Adobe® AIR extension for Flash CS3! WOW!!!

You will be able to select AIR as the version type under the Publishing settings.



Then you will have a new "AIR - Application Settings" option in the commands menu.

This will allow anyone to quickly start authoring for Adobe AIR with Flash CS3. Looking forward to having it out to you soon.

What's new in Flex 3 Beta 2 ?? HUH??

Matt Chotin

Adobe

It is a great time to be a Flex developer. In June 2006 we released Flex 2, a lineup of developer tools, libraries and runtime services that enable developers everywhere to build and deploy rich Internet applications that take advantage of the Flash® Player runtime. Flex 2 has been hugely successful with tens of thousands of new developers, a vibrant community that shares tips, tricks, and code, dozens of commercial and open source components and other add-ons, and of course hundreds of new applications built, with more coming online every day. In the short lifetime of Flex 2, we've seen Flash Player 9 follow the traditional penetration pattern of previous Flash Players and reach over 94% penetration in mature markets (as of September 2007). Finally, we were pleased to see Flex win its second Jolt Award, this year in the web development category.

We've also seen great success with LiveCycle Data Services ES, formerly Flex Data Services. LiveCycle Data Services ES enables developers to build applications that are not only rich in terms of user interface, but also in terms of how data flows between tiers, and also in terms of the innovative services these applications can offer. With new features like LiveCycle ES application integration, PDF document generation, and integration with more frameworks such as Hibernate and Spring, LiveCycle Data Services ES provides the ultimate solution for connecting RIAs to J2EE infrastructure.

Flex 3 features

The Flex 3 release is divided into four major themes: designer/developer workflow, working with data, Adobe AIR applications, and platform evolution. Let's quickly review some of the highlights:

• Native support for Adobe AIR – Flex 3 introduces new components and incorporates the Adobe AIR development tools into the SDK and Flex Builder.
• Persistent framework caching – You can make Flex 3 applications as small as 50K when leveraging the new Flash Player cache for Adobe platform components.
• Flex Builder productivity enhancements – Flex Builder 3 introduces refactoring support, new profilers for performance and memory tuning, and code generation tools for data access.
• Integration with Creative Suite 3 – The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows Flash CS3 users to build components that can be seamlessly integrated into a Flex application, while Flex Builder 3 adds new wizards for importing assets from CS3 applications as skins.
• Advanced DataGrid – The Advanced DataGrid is a new component that adds commonly requested features to the DataGrid such as support for hierarchical data, and basic pivot table functionality.
• First steps toward open source Flex. As a first step toward making Flex an open source project, we've opened up the Flex and Flex Builder bug tracking system to the public, as well as published detailed roadmap information.

For more information click here --> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3_whatsnew.html

The MAKING of WEB2DELIGHT Teaser!! EXCLUSIVE!!!

HOW THE WEB2DELIGHT TEASER WAS BORN....





ME AND MY COLLEAGUE, SHODAN KARKERA GOT THIS GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO DESIGN A TEASER FOR http://www.web2delight.com/. WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT TO START WITH. ALL WE HAD WAS FOUR LINES OF TEXT THAT NEEDED TO BE DISPLAYED. THE PRODUCT WAS A SOFTWARE. WE STARTED THINKING AT THE USER'S PERSPECTIVE. GOOGLE WAS ONE GREAT HELP FOR US, AND AS EVERY DESIGNER NEEDS A STARTER, WE STARTED CHECKING SOFTWARE WEBSITES, LOGOS, ICONS AND MORE.

STAGE 1: THE THEME:
The theme needed to be technical rather than just flashy. We planned on a gadget display. We were not supposed to reveal the software secrets. So Shodan, good at vector designing and texturing created a TFT screen. This TFT Screen needed to be special without much buttons but still having the egdy look of an unseen gadget. We got the desired output.




STAGE 2: THE EFFECTS:
We had four lines of text which described about softwares of today and what we are to deliver. We wanted the texts to go special over the display. A simple fade ina nd fade off would really be injustice. So why not give a scanning effect which exists only in military examples?, there we were at last after a lot of redisigning. We got a scanline which matched the website theme and we got it placed in the exact point where a military GPS would like it to be. It looked really gorgeous.






STAGE 3: SOPHISTICATION:
Anyone could do this. Am i right? So we dicided to complex it. This is where we got smoke in the background and a text cursor which looked different from normal. Smoke was designed by Shodan and I animated it in such a say that it looked like an AFTEREFFECTS plugin in flash. The smoke came out to be superb and the cursor was just perfect for the display and the effects.



STAGE 4: THE DIMENSION:
We wanted the ending to be sort of "BREAK THE DA VINCI CODE", so we planned to give the audience an idea of the software we were portraying. So I decided to gt 3DS MAX into picture. Now 3DS MAX is worlds best 3D software in terms of architecture, animating and modelling. We got a 3 POINT perspective of a huge cube carrrying the logos of MAC TIGER and MAC LEOPARD on it's faces. This animation was loaded in the climax of the teaser which gave it a cool 'out of the cube' look because of the 3 POINT perspective.



STAGE 5: THE LOADER:
The preloader wasnt so difficult because it was my baby. I had planned this effect very long back but never got a chance to use it. This time Shodan gave me what I wanted - a realistic glass tube. And I made a blubbery fluid gushing to the top as the loading went on. The loader also displayed the file size!! and the amount of data being loaded!!





STAGE 6: THE COUNTDOWN:
Being on the user's perspective isn't that easy. Everytime he opens the site he would see the same animation and efects. So we thought of pouring some 'hope tonic' into it. I developed a dynamic countdown which would run to the target launching date. It showed days remaining, time remaining to the target. Now isn't this giving some relaxation? This can get the audience back to the space after some time.

STAGE 7: OPTIMIZATION:
The most important part of designing for WEB 2.0. Every design needs to be optimised, else the beauty doesnt count. The first version of the teaser was 4MB. It would be real bulky uploading it. We optimised the images, get down PNG's to JPG'S AND BMP'S TO VECTOR GRAPHICS, REDUCED THE BITRATE OF THE MUSIC. And with great care we managed to get a 1.3 MB, undegraded web2delight teaser.




The story ends here. KDX DESIGNS.

CREATIVE ADS - this is my definition for creativity!!

FEEDBACKS BY MY GOOD FRIENDS ON MY WORK FOR WEB2DELIGHT!!

To find out what's it all about, get here:

click on the image to enter www.web2delight.com, where I have created a WEBTEASER using Flash AS 2.0.

Feedbacks on Web2Delight Teaser from Friends :

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Beautifully done. Super Music and effect. kudos!

By Rahul Shetty





Great work.

Some suggestion from my point of view:
- It would be good if the loading page has product snapshot or slideshow as its background.
- I don't think you need total bytes & load bytes, progress bar is more then sufficient in load page
- You can have some sound on loading page, it will bring uniformity between the pages

- In loaded page too it will look nice if you have product snapshot or slideshow
- The OS logo looks dull.

By Girish Kollari





Hey dudes, good job.. its nice.. keep it up..:)

By Vishwas M. N




Too Good man :)

By Raghavendra Shet





Hi,
Just now i saw the below sent link went through it... nice one...
Is this related to the Web delight project or something different?

By Chaitra