easing of the in-transition
Strong.easeIn, // easing of the out-transition
1, // duration of the in-transition
0.7, // duration of the out-transition
Alignment.MIDDLE_CENTER, // alignment of the page on the stage
Alignment.LEFT_TOP // centerpoint position of the page
);
// add page holder to stage
addChild( pageFactory.view );
// load first page
pageFactory.init();
This is the first release. The framework is still under development, and I really need some feedback. Some example projects will follow soon.
Looks nice already!
Funny to see that almost every Developer starts building their own framework at some time 🙂
And after a while they fall back on something existing and start customizing that to their own need.
I’ve been using http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/ for a while now (same basic principles as your framework, you should take a look at it if you haven’t already). And we have customized and extended the ‘framework’ with stuff we use for all projects and integrated it with the http://code.google.com/p/templelibrary/.
Hi Narie,
Thanks for your reply. You are right there are lots of developers creating own systems. I think it is part of making personal progression, so it must be a good thing 🙂 I have seen Gaia, it has really great features and is well-supported and up-to-date. For now I think it is just fun to create + useful for the way I work.
BTW do you guys get money for promoting the templelib? 😛 Your colleague were also pointing to this lib in some other posts 🙂
No we don’t get any money for it, we’re just the proud owners! 😉
And if we see people try something that can be done with the Temple, we want to point that out to make their life easier 🙂
Hi! I think this looks great. More lightweight than Gaia, which I haven’t been using because of all the extra files. I look forward to checking it out.