Project Hiddenwood
Project Hiddenwood where developed as the User Interface and and is the kit behind the Openbox Project, it's written in pure Actionscript 3 and the libary focuses on a extensible MVC pattern and is heavily based on delegation and interfaces which provides a great flexibility compared to other libraries/frameworks.
The library is written in pure ActionScript 3.0 against the Flash 10.1 runtime.
Note: Further development of this project have been abandoned. This due to instable future of the flash player as a platform.
- Contains wrappers (
WebStorage,WebFileandUser) for some commands in the collab (php) backend. - Resource Management, with a uniform type lookup and a internal clipboard class
UIPasteboard. - No Dependencies, the library stands on it's own legs.
- More.. more.. So much that there is no way to writting them here.
Hiddenwood Highlights
The Project Hiddenwood provides a basic set of views and components. All views inherits from the UIView class, which provides a base for managing content displayed on screen, to ensure minimal performance usage a special but simple drawing cycle is implemented. Among with many other classes in the Core UI you find UIScrollView which is a advanced view for scrolling and zooming content.
The library has it's own drag-and-drop api named UIDragging which together with UIPasteboard provides a interface for dragging multiple items and it's data internally between views, modules and applications. The user experience have been taken into account when designing this api, and modern features for inline destination preview, and easing for the dragging itself with a slide back animation alternative if the drop where rejected by the destination.
The Project Hiddenwood provides classes for developing document based applications, the UIDocument which is base to all document's data model from which you should subclass for fit your document's specifications. Together with UIUndoManager a basic undo and redo features can easily be accomplished.
The UIScriptView class is the Project Hiddenwood's equivalent of the code editor found inside the WordPress platform. UIScriptEditor supports tab formatting and more features to come, like syntax highlighting API and code snippet injection.
The UIPagingView is a card-based navigation view, the component dynamically renders the page cells, much like the UITableView those cells can be reused for minimal memory usage. This component is currently in a experimental stage.
The UIVideoView is a MVC based video component that will integrate with Youtube and regular streaming but also support custom Flash Media Server integration without a major code base change.
A experimental projects to intergrate a Command-line component. The console package contains a basic interface for command-line input and organizing commands, the principal classes is Console a central piece of code that provides a arguments extraction and much more and the IConsoleCommand which is a abstract interface for commands to run with the Console class.
Develop multi-language application by loading external strings, the LocalizedStrings class provides a resource of strings which together with printf() built in provides means for creating dynamic content.
Images and in this case icons are far more recognized by the human brain than text, with ICNS.decode() and ICO.decode() you can now decode files of the most common icon types on todays operative systems into a resource of BitmapData to use dynamically within your project. Not enough? with ICNS.encode() and ICO.encode() you can no export BitmapData resources to a binary output. These classes are found with their own package at se.raweden.types.
A dynamic runtime requiers external data. Project Hiddenwood provides the RemoteMessage for making calls to remote backend, for example: collab (php) and amfphp.
A common need for developers is to trace their steps, the Core Common framework provides this feature with a backend class Logger which organizes and stores output made with built in log() method at runtime. A abstract interface IConsoleOutput is provided for readers and visual outputs.
The WebFile class is wrapper for managing remotely located files asynchronous on the Collab (php) platform.
The WebStorage class provides a storage where application's can store preferences and also properties which represents the application current state. With user authentication these properties may also be stored in the cloud to which makes the application state and preferences restorable on any device. The transfer of this data is Incremental, and only handles the properties that have been changed, developed as wrapper for commands in the Collab (php) platform.
- Add support for customization with use of
BitmapDataandUIImagewith Scale9 as skin for almost all UI components. - Replace All text renders with Flash Text Engine.
- Rebuild GridView component.
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