We have added a new licensing option for the Aspire UI Components (Flash ActionScript 3.0) toolkit. For teams with more than 15 developers, this option translates to significant savings.

A Site License grants all developers located at the same site, working for the same organization, the rights to use the toolkit, royalty-free. It doesn’t matter how many developers work at the site, it doesn’t matter how many projects the developers will be using the toolkit in, and it doesn’t matter how many copies of your applications get distributed.

A “Site” is defined as a single location with the same mailing address. In other words, the developers must work in the same country, city, building, and on the same floor. This entitlement extends to temporary and freelance developers working at the site, as long as they remained engaged by your organization.

Aspire UI Components
Aspire UI is a library of Actionscript 3.0 (AS3) classes for building flexible and lightweight UI elements in Adobe Flash applications. Key features of the components include easy skinning using PNG image files, automatic tab focus ordering, CSS text styles, and layout management.

This is a pure AS3 library with no dependency on the Flex framework.

For more information, please click here.

You may experiment with the various features by downloading the trial version.

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The Trial Version of the Aspire UI library has been updated to v1.3.4 and is now available for download at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/download/

* The trial version is strictly for evaluation purposes.

* Compiled SWFs will stop working after a few minutes.

* This trial version is based off Aspire UI Standard Edition v1.3.4.

* Includes the assets for “classic”, “graylic” and “xp” themes.

* Aspire UI is an ActionScript 3.0 library – compiled SWFs must target Flash Player 9+.

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A new bonus theme, emulating the look of Windows Vista OS, has been added to the Aspire UI components library. Below is a live demo (click on the three buttons to bring up windows):

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The Aspire UI library, for pure ActionScript 3 development, has been updated to version 1.3 (changelog).

Among the many improvements, the most important is implementing support for the use of packaged themes. The Aspire UI library uses external PNG images for component skinning, which means that skin assets can be easily modified by theme designers using any image editor (capable of exporting to the PNG format).

With the Aspire UI Version 1.3 Update, the skinning work flow has been further enhanced by allowing developers to optionally use packaged themes.

It is now possible to compress skin assets from a theme folder, along with the “rules.xml” file, into one single binary file.

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It’s Halloween! Over this weekend, GhostWire Studios is knocking US$30 off the Aspire UI components library.

Aspire UI Lite Edition
US$49 (usual price US$79)

Aspire UI Standard Edition
US$99 (usual price US$129)

http://ghostwire.com/go/buy

Aspire UI Components
Aspire UI is a library of Actionscript 3.0 (AS3) classes for building flexible and lightweight UI elements in Adobe Flash applications. Key features of the components include easy skinning using PNG image files, automatic tab focus ordering, CSS text styles, and layout management. This is a pure AS3 library with no dependency on the Flex framework.

You may experiment with the various features by downloading the trial version.

Cheers!

An updated Trial Version of the Aspire UI library is now available for download at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/download/

* This trial version is strictly for evaluation purposes.

* You may not use the trial to develop and deploy applications.

* Compiled SWFs will stop working after a few minutes.

* This trial version is based off Aspire UI Standard Edition v1.2.1 (the previous trial was based off Aspire UI Lite Edition v1.0.9).

* The previous trial version limits execution to debug versions of the Flash Player; this is no longer the case with this updated version.

* Aspire UI is an ActionScript 3.0 library – compiled SWFs must target Flash Player 9+.

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A new theme has been added to the Aspire UI library. Below is a screen shot of the theme in use:

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GhostWire Studios is pleased to announce the release of Aspire UI Components Standard Edition.

Aspire UI is a library of Actionscript 3.0 (AS3) classes for building flexible and lightweight UI elements in Adobe Flash applications. Key features include automatic tab focus ordering, CSS text styles, layout management, and easy skinning using external PNG bitmap files.

Aspire UI Standard Edition includes all the classes from Aspire UI Lite Edition (previously released as Aspire UI Components Set 1) and the following new components:

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Aspire UI Components Set 1 is now available for licensing.

Aspire UI, developed by GhostWire Studios, is a library of Actionscript 3.0 (AS3) classes for building flexible and lightweight UI elements in Adobe Flash applications. Key features include automatic tab focus ordering, CSS text styles, layout management, and easy skinning using external PNG bitmap files.

A trial version of Aspire UI Components Set 1 is available for download at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/download/

API Reference is available at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/docs/api/

For more information, please visit
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/