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Yahoo! Maps AS3 API

The new Yahoo! ActionScript 3 & Flex Maps APIs.

Featured Application: Aquarium

Screen capture of Aquarium example

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A fun application using ASTRA components.
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Flash Theater

A screencast on Yahoo! ActionScript 3 Maps.
Other: Charts, AutoComplete and TabBar

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Welcome Flash Developers

The Yahoo! Flash Developer Center is an ever growing collection of Flash tools, resources and information, all freely available for your use. Check back often for updates, and join the ydn-flash Yahoo! Group to exchange information with Flash developers just like yourself.

Yahoo! Flash Blog

Yahoo! Maps Example: Collaboration Using Blaze DS

04/29/08, at 02:04 PM, by Josh Tynjala

Building Flash Desktop Apps with Yahoo Widgets!

04/28/08, at 03:04 PM, by Tripp Bridges

ASTRA 1.1.2 Maintenance Release

04/21/08, at 03:04 PM, by Josh Tynjala

AS3 Maps Update

03/12/08, at 10:03 AM, by Allen Rabinovich

Announcing ASTRA 1.1.1

02/20/08, at 03:02 PM, by Josh Tynjala

YDN-Flash Yahoo! Group

Join the ydn-flash group to connect to other developers like you and send comments and suggestions (and even bug reports!) to Yahoo!'s Flash Platform team.

Re: Getting total number of search results

05/10/08, at 08:05 AM, by pixelfish22

Getting total number of search results

05/09/08, at 03:05 PM, by pixelfish22

Re: Recompiling Astra MXP

05/09/08, at 11:05 AM, by jpspringall

Re: How to tackle cluster of markers

05/09/08, at 11:05 AM, by Sefi Ninio

Re: How to Trigger .EVENT_POI_CLICKED

05/09/08, at 11:05 AM, by Sefi Ninio

ASTRA: ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications

ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilties developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers. These libraries available under the terms of the open source BSD license.

Flash Components

Yahoo! offers the ASTRA Flash components to complement the existing set provided in Adobe Flash CS3. These components are easily skinnable and fully documented, and wide selection of examples are available to help developers get started quickly.

Components:

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Flex Components

Yahoo! offers the ASTRA Flex components for use in your Adobe Flex 3 applications. These Flex components are designed to work like any other components for Flex with familiar properties, styles, and events. They're fully documented, and each component comes with multiple examples that demonstrate its various uses.

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Badge Kit

The Badge Kit is an XML-based framework for rapid development of small interactive Flash applications. You can learn how to use the Badge Kit very quickly, and most of the usage scenarios require no knowledge of Flash.

Web APIs Library

Our Yahoo! Web APIs package for ActionScript 3 and Flex allows you to connect your application to any one of a variety of data services provided by Yahoo!.