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Adobe Kills the Flash CS5 Public Beta

By Arthur Lockman on December 17, 2009 3:14 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I got a letter from Adobe today that contained some sad news. I had added myself to the list to be notified when the Public Beta of Flash Pro CS5 came out on the labs website. They sent me a letter today that said that they will no longer be opening the product up to public beta users. That's too bad. Among other things, I was excited to have it do iPhone development, but I guess I'll just have to wait for the full release. The text of the letter is below. 
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All for Now!

Great Session on Flash Catalyst

By Arthur Lockman on April 26, 2009 4:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Great session on Flash Catalyst. From @flash_catalyst  on Twitter.

To Continue my Catalyst Reviews...

By Arthur Lockman on April 7, 2009 7:10 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
I plan to create a daily series about Flash Catalyst. As you all know, however, I can't get catalyst yet. This really stinks, and I am really mad. I have no idea who to contact to get onto the Private betas, as this link is not available to the public. As Ryan has said, it should be out in a year. That probably means that the Public beta won't come out for another six months. This really stinks. I don't even have any idea as to wether it will work on my Powerbook... I should look into that...happy01

Just a thought. 

Flash Catalyst....

By Arthur Lockman on March 26, 2009 2:28 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

I can't wait for Catalyst to come out. It loks like a really great product. In preparation fot it, I have already created a sample InDesign file that I will use catalyst to turn into an RIA. Another question that I will have is as to wether it can export to AIR. I know it makes flash, but can it make AIR? I'd be curious to see.

Just a thought.

Catalyst, to the Future and Beyond

By Arthur Lockman on March 13, 2009 4:21 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I think that catalyst is a great tool. However, to be smarter, they could impliment it a different way.

I think that they should take the tools from catalyst and insert them into ALL of the design applications; Photoshop, InDesign, etc. That way, it would save the extra step of importing to catalyst then exporting it again. It could be done in one step from one application.

Another idea that I had is that they could merge Flash and Flash Catalyst. This would make alot of sense, because flash already has some of these tools. They could do the same thing with Catalyst and Flex Builder.

Just a thought.

Flash CS4 Quizzes

By Arthur Lockman on March 6, 2009 1:32 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
Sorry for the entry below this one that doesn't exist. It submitted the entry before I had typed anything in it.

One thing that I think is annoying in flash CS4 is that there are no more Quiz templates. Before, I could make a quiz and post it to my connect room. Now, I can't, since there are no quizzes in Flash anymore. I can make them in Presenter, but that means I need windows, which I don't have. I don't know if it's possible to get these templates for CS4, but I'll look and post them if I find them.

Rotating a SWF in a Flex Application..

By Arthur Lockman on March 3, 2009 7:13 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Let's just say that this is a nightmare. An absolute nightmare. You would think that you just drag the rotation handle around to rotate it to what you want. This actually doesn't work. It creates a ScrollBar on the bottom of the screen so that you can scroll to the actual location of the SWF. So, to eliminate this, you have to change the rotation center of the SWF, and the scroll bar will be gone when you rotate it.

Maybe I'm just a klutz and there is an easier way. Maybe not. I don't know.
My problem came when I tried to make this calendar and the InDesign generated SWF wouldn't rotate properly. It does now, but it didn't at one point.

PDF in Flex 3

By Arthur Lockman on March 3, 2009 6:44 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I found this today while developing my CommuniPix Desktop App. If any of you use CommuniPix, let me know what you want to see in the desktop app, besides the standard features. I need this to display a piece of it that is online and I would like to display it in the application. I am developing it in AIR, and plan to also make a Flex port of it for the website. 

This is the Adobe Help Center tutorial on displaying a PDF in Flex. 

Flash Catalyst

By Arthur Lockman on March 3, 2009 6:20 AM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
I took a look at Flash Catalyst this morning. It's pretty interesting. That really is the bridge between PS and AI and FW to Flex. Before, there really wasn't one. But still, will it be out in time to be part of CS4? Who knows. 

If any of you got a MAX preview, leave some comments to let everyone know about it.

Should Adobe bypass Flex 4?

By Arthur Lockman on March 1, 2009 1:38 PM | 6 Comments | No TrackBacks
So, I've given it alot of thought, and I really do believe that Adobe should bypass Flex 4. I know it's been previewed at MAX and stuff, but it really needs to go. By the looks of the timeline, it won't come out until long After the next release of Creative Suite. So, that would make it two versions behind. The Flex 3 came out as a CS3 product and Flex 4 will be CS5? I don't know. IT really has to go.
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