Archive for February, 2009

Thoughts about Adobe’s announcements today

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Adobe announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress that Flash Player 10 will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems by early 2010.
What does this mean for Flash and Flex developers? It means that we can finally use the same tools that we use [...]

Building Flash Projects with Ant and Flex Builder – Part 3

Monday, February 16th, 2009

In Part 3 of this tutorial, we shall use a combination of the MXMLC compiler and JSFL script to compile an external SWF which will be loaded into your main SWF.
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To begin this tutorial, please make sure you have set up your workspace as suggested in Part 1.
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Building Flash Projects with Ant and Flex Builder – Part 2

Monday, February 16th, 2009

In Part 2 of this tutorial, we’ll compile an ActionScript 3 only project simply by launching the MXMLC compiler with an Ant task in Flex Builder.
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To begin this tutorial, please make sure you have set up your workspace as suggested in Part 1.
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Building Flash Projects with Ant and Flex Builder – Part 1

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

As more Flash developers migrate towards using tools like Flex Builder and FDT for code editing, some of us have found that switching between the Flash IDE and Flex Builder doesn’t necessarily present the most seamless workflow. Compiling with the Flash IDE is slow and cumbersome; building an entire Flash project with code in Flex [...]