General

Monday, 07 May 2007 19:50 Written by Erik Lembke

Are you "AS3 Ready"? Get an overview over the most important resources and libraries for the next generation Flash! The newest whitepapers, libraries, utilities and projects for your needs.

Whitepapers

Name	Description	Author
AS2 to AS3	Migration Cheat Sheet
ActionScript 3.0 PDF | JPG	Class Diagramm	Adobe Systems
ActionScript 3.0	Language Specification	Adobe Systems

Libraries

Name	Description	Author
ActionScript 3 Libraries	A set of free and open libraries... corelib, eBay, FlexUnit, Flickr, Mappr, Syndication library, Odeo, YouTube	Mike Potter
AS3 Crypto Library	As3 Crypto is a cryptography library written in Actionscript 3 that provides several common algorithms.	Metal Hurlant
AS3 Lightweight Remoting Framework	This project is motivated by the need for a simple yet robust framework for handling remoting calls.	Danny Patterson
Asql	Asql is a functional library for direct connections with Mysql, suitable for Flash CS3, Apollo and Flex 2.	Łukasz Błachowicz
FZip	FZip is an Actionscript 3 class library to load standard ZIP archives and extract/decompress contained files.	Claus Wahlers, Max Herkender
Papervision3D	High performance 3D engine for Flash 8 and Flash 9	Carlos Ulloa, John Grden, Ralph Hauwert
Yahoo! AS3 API Libraries	Yahoo! AS3 API libraries are a set of wrapper tools that facilitate access to Yahoo!'s Web APIs from Flex and Flash.	Yahoo!

Utilities

Name	Description	Author
as3converter	AS3 Converter is an ant task (or two) and a small collection of AS3 classes to aid porting an ActionScript2 project to ActionScript3.	Nico Brevin
FlashDevelop	Added Check AS3 Syntax command in RunCommand, Quick build support in AS3 & MXML files with the @mxmlc tag

Projects

Name	Description	Author
FC64	FC64 is an Open-Source Commodore 64 Emulator written in Actionscript 3 for Flash Player 9	Claus Wahlers

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