Teoti Graphix, LLC

Hello,

It’s been since July since I have posted anything, that was due to the fact I have been working on some very large AIR projects, polishing up asblocks(ActionScript3 DOM parser framework) and another OpneSource AIR application that should be of interest to a lot of AS3 programmers that hate writing ASDoc documentation.

I know from google analytics there have been a lot of interest in Spark navigators, yes the skinnable kind. I wrote a blog post about a year or so ago called Spark navigators :: ViewStack – TabNavigator – Accordion. Read the post if you want images or more information.

Basically, I have decided to open source it because I am using it in a lot of my open source projects. The TabNavigator works great, one thing that is missing I think is proper keyboard support but that is on the list.

The libraries features to date include;

Components

• ViewStack
• TabNavigator
• TabBar
• TabButton
• Accordion, AccordionHeader

Skins

• ViewStackSkin
• TabNavigatorSkin
• TabBarSkin, TabTopSkin, TabBottomSkin, TabLeftSkin, TabRightSkin
• AccordionSkin, AccordionHeaderSkin
• SimpleBorderSkin

Layouts

• ViewStackLayout
• TabNavigatorSkinLayout
• HorizontalButtonBarLayout
• VerticalButtonBarLayout
• AccordionSkinLayout
• AccordionSkinLayoutAnimated

Major Features:

• Skinnable TabNavigator
• Multi-state close button functionality
• Cancelable CLOSE Event
• Top, right, bottom and left tabbar placement

Source Code:

GitHub ui.navigator library

Any bug finds appreciated, there is still much to do and consider this a beta release. I have not yet refactored and asdoced properly yet.

Mike

Hi,

This is in regard to my previous post that gained some interest, the Spark navigator framework.

I said around 2 weeks for an alpha release, this open source stuff doesn’t pay the bills and that framework is complicated. I have other projects that take priority over this and I have not had time to get the code to a point where I feel comfortable releasing it (focus issues, etc). Yes their are developers that feel their code is a representation of themselves.

For those that have been waiting for this, sorry but priorities come first and “just getting this out” so others can “maybe” use it for their own gain, well just doesn’t ignite my fire.

Free code is free and by no means free to the actual developer.

Update:

Tink has a navigator framework you should all check out:

http://www.tink.ws/blog/flex-4-navigator/

I haven’t looked much at it but, as he says in a comment “This leaves the Navigator itself open to being used as a ViewStack, Accordian, TabNavigator, etc. depending on the layout applied to the navigator.“.

Mike