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BananaTree Design Releases "Swing Package for ActionScript" (SPAS 3.0) as Open Source

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:00:00 CST

Core Open Source SPAS 3.0 Technologies Now Available for Rich Internet, Desktop and Mobile Applications

ActionScript 3.0 Best Practices: Using the EventCollector Class

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:30:00 CDT

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken: 20 minutes
Description: In this article we will learn how to use the EventCollector class, for easily preventing memory leaks due to events management in ActionScript 3.0.

Creating Full Flash Websites with SPAS 3.0: Part 1

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:00:00 CST

Difficulty: Advanced

Time taken: 15 minutes

Description: In this first article of the series, we will discuss how to structure your Flash Application in order to have maximum flexibility to deploy an HTML-like Website.

SPAS 3.0 is going Open Source

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:30:00 CDT

The Swing Package for ActionScript provides a set of "lightweight" classes for building Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and graphic user interfaces (GUI) with the Flash Platform.

Using integrated animation properties in SPAS 3.0

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:30:00 CDT

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken: 15 minutes
Summary: In this tutorial, we will create a basic effect that can fast be adapted to all kind of applications, such as widgets or tool palettes.
The effect consists in an autonomous “popup” window which is able to show or hide its content when the user clicks on its title bar.

Creating AIR widgets using SPAS 3.0 and Flash

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT

In this tutorial we will see how it is easy to create AIR widgets using SPAS 3.0 "uiobjects" and the Flash IDE.

Taken time: 30 min.
Difficulty: intermediate

Creating custom controls with SPAS 3.0

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:30:00 CST

In this tutorial we will discover the SPAS 3.0 base API that you must implement to create controls. We won't see how to implement the look and feel process, this will be addressed in a future tutorial.

- taken time: 30 min.
- level: intermediate
- difficulty: easy

Creating widgets fast and easily with SPAS 3.0

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:00:00 CST

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken:�20 minutes
Description: In this tutorial we will learn how to make a simple Celsius to Fahrenheit degree converter with less than 30 lines of code. Then, we'll see how to integrate it into a Flash application directly from the Flash CS3 main timeline.