Open Source ActionScript Frameworks for Mac

Apache Flex SDK is the open-source software development kit maintained by the Apache Software Foundation for building applications using Adobe’s Flex framework—primarily targeting Flash runtime and AIR for rich internet applications. The Apache Flex SDK defaults to using the Adobe Flash Player 11.1. The SDK can be used with Flash Player versions 10.2 and up. The Apache Flex SDK uses third-party code that will be downloaded as part of the build. In addition, you can choose to download optional third-party code if you would like to take advantage of the features offered, and you agree to the license terms.

Starling is an open-source 2D framework for ActionScript developers that leverages GPU acceleration via Adobe's Stage3D API to create smooth, high-performance games and applications across desktop and mobile platforms. It mimics the traditional Flash display list while dramatically improving performance, making it a popular choice for Flash developers transitioning into more efficient, hardware-accelerated environments.

asLocalConnect is the better way for LocalConnection in ActionScript 2 / ActionScript 3. Features: Heartbeat, Sychronisation, onLoad / onUnload Event Handler, Broadcast, LocalConenct Channels and other nice Features.

The ServeBox Foundry is an ActionScript 3 / Java framework designed for Flex 3 / Flex 4 applications development. For flex4 use the new version 3.0.0-beta. Its design is based on several design patterns, and includes tools built to resolve some of th

- fw.linq: Linq To Objects - fw.reflection: Reflection on AS3 classes - fw.queues: Program async - synchronous style - fw.events: Eventdispatching made easy (C# style) - fw.serialization: Serialize EVERY instance to xml and back ... and much more.

A Flash ActionScript 2.0 Rich Internet Application library for the development of maintainable, multi-movie, event based interactive applications. Provides practical, reusable, pattern-based solutions for common challenges in Flash applications.

PHP Web development FrameWork. Main features: dynamic classes, DB abstraction, template engine, modularity, simplicity

AsUnit is the only open-source unit test framework that supports Flash Players 6, 7, 8 and 9.

A Macromedia Flash ActionScript 2.0 framework for developing robust, stable, secure, and portable Flash-based applications. PHP and other technologies are used to extend Flash beyond the browser.

A proven and powerful open source framework for rapid application development in Adobe Flash 9 and AIR using ActionScript 3.0.

Bonfire is an open-source ActionScript 3 framework focused on creating small to large scale applications for creative/advertising means.

A Flash UI Framework using the Adobe drawing APIs to create everything. All UI objects can be skin.

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EnFlash is an ActionScript Application Framework that brings new possibilities to the Flash Player Platform. It provides a set of visual components, utility classes and data structures that ease the development of sophisticated cross platform application

The Event class is an event manager for Macromedia Flash in ActionScript 2, that supports listeners. It is suitable for code-controlled animation that is time-based, eg intros, transitions.

FUnit is the first generation xUnit testing tool to leverage the custom metadata capabilities of the Flex mxmlc compiler. The tag-based attribute model of FUnit makes it the most intuitive unit-testing framework ever created for the Flex platform.

FlashDoctors is an open source collection of ActionScript classes. The initial release includes a dependency injection implementation named Syringe, a command infrastructure named Reflex, and some utility and error classes.

FlexB is a series of classes for mapping between XML documents and ActionScript classes without the use of XSD files. It also provides classes for web services which also map XML documents to ActionScript classes.

FlexUnit is an open-source unit testing framework for Flex and ActionScript 3, akin to JUnit, providing both functionality for automated testing and a graphical test runner. Support for Flex or ActionScript 3, mark tests with Metadata, async testing support. Exception handling, theories, datapoints and assumptions. The code for FlexUnit can be found on Apache Git. Metadata annotations for test case definitions.

Flicc is an Mxml based Dependency Injection framework for Flex. Flicc allows you to define objects and their dependencies using constants to provide more compile-time checking, configure view components and quickly write domain-specific injection tags.

Flixel Power Tools is a plug-in suite for the Flixel engine (version 2.5+) that adds many auxiliary utilities, effects, and helper components to aid in developing 2D games with AS3. It includes visual effects, control utilities, math/utility extensions, UI enhancements, and more. It’s designed to be dropped into a Flixel project to give you extra tools beyond the core engine. The Flixel Power Tools come with a comprehensive Test Suite. Use it to visually see the tools in action, and then learn from the source code and comments within. Documentation is also provided for the classes. AS3 IDEs such as FlashDevelop will provide context-sensitive help for all classes and functions in the Flixel Power Tools.

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The Hotpot Framework implements parts of the OSGi Core Specification in ActionScript 3. The code is mostly ported from Eclipse Equinox and Apache Felix. It was programmed as part of a thesis and will not developed any further.

The Javascript Sound Kit is a wrapper around the ActionScript Sound Object, it makes it possible to use the Sound Object in Javascript the same way you do it in ActionScript.

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