ASTRA Galore: New Flash and Flex Components

Posted in "Flash, Flex" at 3:42 pm on January 30, 2008 by Allen Rabinovich |

New Astra Components

To paraphrase Mr. Rogers, “It’s a wonderful day in the Flash neighborhood!”. There’s nothing make-believe about this day, though, so allow us to don our cardigans and fill you in. Our ASTRA library of components has just been updated with three new Flash components and seven (yeah, we are serious about this) new Flex components, as well as some important updates to the existing ones. Here’s the lowdown:

New Flash components:

  • AlertManager — a user interface component that creates alert windows and manages their queue.
  • AudioPlayback — a set of controls for audio playback.
  • MenuBar — a component that renders hierarchical data as a row of buttons with nested menus (using the Menu component)

On the Flex front, we have:

  • AutoCompleteManager is a component that manages a set of input controls, popping up suggestions when a user types into one of the fields. Instead of replacing TextInput fields with a specific AutoComplete control, you can simply point the manager to one or more TextInputs, and you’ll get a slick pop-up or auto-fill interaction.
  • Color Pickers:
    • ColorPlaneAndSliderPicker is a user interface component that allows the user to pick a color value. It combines a one-dimensional color slider with a two-dimensional color plane.
    • ColorSliderPicker is a user interface component for Flex that allows the user to pick a color value. It combines a set of sliders where each slider represents a component of a colorspace. For example, a ColorSliderPicker displaying an RGB color includes a red slider, a green slider, and a blue slider.
    • DropDownColorPicker is a user interface component for Flex that allows the user to pick a color value. Similar to the standard Flex ColorPicker control, the DropDownColorPicker also gives the developer the ability to completely change the dropdown control to give the user a variety of color views.
  • IPv4AddressInput is a user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input an Internet Protocol version 4 address. This control includes a field for each separate byte and full keyboard navigation.
  • TimeInput is a user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input a time value. This control include fields for hours, minutes, seconds, and AM/PM. Styling options allow the time to be presented in 12- or 24-hour formats.
  • TimeStepper is a user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input a time value. This control include fields for hours, minutes, seconds, and AM/PM. Styling options allow the time to be presented in 12- or 24-hour formats. Up and down buttons allow the user to increase or decrease the currently selected field.

Among updates to the existing components:

  • The Tree component has been updated with new functionality that makes it much easier to change node icons and control branch nodes (see examples).
  • The Charts component now has animation, some adjustments to the PieChart live preview, and several bug fixes.

Head right over to the Flash Developer Center to read the documentation, check out the examples, and download the new builds. Don’t forget to tell us what you’ve done with all of this goodness in the ydn-flash group. King Friday is waiting!

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  1. […] for you to enjoy at the end of January. I and the rest of the Flash Platform team at Yahoo! have just pushed live version 1.1 of the Yahoo! Astra Library. This version comes to you in two major […]

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  2. […] former peeps over at Yahoo just released 10 more components, 3 Flash and 5 Flex components. The also fixed some of the bugs […]

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  4. I’ve detected a bug in Alert component. When a Alert is active the rest in the movie are disable to button click but no to pass the focus with Tab and clic with space key.

    Comment by Freddy — January 31, 2008 #

  5. Can you suggest some web-sites, that are using this components?

    Comment by Alexey — February 1, 2008 #

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  7. Hi Freddy,
    Could I get a little clarification about the bug you are experiencing with the Alert component? Does the alert remain on the screen while you tab through your application or does the alert box disappear when you tab and click the space key?

    Thanks,
    Tripp

    Comment by Tripp Bridges — February 1, 2008 #

  8. Ok… sorry for my english…
    http://www.canariasnetworks.com/yahooAlert/index.html .. if you select the text in the alert and next press Tab key the focus pass to the button in the background… then if you press space key create another alert.

    Comment by Freddy — February 1, 2008 #

  9. Freddy,
    I see what you are talking about now. We will take care of this next week in a bug fix release.

    Thanks,
    Tripp

    Comment by Tripp Bridges — February 1, 2008 #

  10. Thank you for a really great job…. maybe a calendar component?? :-) thanks again.

    Comment by Freddy — February 1, 2008 #

  11. It would be just great if Yahoo instead .fla files would release set of AS3 files, so users won’t be limited with Flex and Flash CS3, but also can use frameworks like AsWing (www.aswing.org).

    I would jump imideatelly into coding somethign with yahoo components, but since i code with AsWing instead ugly Flex, there is no use for me… I need AS3 classes, not .fla file that i can’t use…

    Comment by Skitsanos — February 2, 2008 #

  12. It would be just great if Yahoo instead .fla files would release set of AS3 files, so users won’t be limited with Flex and Flash CS3, but also can use frameworks like AsWing (www.aswing.org).

    We do release all the functional parts of the components as ActionScript files. However, in addition to functionality, components also have graphic resources that need to be stored and easily modified by designers. That’s why we include FLA files. Without them, the designer-developer workflow is a nightmare.

    If you’d like to use our components with a different framework, it would take a bit more work to produce the corresponding graphic resources, but you can still use all of the functionality in the AS files we provide, and modify them as you please.

    Comment by Allen Rabinovich — February 2, 2008 #

  13. Nice, then i will update Aswing community. Thanks for the reply.

    Comment by Skitsanos — February 3, 2008 #

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  15. […] of this stuff is available now under a BSD-style license. Check out the official announcement or get straight to the goodies at the Astra Component Library section of the Yahoo! Developer […]

    Pingback by Dynamic Flash » Yahoo! Astra component library 1.1 released — February 6, 2008 #

  16. […] month, we released version 1.1 of the Yahoo! ASTRA libraries for Flash and Flex. Since then, we’ve received a ton of great feedback that has led to some important bug fixes […]

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  17. […] month Yahoo! released version 1.1 of Yahoo! ASTRA libraries for Flash and Flex. Based on community feedback, they revised it and came […]

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  18. I noticed the Tree component doesn’t appear to be keyboard accessible, has accessibility been considered in these components?

    In my poking around, I found that on the first two TabBar examples, pressing TAB causes an error.

    Comment by Tom H — February 21, 2008 #

  19. […] Actionscript, Adobe, Components, Downloads, Flash, News, Resources Last month Yahoo! released version 1.1 of Yahoo! ASTRA libraries for Flash and Flex. Based on community feedback, they revised it and came […]

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  21. Yahoo Flash Charts Component is great. But I found this component
    can NOT deal with number includes comma(,).

    For example: it can show 1124, can’t show 1,124

    What should I do to fix this problem? Thanks.

    Comment by Digo — March 5, 2008 #

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  24. […] know you’re working with and enjoying the Flash components that we released in ASTRA 1.1 back in January. Over on the ydn_flash mailing list, we’ve been answering questions about the […]

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  25. Looks very nice.
    Thanks for sharing.

    Comment by anarsizm — May 21, 2008 #

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