flash catalyst

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  • Pupsipu0

    it's a WYSIWYG for Flex, and Flex is a copy of HTML/JavaScript functionality. So it's good for standard interfaces.

    The Flex Framework itself is a mess, it is bloated and has a shitload of features and adds 300K to your SWFs, and the best bet for that to be adopted is if it gets cached on every computer. That will be a whole new petric of penetration.

    But it doesn't really matter because it eases the workflow from Photoshop/Illustrator to Flex, and ultimately to developers.

    Also MXML is a good idea, it helps search engines. Adobe is basically trying to replace browsers with this Flash/Flex stuff.

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    • have you seen Flex 4?
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    • didn't see much of Flex 4, is it smaller filesize wise?Pupsipu
    • i mean Flex 4 the framework, not Flash Builder 4Pupsipu
    • flash builder 4 is catching up with FDT or IDEs for other languages mostly, that's goodPupsipu
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  • akoni0

    Flash Catalyst is cool, got a copy last November when we were at MAX. Adobe gave out a release at the end of May for those who were at FlashCamp in SF... its a little 'young still' .. it is basically taking comps from Illustrator/Fireworks/Photoshop, and separating them into components (helps with custom components, not just normal ones like buttons). or clips to be export to Flex. Animation is possible as well, although i haven't been impressed with the examples brought up from Adobe so far.

    Here is a small example:
    http://www.adobe.com/newsletters…

    I have been trying to do a little sample to show off Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 (Flash Builder), and twitter api, for show, since it is still young.

    Flash Builder has been nice though. I do some time line animations, but Flex/Flash Builder have been far nicer when doing pure AS3 projects. Code completion, imports, etc. are sooo much nicer than using the Flash IDE.

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    • Pupsipu0

      http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ has tutorials about it. You can pretty much build a simple and functioning flash site with it, and I don't know if it supports SWFAddress functionality right now, but it's built into Flex somewhere, so it should happen.

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      • build a site without coding anything* - you get to choose code functions from a menuPupsipu
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    • linearch0

      anybody else mess with this? is it just a software that allows you to make a website out of components?

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      • designbot0

        Seems like a WYSIWYG version of Flash.

        Where you can get away with doing minimal coding in Flash, at some point you have to use actionscript if you want to do anything cool. I watched a demo video and seemed very scripted, but like it might have some good uses.

        Looks sort of complicated to use though, makes me wonder if it would just be easier to use Flash and learn some actionscript instead.

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        • plus the Flex code i generates is probably a mess.designbot
        • *it generates.designbot
        • Should be easier to make MXML clean, since they made it for their programs.Pupsipu
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