What is AS-HIVE?
AS-HIVE allows developers to rapidly build applications and games that rely on state, event, and load management of external media files.
We'd like to foster a collective of creative people who design and develop primarily using Adobe's Flash. We encourage input and participation from all ranges of people who code in Actionscript.
Hard core developers may be interested to know that AS-HIVE is built on a state-based MVC framework but you don't have to be a hard core developer to use it.
Intermediate developers who don't wish to advance the framework can try the samples so that one can see how to save time and energy allowing AS-HIVE to handle loading your external assets like xml, pngs, flvs and mp3s. AS-HIVE also helps you animate screens by creating sequences that build up and tear down before moving to the next state.
By integrating other open source projects like Tweener and Papervision3D, AS-HIVE offers a robust and reliable mechanism for manipulating 2D and 3D content allowing the developer to focus on architecture and flow.
How do I learn about AS-HIVE?
The best way to learn HIVE is to ask a lot of questions and join our discussion group.
How do I get AS-HIVE?
Wiki Watch
Aug 20, 2009
new Union and asset loading demo on the sample v3 page.
Aug 11, 2009
There is a new swfaddress sample demonstrating how it can be used with HIVE for deep linking.
New Examples: 1) broadcasting onEnterFrame events from your Main to States and 2) how use the same graphic for multiple sprite (Dec 19/2007)
Blog News
Feb 15, 2009
Jovan has launched buckup.ca and is working on some cool new features within his branch which we hope to bring into the 0.3 release later this spring.
Although we're big fans of Tweener, we're also contemplating opening the LayoutManager up to other tween libraries like Tweenlite, Tweensy, and gTween so that they work like other plug-ins and can choose which ever Tween library you like best; possibly even mix and match.
Jan 19, 2009
Peter is working on telnet project. Check out flashterm. Read his blog post
Jan 15, 2009
spring cleaning time! we realize that this site isn't as easy to use and learn from as say a site like jquery.com which is so compelling as it bridges motion on the desktop and mobile. Of course the Flash 10 player will be on Android soon, and AS-HIVE is great fit for Flash 10! So we have some work to do this year to catch up to sites like jquery.
We will add the missing hello world demo and attempt to better introduce the framework.
Jun 1, 2008
Pete has finished his work on the new plug-in manager, and you can grab it from the featured downloads or the SVN (Source page).
If you need a copy of the AS3 Webservice package by Carlo Alducente you can get it from the featured downloads.
Jan 8, 2008
Pete has started to update HIVE to give us plug-in support so that we can swap out libraries as needed. For instance, if we wanted to play with different branches of PV3D we will soon be able to use the effects or GreatWhite 2.0 libraries depending on what we want to do in each state.
Nov 18, 2008
Pete's work: an online product guide for Telus powered by the Hive framework read more
Nov 16, 2008
Carlo's work: an impressive Webservice package for AS3 which we may include in a future Hive build. read more
Carlo is rocking out a very fine caption tool that allows non-technical people to easily author Timed Text xml (used in the new Flash CS3 captioning component) by watching a streaming video and pressing start/end buttons in the interface.
