Flash Player 8.5
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- shplashtik
Is there truly such a thing?
- fifty500
It's in Alpha stage:
- imakedesign0
supports as3.0
- loahn0
Installing Flex 2 also installs flash 8.5 player
- fusionpixel0
its been there for ages by now
- shplashtik0
I guess I just never noticed it before
Thanks!
- enjine0
yeah, just today i was using it and thought i'd test out the new flash VM that they've used for the player.
all i can say is...
i drew 5,000 objects on the stage and bounced them around the screen without too much slowdown.
insane
- version30
enjine-
can you show us what you're talking about?
- shplashtik0
yeah that would be sweeet.
- seed0
I haven't even started learning 2.0. Could I jump right into 3.0 or should I learn 2 first?
- joyride0
I was in a meeting with macromedia people a month or so ago and they said flash 8.5 will be out early next year. Maybe mid-Feb. Guess they need to get the profit from flash 8 before they charge us again for 8.5. what you guys think of that?
- 305artist0
Did you guys notice that its adobe labs now?
- enjine0
yeah, let me just export it and post somewhere. you have to have the 8.5 player to view it though.
back in 5 mins
- Mick0
The Macrodobe player 11 will replace previous Flash players and Flash will now be called "Voyeur". You heard it here first!
- fusionpixel0
you can skip AS2 but this is more if you are a developer if you just do basic gotoAndPlay commands you are ok with AS1-2
- enjine0
ok, so yeah 5000 is really chugging in the browser. here are two super simple examples i(i just started working through some flex tutorials today--you can be sure i'll be playing with this shit til all hours for the next few weeks)
1000 objects:
http://www.mechanical-bull.com/s…4000 objects:
http://www.mechanical-bull.com/s…
- shplashtik0
you didn't make those just in flex right?
- moook0
the 8.5 alpha is pretty damn fast but i hear the beta is almost ready and they've already increased the speed 10 times faster than the alpha.
sweeeeeeet.
- seed0
Thats a cool demo but I think it would make you crazy if you stared at it.
- enjine0
yeah they're made in flex--- flex Builder 2 as an ActionScript Project. I don't really ever use anything other than code in my flash files so i'm pretty used to it anyway.
- seed0
I didn't know you could do stuff like that in Flex.