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I'm playing around with RobotLegs today. Has anyone come across others? Any thoughts on them?

Gaia

I haven't built anything from scratch with it yet, but have collab'ed on a couple of Gaia projects. I was impressed with it.

I've done a couple of projects in Gaia (one is featured in Gaia's gallery, in fact ). All turned out less than ideal. Not that it isn't powerful - it certainly is - but I found myself spending more time adapting the projects to its needs than the other way around.

I'm sure that once one is comfortable it rocks - automatic HTML, SEO, and SWFAddress integration? awesome! - but I gave up.

Annnywho, with all of its automation it is far from mini!

yeah one of my colleagues said the same. I'll have to get around to building one entirely myself to really see if works for me or not.

So in a nutshell, what does robotlegs do for you then?

I think you inject the event logic for a flex app, it has a single bus you can tap into.

Its all a bit geeky and I am not convinced it seems to require rather a high level of knowledge and expertise, which to me makes it difficult to maintain and difficult to get dev's with enough expertise, seems like from a more simplistic viewpoint, you could use something like HSL (which is not EventDispatcher inheritance based) to shove all your events to a global/bus or busses, and then take them off there, most of these event frameworks are designed to work with flex. Seems robotlegs can be used with Gaia, aparently it is an improvement over something like MVC. I am yet to find any inspiring and prefer to do my own thing, but maybe I am just stiring to see what someone who uses them says.

Branden Hall and Joshua Davis: HYPE

that looks interesting, will have to check it out.

I guess in this vein is the marvellous TweenMax - I only recently started using it and I really regret not doing so a long time ago. I've always been reluctant to use these things, but this one really is a boon.