Adobe Flex 3 sneak preview
May 30th, 2007
Today we got to see one of the first sneak previews of Flex 3 by Waldo Smeets and I must say that there are some very nice features and improvements coming up in this new release. All of the new features which were shown us today are still in the ‘thinking’ process so they might not even survive till the official release but most will I think! A public beta release will be published on Adobe Labs very soon according to Waldo and the official release will be somewhere at the end of this year I guess. I summed up some of the cool new features below.
One of the new features is that the Apollo SDK will be integrated in Flex 3 from the beginning on so you don’t have to download a patch to ensure the functionality in Flex anymore. Another great thing in the new version will be, and they listened very good to the users of Flex over at Adobe for this one, is the ability to zoom in the Design View. You can zoom up to 500% (at least in this early build). The datagrid has also improved a lot (this is the one component where Flex users get a lot of problems with), there will be an Advanced DataGrid with support for multiple sorting, merging cells, tree-like structures within the datagrid and some other cool new features. Furthermore, the new Flex will allow you to select the version you want to compile for, Flex 2.0.1 hotfix 2 or Flex 3 were in that list in the preview. Also new is the Profiler which lets you build another version of your project from which you can review a lot of statistics, including memory usage of each separate component in your project, etc. The last new feature I want to name is ‘Refactoring’. This allows users to select for example a function name, and then quickly rename this in your entire project. So every copy of the function name in the entire project will be renamed in one click. A very good feature in my opinion. I hope the beta will be released soon because I’m very eager to start working/testing with it!
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Here’s a feature request for Flex Builder 3: Design-time Style Sheets (just like in Dreamweaver where you can specify a CSS file to use during development).
Did you happen to notice if the change was made such that if I move or rename a class during refactoring that the name change propogates to the code?
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Will the size of the generated SWFs be smaller??
Hey guys, thanks for the comments.
@Mike, the size of the SWF’s will not be very much smaller. When you compile a project a lot of code has to be implemented in the SWF for it to work properly and I believe that couldn’t be changed very easily. They are looking for some other ways of changing it, so I hope they get it right because they are big indeed!
@diamondTearz, I think thats indeed the way it will work, although giving you the option to select the items you want to rename (through checkboxes).
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Great Blog…
great news, all the best in the future…