ActionStep Component Framework

ActionStep is an ActionScript 2.0 component framework for Flash. There isn’t published anything yet but the approach sounds just like a very nice solution. Instead of handling symbols and classes like the Flash V2 components ActionStep plans to handle all by code and by heavy drawing I guess. Focus of course another time for the opensource Flash compiler MTASC which I now mention in quite every post .
I am very excited about what’s going to happen with ActionStep and I would appriciate a mailing list which isn’t available yet at there sourceforge page.

Anyway – the upcoming opensource tools around flash are a big hint that there is a gap between what’s Macromedia offering today with Flash MX 2004 Pro and what developers have in mind and like to be solved better / another way. Otherwise the opensource community around flash won’t grow up so fast. Is it time for 8Ball or for a complete opensource Flash/SWF solution?