I've posted about the components I've been working on as a side project for a long while now. Finally, I'm just about ready to release them to the public in a beta state.

The Razor Component Framework is intended to be a lightweight, yet feature-rich alternative to the mx framework for Flash, Flex and AIR. It comes in both ActionScript 2 and 3 flavours while maintaining as consistent an API as possible.

The components are intended for the more advanced developer, since you mostly create and control them using ActionScript. Although I do plan on modifying them for use with Flash CS3 in the near future, and looking into an adapter for Flex.

Current component set:

Accordion

Button

Calendar

CheckBox

ColorPicker

ColorSwatch

ComboBox

DateChooser

Image

Label

List

ProgressBar

RadioButton/RadioGroup

ScrollBar

TextArea

TextInput

ScrollArea

Pane

Layer

Key features:

StyleSheets.
Razor implements a cascading stylesheet system that supports a great degree of flexibility.
You can 'piggy-back' StyleSheets in order to override default functionality of a skin.
You can have fine grained control over specific parts of a component; for instance, you can define a StyleSheet that applies a bitmap image to the up-button of the scrollbar inside a TextArea.
You can set styles for a user-defined class of components, as well as set styles for all instances of a component class.
You can also apply styles to a whole subset of your application, such as setting the default font to be Verdana.
Whats more, you can do all of this at runtime

Swappable parts
Along with the StyleSheet system which defines the skin for a set of components. You can replace each component part with your own implementation.
If you wanted to, you could replace all Labels, or all Backgrounds with a class of your own.
Think of this as being similar to using list cell renderers, except for everything.

Automatic layout
The Layer component provides a container with dynamically swappable layout functionality.

Small
Since Razor's default skin is programmatic, the components require no assets out-of-the-box, making them relatively lightweight.

Licensing
I've decided to make the component set available under a dual licensing scheme. You can license the components under the Gnu GPL, or you can choose to obtain a commercial license. Basically what this means is that if you don't wish to share the source code of your proprietary product (as required by the GPL), you'll need to get a commercial license. Please contact me at (ash [at] razorberry [dot] com) if you're interested in licensing

Availability
Since I'm putting this post out there, I plan on releasing the ActionScript 3 source code in just over a week. Then after some backporting of the most recent features, the ActionScript 2 source.
I'll be providing documentation, as well as access to bug tracking, as I go along.

Future
DataGrid.
CSS parser for easier style definition.
Extending the automatic layout to parse xml. (rxml? )
Other various components as people request them.

Thanks for reading!