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Flex 3 beta & Adobe AIR available on Adobe Labs

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:51:32 +0000

Finally! After a great week of feature lists (by Ted Patrick) and quite some speculations on when the beta of Flex 3 would see its first daylight, here it is! It just got released together with the beta of Adobe AIR, which is the new name for Apollo and a new update for Flash Player 9. There is a big list on the Adobe Labs Wiki with a lot of Feature Introductions concerning Flex 3. It looks very promissing and great!

Download the new stuff from Adobe Labs or directly from:

Flex 3 Beta
Adobe AIR (Apollo)
Flash Player 9 update

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Adobe Flex 3 sneak preview

Wietse Veenstra — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:59:41 +0000

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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Adobe Apollo alpha released on labs.

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:45:00 +0000

Adobe released Apollo alpha on their labs site. Let’s download and have some fun with it soon. Grab it overhere. More information can be found on the wiki and for the dutch readers/developers, there’s ofcourse my Dutch translation of the DeveloperFAQ.

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Adobe releases Photoshop CS3 BETA via Adobe Labs

Wietse Veenstra — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:47:58 +0000

Last week, Photoshopuser.com posted a review of the new Photoshop CS3 which is now available for download from the Adobe Labs website.As with every new release, this one comes with a lot of cool new features. One of the major differences seems to be the user interface. This new version is probably the most customizable interface of Photoshop yet.Users who get scared by this idea, don’t worry. You can switch back to the ‘old’ Photoshop layout with one click on a button, but the new interface is certainly worth a try and once you will get used to it you probably don’t want to change back to the ‘old’ layout. For a full list of new features, check out the Adobe Labs website or read the full review @ Photoshopuser.com.

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Adobe Flash 9 Public Alpha

Wietse Veenstra — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:00:58 +0000

The all new Flash 9 authoring tool from Adobe will be shipped in 2007 but they already released a public alpha version. It’s a very early version and the only new features exposed in the very early alpha preview are related to ActionScript 3.0 which was first released with the Flash Player 9. These include the new ActionScript 3.0 compiler, the new ‘document class’ function which allows designers to assign a class to the main timeline, and the publish target for Flash Player 9. There will be other new features in this next release, also ones for ActionScript development but these are not made publicly available at the moment.

This alpha release is the only planned preview release before the final release will be launched and shipped. There isn’t a preview version planned for Intel-based Macintosh computers. Mac users will have to wait until the final version is launched. Windows users can download this alpha release here (adobe ID required)

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Adobe JamJar

Wietse Veenstra — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:24:58 +0000

I just launched Adobe JamJar for the first time. This is a online workspace where you can plan events, exchange ideas, manage projects, centralize information and share files and images. The workspace is very flexible, you can go around the screen by dragging the mouse, zoom in, search with Google, etc. It’s build on the Flex Builder 2.0 technology. I was very impressed to see how this beta platform works. Worth checking out! Adobe JamJar Note: You need an Adobe ID to login.

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