ASTRA Aquarium: A Fun and Instructive Example Application

Posted in "Articles, Flash" at 12:51 pm on November 26, 2007 by Michael Hoch |

Aquarium screenshot We just completed the ASTRA Aquarium, a new example that uses all ASTRA 1.0 components (Tree, Menu, TabBar, AutoComplete, and Charts) in one fun application.

Aquarium shows how to integrate these components in a real application and how to customize them for special use. Definite highlights are the custom skins for TabBar and Tree, a custom CellRenderer for Tree featuring interaction and animation, and the integration of AutoComplete with Tree via ActionScript. Oh, and yes, we also put in the Charts component to display current statistics. Check out the details at developer.yahoo.com/flash (”Featured App” box on the top right), and we hope you’ll have fun with it!

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  1. There is a bug when you click a fish there is some flashing between layers

    Comment by akeem — November 26, 2007 #

  2. Fine, but it’s buggy when you go go in the add fish menu, see here a video with the little bug:

    http://screencast.com/t/eUepWcEvpZ

    Comment by Laurent — November 26, 2007 #

  3. It’s fixed, thanks for pointing it out. This apparently was a bug in the Flash pre-release / beta player.

    We don’t know exactly what caused the error in this version of the player, but we determined that giving the TabBars - which in our application appear on two different frames - unique names does fix the problem. Creating a very simple example did not allow us to reproduce the error though. This leads us to believe that it might be a race condition when switching frames.

    Comment by Michael Hoch — November 26, 2007 #

  4. hey, glad you’reback with no errors and I enjoyed this cute app.

    I especially liked the autocomplete - very nice.

    Comment by Simon — November 27, 2007 #

  5. Nice example of these components being use.

    Comment by Kirk Lewis — January 1, 2008 #

  6. This Aquarium is a great and funny application. Great guys!!

    Comment by Robert — January 17, 2008 #

  7. Crashed my comp the first time, updated flash and worked fine this time. Pretty cool little app.

    Comment by Chris — July 17, 2008 #

  8. LOL not a real but a really cute aquarium :)

    Comment by New Aquarium Tips Blog — November 2, 2008 #

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