[COLOR=“Red”]EDIT:[/COLOR] It seems ultimante has made his own thread for this framework, so if anyone is following/subscribed to this thread you should now watch this new thread - Thanks
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Gaia Framework 2.0 - AS3/AS2 Front-End Flash Framework
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Gaia Framework - Front-end Flash Framework (Rapid Development / Prototyping)
Main Page | [URL=“http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/forum/index.php?board=11.0”]Documentation | [URL=“http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/downloads/update.html”]Download | [URL=“http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/screencasts/lesson1/”]Screencast | [URL=“http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/forum”]Forum | [URL=“http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/forum/index.php?topic=8.0”]FAQ | [URL=“http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/”]License | [URL=“http://www.stevensacks.net/gaia/”]Authors Site
What is Gaia?
Gaia is a front-end Flash Framework designed to dramatically reduce development time.
Gaia is targeted at anyone who develops Flash sites. It provides solutions to the challenges and repeated tasks we all face with front-end Flash site development, such as navigation, transitions, preloading, asset management, site structure and deep linking. It provides speed and flexibility in your workflow and a simple API that gives you access to its powerful features.
Most Flash frameworks are back-end frameworks, or require senior level coding experience to use. Gaia is different by being for front-end development, being easy enough to use that it’s accessible to a novice Flash developer, yet powerful enough for advanced coders to use without feeling limited.
Gaia is tightly focused on helping you do your job without getting in your way. It is flexible enough to enable you to work the way you like to work without forcing you to change your style. Whether you write everything in strictly-typed AS2 classes, hack AS1 on the timeline or anywhere in between, Gaia helps you get the job done.
Gaia is integrated with the popular SWFObject and [URL=“http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/”]SWFAddress javascript classes built right in for maximum compatibility right out of the gate.
A Few Interesting Facts - from the FAQ page
Q. How does Gaia save me time, exactly?
A. Glad you asked! Gaia comes with a panel that you use in Flash, like your Align, Transform and Library panels. The Gaia Framework panel does what is known as “Scaffolding” (popularized by Ruby On Rails) which builds a fully functional version of your site in seconds. The Gaia scaffolding engine and framework saves you not just hours, but days of development time!
Q. How big is Gaia?
The current release compiles to a svelte 17.5k.
Q. What version of Flash is Gaia for?
A. Gaia is written in AS2 and designed for Flash 8 and Flash CS3 and works on both Windows and OSX. Flash 7 is not supported.
Q. How much does Gaia cost?
A. Gaia is absolutely free and is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Q. Does Gaia support tracking?
Yes! SWFAddress has built-in Google Analytics support, and Gaia has a simplified universal tracking class for use with Omniture, Hitbox, Doubleclick, or any other javascript-based tracking solution you need.
Q. Is Gaia MTASC compliant?
A. Absolutely!
Looks pretty interesting folks. I have been keeping an eye on this since this thread here at Kirupa (for anyone interested).
Hopefully now that things are back on track with this project, development will evolve and more screencasts and advancements will be on the way! Nice work Steven!
EDIT: AS3 version is now available, read about it in the following thread.
Gaia Framework AS3 Beta
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