FA Actionscript 3 Library

FA-AS3 was created to shorten the creation and manipulation of Sprites. I found that I loved how you can chain methods with jQuery's and wanted to do something similar for AS3.

Instead of writing this

var mySprite:Sprite = new Sprite();

mySprite.x = 100;

mySprite.y = 100;

mySprite.alpha = 0.5;

addChild(mySprite);

mySprite.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick); // don't forget to add import statements!

mySprite.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onOver);

mySprite.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onOut);

Now you can do it like this

import fa.FASprite;

var faSprite:FASprite = new FASprite({x:100, y:100, alpha:0.5, childOf:this}).click(onClick).hover(onOver, onOut);

That's it! Sprite creation and manipulation just got 10x faster.

Effects

FA-AS3 supports effects and tweens by utilizing TweenMax

Add some TweenMax effects

faSprite.clickEffect(1, {scale:2}).hoverEffect(0.5, {alpha:1}, {alpha:0.5});

Store some tweens to be executed later

faSprite.addTween('moveRight', 1, {x:100});

Execute stored tween faSprite.tween('moveRight');

Props

It also supports a .p(Object) function (same as the constructor):

faSprite.p({rotationX:90});

A few interesting things to do with .p()

faSprite.p({children:[spriteA, spriteB], childOf:spriteC});

Even More

There are many more methods written to extend the core, just read the source to see what's hidden.

Requirements

You'll need a reference to TweenMax, otherwise you'll need to fork this and rip it out.

Contributors

• Caleb Wright

License

(The MIT License)

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