Yahoo Releases ASTRA: Set of Flash and Flex Components
January 30th, 2008 by ryanstewart
Yahoo is doing really great things for the Flash community. Today they released ASTRA (ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications), a set of Flex and Flash components that are meant to compliment the components that shipped with Flash CS3 and the components of the Flex Framework.
The Flash components include some great things like a Tree Component, an AutoComplete component, an Alert manager, Charting and a lot more. The Flex components are a bit more niche but still just as useful with the addition of an IPv4 Address Input, Color Slider Picker and a Time Stepper.
[tags]Yahoo, Flex, Flash[/tags]
Posted in Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications
January 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
[...] On the same day that Yahoo that its going to lay off up to 1,000 employees and it’s struggling to keep up after Google — I read on Ryan Stewart’s blog: “Yahoo Releases ASTRA: Set of Flash and Flex Components”. Huh? [...]
January 31st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Respect Yahoo! nice stuff, i love the BarChart thing it is excellent for visualizations. nice hint ryan thank you very much.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:33 am
Very cool… Looking forward to using these components within some of our widgets.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
The Flex components are more niche because Adobe did such a great job providing the most obvious ones. Between the Flex framework itself, FlexLib, and various other components released by the community, it’s hard to think up useful new components!
That said, if anyone out there has any particular Flex components they need, we’re certainly happy to consider feature requests for the Astra Flex components. Send them to us on the ydn-flash Yahoo! group.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Hey Josh, hopefully I didn’t come across as niche being a bad thing. Because the Flex component set is so large, you have to branch out into other interesting components. So I’m sorry if that connotation wasn’t implicit in my using the word niche.
Keep up the good work!
January 31st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Thanks, Ryan. I didn’t interpret your meaning negatively. Since you specifically said “niche”, I thought I’d add a bit of explanation and point out how well Adobe did creating such a strong base of components for Flex.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:02 am
So, if Microsoft follows through buying Yahoo, will these be converted to Silverlight?
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 am
I’m really worried that Microsoft is set out to buy Yahoo. Not good at all…
Anyone know any official statement from Adobe on this matter?
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
I was going to ask the same quiestion as Gareth
Anyway, buying Yahoo off by Microsoft will surely change many things, hopefully for the better. ASTRA is really nice tool, I just started using it and it’s very satistying.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
[...] Après Ajax (via le Yahoo! UI), c’est donc sur la technologie Falsh (et Flex) que les équipes de Yahoo! souhaitent capitaliser et partager son expérience. Pour plus d’infos : Yahoo Releases ASTRA: Set of Flash and Flex Components et Yahoo! Released ASTRA Flash and Flex components. [...]