Yahoo! ASTRA

ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers. These libraries available under the terms of the open source BSD License.

These components are easily to skinnable and fully documented, and wide selection of examples are available to help developers get started quickly !

New flash components :

- AlertManager (a user interface component that creates alert windows and manages their queue).
- AudioPlayback (a set of controls for audio playback)
- menuBar (a component that renders hierarchical data as a row of buttons with nested menus using the Menu component)

New Flex Components :

- AutoCompleteManager( a component that manages a set of input controls, popping up suggestions when a user types into one of the fields. Instead of replacing TextInput fields with a specific AutoComplete control, you can simply point the manager to one or more TextInputs, and you’ll get a slick pop-up or auto-fill interaction.
- ColorPickers (user interface component that allows the user to pick a color value. ColorPlaneAndSliderPicker, ColorSliderPicker, DropDownColorPicker).
-IPV4AddressInput (user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input and Internet Protocol version 4 address.This control includes a field for each separate byte and full keyboard navigation).
-TimeInput (user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input a time value. This control include fields for hours, minutes,second,and AM/PM. Styling options allow the time to be presented in 12 or 24 hour formats).
- TimeStepper (user interface component for Flex that allows the user to input a time value. This component have the same optionsas the TimeInput but for input’s user and Up and Down buttons allow the user to increase or decrease the currently selected field.

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