TyZ - Thijs Broerse - Flash Developer

‘Temple‘ is the name of our AS3 library we use at MediaMonks. Almost all of our AS3 projects are using it. The Temple is inspired on several 3rd party libraries like ASAPLibrary, AS3CoreLib and CaseLib, but adapted to fit our needs.

The Temple consists of several classes we use on a regular basis. They are designed for reusability and optimized for performance and memory usage.  The Temple is specially designed to work with other frameworks like Gaia. The core of the Temple focuses on: debugging, destruction and memory management.

Debugging
Many classes are debuggable and have a ‘debug’ property. When this property is enabled, the object logs debug messages which allow you to see what the object is doing. All debuggable objects can be managed by the DebugManager. The DebugManager allows you to run all objects in debug mode.
All messages are logged through the Log class which is easily extended for usage by other logging applications, like Yalog and DeMonsterDebugger.

Destruction
All objects are destructible. By calling the destruct- method, the object will clear all of its data, removes all event listeners, removes itself from the display list (DisplayObjects only of course) and makes the object available for garbage collection. Destruction is recursive, so an object will also destruct all its children.

Memory Management
All Temple objects are tracked, via weak reference, in the Memory class. You can view all objects in the Memory class. This makes it possible to detect if an object’s destruct method is working correctly.

More
We also added many nice utility classes for the initial release of Temple, however there is a lot more to come. Since we are keen on stable, neat, and well documented code we are initially only releasing the core of the Temple library. This code has been used and tested and has proven to fit our requirements. There is a lot more we are planning to release soon, like UI components (buttons, form components, video player), loaders (CacheLoader, ImageLoader) and behaviors.

The Temple can be downloaded from Google code and the documentation can be viewed online.

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The Temple is released under the GNU General Public License which allows you to use, extend or modify the code to whatever you want.

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