Influxis, in association with 11th Principle, is proud to present Orchid; an Open Source Software Development Kit for Adobe’s Flash® Platform. Orchid is our internal framework used to build our next generation products and services. Written in Actionscript 3.0, Orchid consists of a core set of object-oriented frameworks that provide a light-weight runtime environment for applications running on Flash®. Designed from the ground up to be an easy to use framework, Orchid allows for the productive and efficient pairing of developers with designers.
Key Features
- Provides a light-weight mechanism that allows Objects to communicate
with each other at runtime. - Inversion of Control.
- Provides a mechanism for creating applications that can be initialised
without having to load the entire application container. - Introduces object wrappers for programatic primitives. These include
integers, arrays, booleans and strings. - Widgets or classes that implement some soft of graphic user interface
(e.g. Button, CheckBox, Slider, Lists, etc.) - Extremely easy to skin widgets(UI controls) using Flash® CS4 Authoring.
- Introduces a modular yet easy to use viewpoints framework for Actionscript 3.0
Influxis will be presenting a special showing of Orchid during Adobe’s Max Conference this year in Los Angeles. More details to emerge real soon so be sure and check back!
