Flash Components for Rich Internet Application Development [Overview]

Overview
GhostWire Studios develops flexible, lightweight and truly skinnable Flash components. These components, based on our GhostWire Component Architecture, have proven to be invaluable tools in the development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). Jumpstart your Flash application development with GhostWire Components!

Note:
All components are written in Actionscript 1.0 and are compatible with both Flash MX and Flash MX 2004

Features
Lightweight
Despite the advent of broadband, size still matters alot in web applications. We want our Flash applications to be sleek in design and slim in filesizes. GhostWire components are designed to be as slim as possible.

Sharp Look
Movieclips in Flash can be placed up to one decimal place 'precision' - sounds good, except that in truth it isn't precision you are getting - most of the time you get blurred images. Let's face it, we don't need this 'precision'. GhostWire components automatically snap-to-pixel, giving you the sharp look you want. Even if you place a component on the stage at x_coordinate 7.3, the movie will still be published sharp (the component will snap to x_coordinate 7.0). This is especially important if you are using bitmap graphics or pixel fonts.

Truly Skinnable
If you have tried changing the skins (look and feel) of the Macromedia FUI Components shipped with Flash MX, you would know how clumsy, difficult and messy it can get. This is especially so if you want different visuals for the same component in the same movie/application; you will find that digging into the Flash UI Components folders in the Library, duplicating the symbols and editing the movieclips can become tedious and even error-prone.

GhostWire Studios develops Flash components using an easy-to-understand architecture that allows the skins (look and feel) and the code (logic) to be totally separated, making it really easy to modify the visual assets of the components.

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GhostWire Components Set 1