Any recommendations on a pure actionscript layout manager library? That isn't flex that is...

Question

I know, Flex should be the answer to this but I not using flex for this project and you probably won't convince me to...it's just not needed here.

Having said that - anybody have a specific actionscript layout manager that they use? I'm looking at the following 2 but I'm not sure but I'm not sure if I'm missing any others out there. If I had to list a requirement it would definitely be performance, if that helps at all...

The two libraries I'm looking at currently are:

BaseUI: http://www.soundstep.com/blog/downloads/baseui/

NoPonies FLexible Layout Class: http://www.blog.noponies.com/archives/109

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I have used AsWing in the past which was quite good. It is however not only a layoutmanager library, but a complete UI framework modelled after Java Swing. So in your case it might be a bit overkill.

I haven't used any of the 2 libraries you mention unfortunately.

Answer 2

Honestly. The two projects managed look very fine to me. If you need performance stick with them, if they are not to hard to use.

Otherwise I can give you some tips to decrease size and increase performance with flex :D

Answer 3

The Yahoo Astra Flash Components contain some nice base-layout classes that are somewhat similar to the Flex containers without requiring the Flex framework. I have used them on a couple as-only projects with pretty good results.

Answer 4

You might wanna look at this.

Answer 5

These are all decent but you might want to look at http://github.com/talltyler/ASTRID It has a few view renderers, a couple of them renderer standard HTML and CSS.