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Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst public beta available on Adobe Labs

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swfgeek
on May 31, 2009
in ADOBE, BETAS, FLASH BUILDER, FLASH CATALYST, FLEX IDE, FLEX SDK, FRAMEWORKS and GENERAL
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Adobe Flash Builder 4  (formely  Flex Builder 4 ) and Adobe Flash Catalyst are out on Adobe Labs going to download and try them out before posting a proper review meanwhile more info on Ryan Stewart’s blog and Andrew Shorten’s Tutorial

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Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features.There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development. For an overview of the features included in this first public beta release, please read Tim Buntel’s What’s New in Flash Builder 4 article and watch the new feature videos. As always, the Flex 4 framework is included within Flash Builder, so please also read Matt Chotin’s What’s New in the Flex 4 SDK article.

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Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.

  • Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces.
  • Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
  • Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
  • Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.

Go get Flash Builder 4

Go get Flash Catalyst
Flash Builder 4 Standalone Installer

Flash Builder 4 Plugin for Eclipse

Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash Professional CS4

Flex 4 Test Automation Plug-in

Flash Catalyst Beta

More Adobe Resources:
Learn about Flash Builder 4

Learn about Flex 4 SDK

Working with Flash Builder 4

ActionScript 3 migration cookbook beta at Adobe Developer Connection

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swfgeek
on April 25, 2009
in ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0, ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0, ADOBE, ADOBE DEVELOPER CONNECTION, FLASH CS4, FLASH PLATFORM and GENERAL
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A new section on the Adobe Developer Connection it’s up , ActionScript 3 migration cookbook and it looks really usefull if you’re still using  ActionScript 2 on a regular basis this cookbook  would be a good migration point.

You can already see some entries online or download the pdf version of the ActionScript 3 migration cookbook

Basics

User interactions


MovieClips

Media and data

An excerpt form the site:
The ActionScript 3 migration cookbook beta provides a quick introduction to migrating to ActionScript 3 from ActionScript 2. It is targeted at designers and developers who have some experience scripting content within Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. It does not require an understanding of object-oriented programming.

Go Check It Here

Adobe Labs releases the beta of Text Layout Framework

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swfgeek
on December 4, 2008
in AIR, BETAS, FLASH CS4, FLASH PLAYER 10, FLEX IDE, FRAMEWORKS and GENERAL
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Adobe Labs has released the beta of Text Layout Framework for Adobe® Flash® Player 10 and Adobe AIR® 1.5.   The Text Layout Framework is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web. The framework is designed to be used with Flash or Flex.

Together with the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5, the Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web, including support for:

  • Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.
  • Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images
  • Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography
  • Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens
  • Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing
  • Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.
It appears that the new version of Flex “GUMBO” will already include the Layout Framework
For more info and examples visit Adobe Labs

Cocomo new social app technology at Adobe Labs

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on November 17, 2008
in BETAS, COCOMO, FLEX IDE and GENERAL
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There is a new Technology  available at Adobe Labs Codename “Cocomo” is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (rich Internet applications). Comprised of both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Cocomo allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before. And because Acrobat.com hosts the service, issues like deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of for you.

Add social features to your existing Flex apps or build totally new ones, such as real-time productivity/collaboration apps, multiplayer games, and audio/video chat.

Features of the Cocomo beta include the following:

  • VoIP Audio
  • Webcam Video
  • Chat
  • Multi-User Whiteboards
  • Real-Time File Sharing
  • User Management
  • Roles and Permissions
  • Robust Data Messaging

The Cocomo Adobe labs page

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