With this update, the uiColorPicker component has been added to the Standard Edition.

In addition, we have streamlined component instance alignment with the following:

(i) new childAlignX and childAlignY properties help to define a default alignment for child objects contained within the same container.

(ii) a new qualified value for alignX and alignY properties – setting the property to ALIGN.FILL will indicate that the object is expected to fill its whole allocated space (horizontally for alignX or vertically for alignY), and therefore alignment does not apply.

(iii) as a result of (ii), it is no longer necessary to define fillX and fillY properties (since ALIGN.FILL and other alignment values should be mutually exclusive).

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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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 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+.

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 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.

The AS3 API Reference is available at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/docs/api/

The SWF above is approximately 84KB (the theme assets are embedded in the SWF).

Availability
The new theme has been included in the distributions for both Aspire UI Lite Edition and Aspire UI Standard Edition (v1.3.3).

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 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.

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.

This is advantageous for the following reasons:

• the overall total payload (bytes to download over the network) is now reduced due to compression;
• only one network connection is required, instead of multiple simultaneous connections to the various PNG files;
• moving skin assets is now easier since you only need to move one file around;
• if embedding skin assets into the application SWF is preferred, this can now be done easily since you only need to embed one single file.

The benefits of using packaged themes will be especially visible when deploying to an environment where slow network connections are expected.

Included in the update is a tool for creating packaged themes. This tool, codenamed “Amber”, allows developers to select skin assets from a theme and pack them into one single binary file.

* For simplicity and cross-platform compatibility, “Amber” was created as a Flash Player 10 SWF. You can run the SWF either directly using Flash Player 10+, or via a web browser (if the web browser has Flash Player 10 plugin installed).

* “Amber” was compiled using the Aspire UI library with the “xp” theme embedded in the SWF.

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 (which is based off an old version of the library).

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

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

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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!

* 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+.

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 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.

The AS3 API Reference is available at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/docs/api/

You may post questions at
http://ghostwire.com/discuss/

The theme has been included in the distributions (v1.1.2) for both the Aspire UI Lite Edition and Aspire UI Standard Edition.

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 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 a trial version at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/download/

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:

uiWindow
A container that contains a title bar and a content area for its child. It can also optionally display a menu bar and a status bar.

uiDialog
A control used to display pop-up messages within a modal window. The dialog displays an image, a text message, and one or more buttons. It can also optionally display an input text field.

uiMenu / uiMenuBar
uiMenu is used to create and display pop-up menus that may contain as many levels of submenus as required. uiMenuBar is used to create horizontal, top-level menu bar similar to that seen in desktop applications.

uiCursors
A manager that implements the use of custom cursors. The custom cursors are rendered using PNG bitmap files.

uiFonts
A manager that implements the use of embedded fonts loaded into the application via external SWF files during run-time.

uiToolTips
A manager that implements the use of pop-up tool tips.

For more information on the Aspire UI library, please visit
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/

For API Reference and usage notes, please visit
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/docs/

A trial version of Aspire UI Lite Edition is available for download at
http://ghostwire.com/aspireui/download/