The ZAAZ Go Library

By Graeme Asher | 0 Comments | Posted in in Development | Permalink

It's my pleasure to announce the launch of the ZAAZ Go Library, developed by the Flash team at ZAAZ of Jud Holliday, Cole Peterson, Graeme Asher and Eric Mathiasen.  This represents ZAAZ's first foray into open-source software and the start of many releases to come from the talented developers at ZAAZ.

So what's this library all about?

The ZAAZ Go Library is a suite of classes built upon the the GoASAP platform that addresses the needs of animation, sequencing and other related tasks within ActionScript 3.0. Our goal is to create an open-source, object-oriented, strongly-typed library that is light weight, standardized, intuitive and easily expandable.  If you liked FUSE you should love this library.

The library allows you to quickly create complex sequences of animations that are easy to read and work with. Your projects use only the classes you need, keeping the file size down. Within the library you will find classes (with detailed examples) to meet your most common needs as well as others to handle more abstract situations. As we identify needs and dream up new possibilities we will release them to the library.

The GoASAP project is a versatile, generic base library for building animation tools in ActionScript 3.0. built by Moses Gunesch.  We have been using GoASAP internally since it's inception, working closely with Moses to develop these tools that are critical in our day to day development of interactive sites.  We have been very pleased with the GoASAP platform and how quickly we can bring concepts to concrete implementations, this library is proof of that concept.

If you are at FlashBelt in Minneapolis today you can see Moses and Jud speak about GoASAP and the ZAAZ Go Library in person at 10am.

Today's release is the culmination of several weeks of work and the start of many good things to come from the Flash team.  In the following days and weeks we will be expanding the library and posting extensive tutorials on blogs.zaaz.com to help you easily get into the flow of working with GoASAP and the ZAAZ Go Library. In the meantime the library is available via SVN and can be downloaded as a .zip on the GoASAP Playground, which is a Google hosted project. To find out more about the project click here.