[arethuza]

I briefly considered writing some kind of framework for Canvas that would emulate the Flex DisplayObject and related container classes together with some useful behaviors.

I gave up when I realized how big a task this would be and that the result would probably be slow and almost surely superseded in some future release of Canvas.

[gb]

It depends what side of it you're trying to do, just getting a tree structure of Sprite-like things working is actually quite easy - canvas' drawing transform stack is ideal for resolving the nested transforms for each shape. The trickier part is re-rendering the smallest region of canvas possible when you do change part of the display list.

Maybe I should post a link to my stuff when I get around to working on it some more!

[arethuza]

It was the event handling side of things that I realized were going to be a fair bit of effort - all standard graphics stuff, but not things that I was particularly interested in writing at this moment in time.

Having said that, if you do have something along these lines I would love to hear about it.