As i’ve been hinting at for months i’ve been working on a presentation system for flash. I’m very close to rolling my first project using the system and having extrapolated what is part of the framework from what is custom development for the project in question is very close to complete you should expect that i’ll have more details related to the effort posted soon.
In the meantime, here’s a short overview of what is included in the system:
- External Font and Styling
- Page description templating
- Navigation and deeplinking support (using swfaddress, swfobject and swffit)
- Animation attributes (using Tweener)
- TextField support
- Loader Extensions
- Sound Extensions
- Broadcaster implementation
- Preloading and asset management
- IPreloader, IComponent, DComponent and additional support classes for building custom controls for use in the presentation system
- Focus on separation of UI and content for easy modification without recompilation of the source (for enhanced stability and reductions of QA cycles required to build a AS3 based Flash site)
This project is at a production ready state, but at this point i would consider the engine at a version 1 RC state. I expect that over the next few months there will be enhancements that will substantially change the core functionality but not the defined templating format or external asset managment requirements.
Keep an eye on this site for more information soon.
