Yahoo! ASTRA 1.2 Now Available
Yahoo! fired out a new update to the Yahoo! Astra libraries for Flash, Flex and ActionScript, ASTRA 1.2. This release includes updates to the Flash components, the removal of the Flex Maps hack from the Web APIs library (use the new Yahoo! Maps AS3 API instead), and the addition of the new Astra Utilities library.
ASTRA is Yahoo! ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed for ActionScript developers.
ASTRA 1.2 comes out with several important improved cmoponents, new layout containers for Flash CS3 for the RIA builders, new Astra Utilities library with some excellent non-component extras.
New Layout Containers added to the Flash Components:
- HBoxPane and VBoxPane - arrange children in a horizontal row or vertical column
- FlowPane - arranges its children using a left-to-right flow similar to a document
- TilePane - arranges its children inside a grid of tiled rectangles
- BorderPane - arranges its children by constraining them to certain positions, such as a top header, bottom footer, left and right sidebars, and a stretching center content area
New Utilities:
- Animation - lightweight tween engine with a simple API. Powers the animations in Charts and other Astra components
- Layout
- core infrastructure for adding layout containers to a UI
control framework
Improved existing components and libraries:
- The Charts for Flash CS3 update includes support for legends, many enhancements to LineSeries, and several adjustments to styles that allow more flexibility
- The MenuBar component fixed a bug with dataProvider resets and can now be explicitly sized rather than only fitting to the text size
- The TabBar component can also be explicitly resized and there’s a new property that controls focus and selection behavior
- The Yahoo! Maps Communication Kit for Flex has been removed from the Astra Web APIs package in favor of the official new ActionScript 3.0 API for Yahoo! Maps
- The Aquarium example on the Flash Developer Center has been updated to use the updated components
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