MarchingAntsSelect
From the site:
This is a simple ActionScript 3 implementation of the class marching ants selection marquee you find in applications such as Photoshop.
The class is based off this ActionScript 2 example here; http://www.nocircleno.com/experiments/selection_ants_proof/index.html, but adds in many more methods and is entirely self contained. Drawing the bitmaps for the marquee internally in the class.
Features
Either Fixed or user drawn marquee
Draggable or static fixed marque
Programatically changeable marquee colours
Programatically changeable marquee line thickness
Does not rely on library assets for marquee
http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/80
WindowBlur
Blurs a background (MovieClip or Sprite) behind a transparent window (MovieClip or Sprite). Based on Pixelfumes AS2 class.
From the site:
I was checking out a website yesterday when it suddenly reminded me of a Pixelfumes experiment I remembered seeing many moons ago. After finding it with a quick Google search, just for kicks, I decided to play around and update the idea to AS3.
http://blog.onebyonedesign.com/?p=81
as3xls
Read and write excel files in Flex.
From the site:
Some time ago I was working on a little project for which I wanted to read and write Excel files in Flex. I Googled hither and yon but sadly I could only find a sample someone tossed out there sans code. So, I put together a little package to read and write Excel files. So far it supports reading text, numbers, formulas, and dates from Excel version 2.x-2003 and writing text, numbers, and dates. Formulas also update to reflect changes in cells they reference.
The API is intended to be straightforward and easy to use. There are some samples to play with and the obligatory ASdocs.
http://code.google.com/p/as3xls/
SimpleScrollBar
From the site:
Here’s an AS3 class that creates a simple scroll bar. Set this as the Base Class for any movie clip. The container clip must have two movie clips named drag_mc and track_mc. These clips act as the dragger and track for the scroll bar
Add an event listener to call a handler when the scroll bar is dragged. SimpleScrollBar dispatches the ScrollBarEvent.UPDATE which includes the property scroll_value. This property holds a value from 0 to 1 representing the position of the dragger.
http://www.webdevils.com/?p=84
Color
From the site:
One small thing I’ve always found a bit handy with CSS in XHTML is the ability to type familiar names for colors rather than the hex value.
Unfortunately, Flash’s StyleSheet does not support color names at all and Flex’s StyleManager only supports the 16 basic VGA color names.
I decided to write a class that adds static properties for all of the color names defined by SVG 1.0 (The colors in SVG 1.0 include the X11 colors with the addition of gray/grey variants. X11 includes the 16 basic VGA, or HTML4, colors as well). This class also adds two static convenience methods for returning a Color* object by passing in the color name or hexadecimal color value.
http://www.digitalflipbook.com/archives/2008/06/color_name_clas.php
Scale9Mask
From the site:
I ran into another quirk with Flash today. I couldn’t get Flash to apply Scale9Grid correctly on sprites/movieclips that were being used as Masks. After searching for help it seems as though the two features are not compatible (please correct me if I am wrong). Therefore, I threw a class together this afternoon that creates a Rectangle with rounded corners that automatically scales according to the scale9Grid rules. The class allows you to use the rounded rectangle as a mask without having the corners distort when it scales.
http://blog.ickydime.com/2008/06/scale9grid-class-for-masking-in-as3.html
NpContextMenu
From the site:
The NpContextMenu Class is a fairly simple ActionScript 3 class for creating and interacting with Contextual Menus.
The class simply redispatches the ContextMenuEvent.MENU_ITEM_SELECT event to any parties interested in responding to menu events outside of the actual class. This allows for a little more flexibility with how events are handled and how the menu itself is set up. By using this approach the menu can be a a little more dynamic.
http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/103
FlashVarsUtil
Util class to access FlashVars in Flex. From the site:
…I would share a little Util class I wrote a while back to make your lives easier. It uses the [Mixin] tag to make sure variables are available before the application creation is complete.
http://blog.xsive.co.nz/archives/271
CronJob
From the site:
I wrote a cronjob class in actionscript 3 during my flight back to Lima from San Francisco. This could help you manage repetitive or single tasks in the future using a cron task syntax.
http://blog.funciton.com/en/2008/07/actionscript_3_cronjob_beta.html
QueueLoader - AS2
From the site:
I’ve written a helper class for loading and monitoring resources which is based upon an AS3 library called Queueloader located at Google Code. My version is written in AS2 and has the following features:
Individual monitoring
Overall queue monitoring
Image loading
SWF loading
MP3 loading