Gaia Flash Framework – How to use your own preloader animation from Nicole Chung on Vimeo.
Lately I have been messing around with the Gaia Framework. I think for certain kinds of flash sites – for example, sites that aren’t Flash games or complex applications – that this framework is a great thing. I know that there are developers out there who feel that it’s better to roll their own framework, but Gaia really does a lot, especially if you use SWFAddress (which – once you get into making larger sites with more than one “/level/” of linking – isn’t easy without employing some design patterns).
A really great thing about the framework, in addition it the constant updates (which I suppose if you were on a longer project, might end up working against you) are some terrific mods (for example, to control cacheing and memory management) and a pretty easy-to-use API.