Today, I played around with Actionscript 3 and the Flash 9 AS3 Preview release. Turns out that the AS3 Preview currently does not support the Intel-based Macs. When you try to compile, or export as one used to say, you get an error message, “Error initializing java runtime environment. You may need to reinstall flash?” The Flash IDE then crashes. According to Adobe, they have no plans to offer any Intel-based Mac support for the preview releases. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the official release of Flash CS3 to see the new Flash 9 IDE in action on an Intel-Mac. With the increasing number of Flash developers switching to the Mac platform, I find this lack of support by Adobe particularly hostile and disturbing.

If you are intent on trying out the AS3 Preview on an Intel-Mac, there are ways of getting around the problem such as installing the PC version on your Parallels-Windows VM or Bootcamp-Windows. Or you may just decide to stick with Flex Builder 2 for now, which is exactly what I’m going to do.

Tags: Actionscript, CS3, Flash

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