indivision-codebase-as1

Joe Miller's ActionScript 1.0 framework for Adobe Flash — predecessor to indivision-codebase-as2, used as the foundation for Flash-era projects (mid-2000s). A collection of light-weight UI, layout, media, event, and utility classes targeting Flash Player 6/7-era AS1.

Status

• Era: mid-2000s.
• Stack: ActionScript 1.0 (class-style declarations introduced in Flash MX 2004 / Flash Player 7).
• State: archived; Flash itself reached end-of-life on December 31, 2020. Preserved for historical/educational interest and for restoring legacy Flash-era projects.
• Successor: indivision-codebase-as2 — strict superset, 80 classes vs AS1's 28 (see AS1 vs AS2).

Layout

indivision-codebase-as1/
├── README.md
├── codebase/             ← Indivision framework code (the main library)
│   ├── classes/
│   │   ├── com/          ← bundled third-party AS classes
│   │   └── net/indivision/   ← Indivision's own framework
│   └── fla_examples/     ← runnable .fla demos + compiled .swf output per package
├── dev/                  ← scratch / one-off (speedtest)
├── global/               ← shared third-party AS libraries
│   ├── com/
│   │   ├── informatikanova/   ← datacube + engine
│   │   ├── robertpenner/      ← easing + bezier
│   │   ├── schematic/         ← site / module / page / grid adapters
│   │   └── senocular/         ← Path
│   └── org/
│       └── as2lib/            ← as2lib environment
├── layout/standard/      ← standard layout package
└── test/picture_viewer/  ← test harness for the picture viewer

Indivision's framework (codebase/classes/net/indivision/)

28 classes across 8 packages.

net.indivision.arrange

Position and arrangement utilities (expanded substantially in AS2).

• Position — positioning utility for movieclip placement.

net.indivision.control

User-interaction controls. The largest package; the polished UI layer.

• AbstractButton — base class for all button variants.
• AnimatedButton — button with frame-based animations.
• CustomButton, CustomButtonStyle — fully customizable button + its style descriptor.
• LabelButton, LabelButtonStyle — button with a text label + its style descriptor.
• LinearButton — button with linear arrangement (toolbar-style).
• MenuBase — generic menu component, extends MovieClipDispatcher.
• ScrollBar — scrollbar component, extends MovieClipDispatcher.
• Scrub, IScrubbable — scrubber control (media seekbar-style) + interface for scrubbable targets.

net.indivision.debug

Debug helpers.

• Trace — wrapper around trace() adding optional formatting.
• JavaAlert — fires getURL("javascript:alert(...)") from within Flash for browser-side debug alerts.

net.indivision.element

Non-interactive visual elements.

• Bullet — visual bullet point graphic.
• LabelBase — text-label base class.

net.indivision.event

Event dispatching tools.

• FrameEventBeacon — dispatches per-frame onEnterFrame events to subscribers.
• KeyBeacon — dispatches key-press events.
• StageBeacon — dispatches stage-resize events.

net.indivision.media

Media wrappers.

• SoundClip — simple wrapper around flash.media.Sound for triggered SFX.

net.indivision.shape

Shape primitives + style descriptors.

• AbstractShape — base class for procedural shapes.
• Backdrop — fullscreen background fill shape.
• FillStyle — fill style descriptor (color + alpha).
• RectangleShape — procedurally-drawn rectangle.

net.indivision.util

Generic utilities.

• Group — manages a logical group of movieclips.
• MovieClipStack — stack-based movieclip allocation/recycling.
• Timer — simple setInterval-based timer wrapper.

FLA examples (codebase/fla_examples/)

Runnable demos for ~25 classes/concepts. Each in fla_examples/source/<package>/<demo-name>/<DemoName>.fla with compiled .swf output in fla_examples/deploy/:

• arrange: arrange, Axis, StageManager
• control: AnimatedButton, CustomButton, LabelButton, LinearButton, MenuBase, ScrollBar
• data: XMLConstruct (an XML-to-Object parser)
• effect: MaskWipe
• element: Animation, ExpandingFrame, LabelBase
• event: KeyBeacon, StageBeacon
• layout: Grid
• load: LoadQueue, PerformanceLoader
• media: AudioManager, FLVMedia, MediaPlayer, MP3, SoundClip
• operation: operation
• shape: RectangleShape
• tween: FrameMotion, FrameTween, tween
• util: Group, Timer

Dependencies

Bundled (in global/)

Library	Path	Purpose
Robert Penner Easing	global/com/robertpenner/easing/	Easing functions (Back, Bounce, Circ, Cubic, Elastic, Expo, Linear, Quad, Quart, Quint, Sine)
Robert Penner Bezier	global/com/robertpenner/bezier/	CubicCurve bezier math
Senocular Path	global/com/senocular/Path.as	Path-following math utility (Trevor McCauley / senocular.com)
as2lib	global/org/as2lib/	OO framework: events, exceptions, output handling (Mozilla Public License 1.1)
Informatika Nova	global/com/informatikanova/	datacube (3D coord system) + engine (Bernd Will, informatika-nova.com)
Schematic Site	global/com/schematic/site/	Site/Module/Page/Grid scaffold classes

Imported but not bundled (Flash standard libraries)

Indivision code imports these from Macromedia's Flash MX 2004 runtime — ship with the Flash IDE / Flash Player runtime; no additional install needed:

• mx.events.EventDispatcher — Flash's standard event dispatcher.
• mx.utils.Delegate — function-binding helper.

Indivision code's actual third-party imports

A scan of import statements in codebase/classes/net/indivision/, component/, and layout/ shows Indivision code only imports:

• Other net.indivision.* modules
• mx.events.EventDispatcher, mx.utils.Delegate

The global/ libraries are bundled for availability — Indivision developers could use them in projects atop this codebase — but the framework itself doesn't require them.

AS1 vs AS2

indivision-codebase-as2 is the AS2 successor — strict superset, 80 indivision classes vs AS1's 28. AS2 adds entirely new packages:

Package	AS1	AS2
core	—	AbstractDispatcher, AbstractMovieClip, MovieClipDispatcher
data	—	DataProviderProxy, XMLConstruct, XMLConstructNode
effect	—	AbstractEffect, Fade, MaskWipe, Reveal, TweenEffect
layout	—	AbstractLayout, Column, Grid, IArrangeable, Row
load	—	LoadQueue, PerformanceLoader
media (extras)	SoundClip	+ AbstractMedia, AudioManager, FLVMedia, Image, LinearMedia, MP3, StaticMedia, VideoClip
operation	—	AbstractAnalysis, Extract, Find, Iteration, Quantity, Run, Set
project	—	AbstractXMLProject
text	—	HidingDefaultText
tween	—	FrameMotion, FrameTween, Motion, MotionPath, Move, PropertyTween, TweenBase

AS2 also expanded existing AS1 packages: arrange (1 → 7 classes), control (11 → 11, refined), element (2 → 4), shape (4 → 6), util (3 → 4).

If you're starting new Flash-era work, use AS2 — AS1 is preserved here for historical interest.

Restoration / compile

To compile, you need Flash MX 2004 or later (Flash CS3-era recommended for the most-tested setup). Open any .fla from codebase/fla_examples/source/<package>/<DemoName>/. Classpath should include:

codebase/classes/
global/com/
global/org/

Publish Settings > Flash > ActionScript Version should be ActionScript 2.0 (the class keyword is AS2 syntax, but the AS1 era allowed class-declared code that targeted older players via --language AS1 compile flag).

Related repos

• indivision/indivision-codebase-as2 — AS2 successor.