New beta: Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex SDK 4
Somehow, behind the good news from Google, news about new Adobe products, especially Flash Catalyst, quietly passed through.
If someone does not know what Catalyst is - imagine how the site is being created at the moment, and we will describe it like this:
PSD -> HTML -> Server code
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or even easier:
graphic design -> layout -> server code
Flash Catalyst is a product for flash makers that allows you to make the transition “graphic design -> layout” in a flash project.
The result of the work of Catalyst is fxg-code, which is transmitted to programmers for further work.
The product is still quite brake and eats a lot of memory, but there are surprisingly few bugs. I myself have been waiting for him for a long time, I liked working with him.
Watch the video, how it all works, you can here (very clearly) and here .
Since I translate badly, links to reviews of innovations:
Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK 4
The main feature of all - the new format FXG (1.0). This is a new XML format for working with graphics for the Flash Platform. It describes high-level graphics and text primitives.
The only disappointment is that the output swf file is very large, from 1 MB (compiled empty mxml took swf in 596 kilobytes), but maybe future browsers or flash-plugin itself will support FXG?
Finally, let me quote the words of one flash prog:
- The bottom line is that being a purely programmer, I don’t take up projects where I need to give out eye-candy. But who said that a business UI should be gray and boring? Revitalizing the interface, having a professionally made design in PSD format, will help the close integration of Flash Builder into the Adobe product family. The new tool - Flash Catalyst - can bring the designer and programmer closer, allowing the first one to “slice” the design, revitalize it with action and effects. The programmer will receive a description of the interface in terms of FXG and easily integrate into your project. For simple projects, Flash Catalyst will help the programmer to cope with the technical embodiment of the application design itself - if only the interface has been professionally drawn in advance. I am sure that the result of such a rapprochement will be on the hand of everyone, and customers will be delighted with the result.
If someone does not know what Catalyst is - imagine how the site is being created at the moment, and we will describe it like this:
PSD -> HTML -> Server code
')
or even easier:
graphic design -> layout -> server code
Flash Catalyst is a product for flash makers that allows you to make the transition “graphic design -> layout” in a flash project.
The result of the work of Catalyst is fxg-code, which is transmitted to programmers for further work.
The product is still quite brake and eats a lot of memory, but there are surprisingly few bugs. I myself have been waiting for him for a long time, I liked working with him.
Watch the video, how it all works, you can here (very clearly) and here .
Since I translate badly, links to reviews of innovations:
Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK 4
The main feature of all - the new format FXG (1.0). This is a new XML format for working with graphics for the Flash Platform. It describes high-level graphics and text primitives.
The only disappointment is that the output swf file is very large, from 1 MB (compiled empty mxml took swf in 596 kilobytes), but maybe future browsers or flash-plugin itself will support FXG?
Finally, let me quote the words of one flash prog:
- The bottom line is that being a purely programmer, I don’t take up projects where I need to give out eye-candy. But who said that a business UI should be gray and boring? Revitalizing the interface, having a professionally made design in PSD format, will help the close integration of Flash Builder into the Adobe product family. The new tool - Flash Catalyst - can bring the designer and programmer closer, allowing the first one to “slice” the design, revitalize it with action and effects. The programmer will receive a description of the interface in terms of FXG and easily integrate into your project. For simple projects, Flash Catalyst will help the programmer to cope with the technical embodiment of the application design itself - if only the interface has been professionally drawn in advance. I am sure that the result of such a rapprochement will be on the hand of everyone, and customers will be delighted with the result.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/61847/
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