Need help switching to AS3.0? Check out the Migration Cookbook
A lot of Flash developers are still using ActionScript 2.0 to code their Flash based projects and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, ActionScript 3.0 gives you lots of benefits. For instance, the performance of ActionScript 3.0 based applications is far greater than AS2.0 based apps and you also get a ton of new Flash Player APIs and community libraries.
Today, we launched a new ActionScript technology center on the Devnet site with links to a variety of resources and tutorials. The Migration Cookbook is a good place to start. There’s also a downloadable PDF version that will get you up to speed with ActionScript 3.0 in no time.
Flash on!
Video tutorial: Use Flex for your ActionScript coding for Flash CS4
There are a couple of ways you can use Flex and Flash together. I’ve already showed you a couple of those in previous tutorials. In this video, I’ll show you how to use the SWC files created by a Flex library project in Flash CS4. That way, you can have an ActionScript developer work in Flex who can then hand off compiled SWC files to a Flash designer.
Video tutorial: Use the Flex webservice component in Flash CS4 projects
In this video, I’ll show you how you can use the webservice component from the Flex framework in your Flash CS4 projects. If you’re missing the webservice component in Flash, just use the one in the Flex framework.
UPDATE: My sincere apologies. There is an error in my code which I did not explain in the video.
Line 10 should not read myWebService.load but myWebService.loadWSDL.
I do remember we recorded this one twice and I fear that that’s where the mixup happened. Please download the working FLA below.
Download the FLA file.
Video tutorial: Introduction to Adobe’s mobile platform
Adobe’s mobile platform has become a lot more interesting for Flash developers this week. Instead of having to open up the Flash Player on your device to watch the Flash content you created, you can now package your application using the Mobile Packager and distribute your application as an SIS-file for Symbian S60 or CAB-file for Window Mobile phones. Your users can now download and install your Flash based application on their mobile device just like any other application they install. What’s even cooler is that we also package a Flash Version Checker together with your application. As soon as the user launches the application, the Flash Version Checker is going to check if the Flash Player is installed and if it is the correct version. If not, it’s going to download and install the Flash Lite runtime seamlessly. Exactly like you would do on a PC and exactly as it should be. Check out Andrew Shorten’s blog post on the installation process.
I’ve recorded a little video that walks you through the process and will be doing more videos on how to build mobile applications soon.
Video tutorial: Create Flex container components with Flash CS4
In this video I show you how to make a Flex container component with Flash CS4 and the Flex Component Kit for Flash.
The Flex Component Kit for Flash is incredibly powerful and allows you to combine your Flash design/development skills with the power of the Flex framework.
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How to use the new Text Layout Framework
My colleague Mihai Corlan just published an excellent article on how to use the new Text Layout Framework.
The Text Layout Framework (released on Labs) is an extensible library, built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10 (and also available in AIR 1.5), which delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for rich, sophisticated and innovative typography on the web.
Go check it out on Mihai’s blog.
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